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Top Moulton aide quits after transgender athlete remarks
The Hill ^ | 11/08/24 | Brooke Migdon

Posted on 11/16/2024 12:58:56 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

A top aide to Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton (Mass.) resigned after comments Moulton made about transgender athletes were panned by state Democrats and LGBTQ groups.

Matt Chilliak, Moulton’s campaign manager and director of his “Serve America” political committee, departed Moulton’s office late Thursday, The Boston Globe reported. A spokesperson for Moulton’s office did not return a request for comment on Chilliak’s departure.

Responding to President-elect Trump’s win Tuesday, Chilliak wrote on social platform X, “Millions of Americans today showed that they hate immigrants and transgender people more than they fear fascism.”

In a New York Times story about Democratic finger-pointing on Thursday, Moulton was quoted as saying his party had leaned too heavily into identity politics, allowing Trump and Republicans to sail to a decisive victory.

“Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face,” he said. “I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”

A second House Democrat, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), told The New York Times that transgender girls, whom he called “biological boys,” should not be able to participate in female sports.

Moulton, first elected to Congress in 2015, is a member of the Congressional Equality Caucus, which promotes LGBTQ equality in the House and has strongly opposed efforts to bar trans athletes from sports teams that best align with their gender identity. Moulton’s 2024 reelection campaign was endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: democrats; failedmaleathletes; mattchilliak; sethmoulton; sports; trans
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1 posted on 11/16/2024 12:58:56 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Somebody please tell him he’s in the wrong party.


2 posted on 11/16/2024 1:00:10 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It’s almost like saying he’s pro-life in the Democratic Party.


3 posted on 11/16/2024 1:02:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: DIRTYSECRET

No, let him figure it out for himself. It’s the only way.


4 posted on 11/16/2024 1:03:38 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Exactly.


5 posted on 11/16/2024 1:05:19 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Obviously.


6 posted on 11/16/2024 1:05:29 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“...that transgender girls, whom he called “biological boys,”


Well, the boys pretending to be girls are, in fact, ‘biological boys’, but noting that is ‘transphobic’ in their world.


7 posted on 11/16/2024 1:05:35 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Just thinking the same thing. He’s pretty liberal but could be Dim defector in the forseeable future.


8 posted on 11/16/2024 1:06:18 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: DIRTYSECRET
If he didn't have a personal stake in it, it sounds like he would still toe the party line. That's hypocrisy rather than standing up for your beliefs, like a relative of mine who would be the first to put up an "all people welcome" sign but curse about the Somalis who were plopped down in her neighborhood.
9 posted on 11/16/2024 1:07:22 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Now unburdened by the Biden/Harris administration that has been.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Good for him and good for Tom Suozzi. If they could only teach some of that common sense to more of their fellow Democrats.


10 posted on 11/16/2024 1:07:31 PM PST by Allegra (Deplorable garbage)
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To: Allegra

Massachusetts representatives do not have common sense.


11 posted on 11/16/2024 1:11:30 PM PST by bobcat62
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To: MinorityRepublican

They’re all queers.


12 posted on 11/16/2024 1:12:40 PM PST by Fledermaus (The election is over! We won big! So why are so many here nick picking, moaning, and whining? )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Mike Johnson should invite these two to lunch.

Marko


13 posted on 11/16/2024 1:13:14 PM PST by markoman (Cautiously cynical)
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To: MinorityRepublican
There's such a vibe shift happening now that's so different than 2016. It's like our decade-long national nightmare of wokeism and social justice is finally over.

People are just so done with this crap.

14 posted on 11/16/2024 1:15:39 PM PST by Drew68 (Today I'm thoroughly enjoying eating crow salted with liberal tears. Best meal I've ever had!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I wonder if things would have been different if Matt had left Moulton’s office early on Thursday.

The butterfly chaos theory.


15 posted on 11/16/2024 1:27:11 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: DIRTYSECRET

No, he’s not in the wrong party. Setting himself up to be the fake Dem ‘moderate’ in the ‘28 Dem primaries.


16 posted on 11/16/2024 1:27:31 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Good on you, Mr. Moulton. You are right. Stick to your guns.


17 posted on 11/16/2024 1:29:24 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Trump should nominate him for something even if he doesn’t switch.


18 posted on 11/16/2024 1:53:16 PM PST by scrabblehack
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“Millions of Americans today showed that they hate immigrants and transgender people more than they fear fascism.”

Three of my four grandparents were immigrants, but they went through the gauntlet of medical tests and screenings on Ellis Island, in order to receive permission to enter. Transgender people can be transgender without running over girls on a playing field, or destroying their hopes to excel athletically.

Oh, and fascism? I’d fear it more if the supposed threat weren’t a figment of an overwrought leftard imagination, and if the leftards didn’t use fascistic tactics themselves.

But believe your own fantasy and leave the country, already. Put up or shut up.


19 posted on 11/16/2024 2:04:46 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: jjotto

The LGBT lobby is going to ban and cancel him—and the vast majority of his fellow Democrats are going to start viciously attacking him.

They just can’t help themselves.

Dissent in today’s Democrat party is absolutely prohibited.

He is going nowhere.


20 posted on 11/16/2024 2:09:08 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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