Democrats signal willingness to give up on 'sacred' trans issue

 March 7, 2025

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Democrats, under the regime of Joe Biden and Kamala Biden, plunged head-first into an unlimited, unrestricted, uncontained agenda for transgenderism.

Males in girls' showers in schools? No problem. Men in rooms for females on overnight school trips? Sure. Males disrobing and being nude with women in locker rooms? Just fine. In fact, FORCING young girls to share their intimate and private areas with males who claim to be women was standard platform plank material.

But now that might be changing, as the agenda has earned a huge thumbs-down from the American public lately.

In fact, there's been significant backlash after every Democrat who voted recently on a Senate plan to protect females from men who call themselves women in those areas refused to support it.

A report in Axios said one Democrat, Sen. Cory Booker, of New Jersey, recently pointed out, "There are really important issues that we should be discussing on the local level, within sports leagues and within conferences."

The report said it is ardent leftist Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., who is spearheading an effort to consider leaving "the issue of trans athletes playing in women's sports to state and local governments."

The report explained the significance of the apparent change in ideology for Democrats; "Democrats privately admit they need a sharper response to counter Republican attacks on their support for transgender rights, especially when it involves sports."

The "leave-it-to-states" plan is emerging in the Senate, said the report, which described how Baldwin, "feared Republicans were flooding the zone with their attacks without Democrats having a clear and consistent rebuttal."

Her comments have included, "Republicans in Washington are saying they know better than parents and local school districts. They are wrong. I trust parents, schools and local sports leagues to make these decisions for their children."

Just days ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a staunch Democrat who may be looking for higher office, "broke with progressives by saying transgender participation in sports was an 'issue of fairness,'" the report explained.

Booker, in fact, told the publication, "When it comes to sports leagues, they have to find a way to create fairness."

It was Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who said, "Every state and every community is going to come to their own decision on it."

A report at the Daily Caller News Foundation noted, "Democrats' deference to subnational governments on the issue of transgender athletes is a notable departure from their positions on a host of issues — ranging from COVID-19 vaccine mandates to abortion access — where the party advocates for the federal government to determine and impose policies on all 50 states."

But Americans have spoken: A February poll from Gallup found 66% of American adults say transgender athletes should "compete on teams that match their sex assigned at birth." Nearly that many would ban so-called "gender-affirming care," which includes giving chemicals and sometimes disfiguring surgeries to children.

It would be just one agenda point on which Democrats are trying to make their own views align with America's, after a 2024 election in which they delivered landslide-proportion failures in the White House, the Senate, the House and many, many down-ballot races.

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