Posted on 09/20/2026 3:28:29 AM PDT by Libloather
A slew of Democratic candidates running in states and districts won by President Donald Trump are breaking with the party on transgender rights issues, especially on the question of allowing transgender girls to play school sports, often in the face of criticism from the party’s base.
The most recent was Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who is trying to win reelection in a northwestern Ohio district Trump won by seven points in 2024. Kaptur, an 80-year-old who has spent most of her career in Congress as a stalwart populist liberal, touts her vote for a Republican bill that would require schools to obtain parental consent before changing students’ pronouns on official forms.
“I voted with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools, because parents know what’s best for their kids,” Kaptur says in the 30-second ad. “And boys should not play in girls’ sports.”
Kaptur’s aggressive statement comes on the heels of similar positioning from two other Ohioans, former Sen. Sherrod Brown and gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, as well as from the party’s senatorial and gubernatorial candidates in Iowa and Texas.
The positioning is not sitting well with some of the party’s liberal supporters. When gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand laid out his stance during a town hall in the university town of Iowa City this week, citing “fairness” and a broader desire to avoid culture war issues, a crowd of 1,000 met him with silence. A lone attendee yelled out that Sand was a “coward.”
In Ohio, the state’s leading LGBTQ rights group changed Acton’s candidate rating from an “A” to “pending” before downgrading it to a “B.”
The debate over how Democrats should approach transgender rights after a presidential election in which their largely unflinching support for them was turned into a political weapon against them...
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Don’t believe them. Marcy Kaptur, another octogenarian, has been playing this game of deceit for a very long time.
It’s the democratic version of taqiyya ...
It’s the democratic version of taqiyya ...
Alinksy rules.
Not much of a bench if that is the best they can do.
The GOP isn't the only party that can't choose good candidates.
Her lips are moving. Means she is either lying to get elected or a very poor ventriloquist.
This time Kaptur wins easily in a Democrat year for the Buckeyes.
Is there that many more buckeye Democrats or is it GOP apathy?
Is there that many more buckeye Democrats or is it GOP apathy?
Sorry, slow and getting 504 timeout messages again.
Mmmmmmm......I love good news in the morning:
The debate is on-—over how Democrats should approach ‘transgender rights’ after a presidential election in which their largely ‘unflinching support’ for them was turned into a ‘political weapon’ against them.
I would not believe anything Democrats say...
No they aren't. They're trying to cling like a dingleberry to the power they've craved all their lives.
The Democrats got burned by their respect for “experts”.
The political “experts” took polls on the most important issue and the Transgender topic did not even make the top ten.
As a result the Democrats thought they could ignore it—and get away with it.
What the “experts” got wrong is that some issues are not what they appear to be—they are “meta issues”—issues about issues and not just about one topic.
The Trans topic is a cultural issue—symbolic of all cultural issues.
The Democrats have turned much of the country into a cultural wasteland—and the Trans nightmare is symbolic of that.
More good news........thx for the political insider stuff.
Guess the tent ain’t that big after all?
Some Democrats are waking up to this mentally ill fiction?
Has she finally grown a brain?
Send them to Muslim roof top parties.
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