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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting article regarding the Democrats' trans problem.

Based on this, I dont think Democrats stand a chance until 2032.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/democratic-party-transgender-ideology-gavin-newsom

California governor Gavin Newsom surprised many recently when he labeled transgender-identified male athletes’ participation in women’s sports “deeply unfair.” The forum, a podcast discussion with MAGA activist Charlie Kirk, was almost as striking as the statement itself.

But Newsom’s comments were conspicuously not a full-throated repudiation of gender ideology. They merely reflect a new trend within the Democratic Party that involves expressing public skepticism of transgender ideology while remaining unable to act against it.

This apparent mismatch between rhetoric and action is not just political expediency; it’s a structural problem. The Democratic Party increasingly finds itself in a balancing act: acknowledging how unpopular its activist class has become but remaining dependent on it for funding, organizing, and electoral mobilization. As long as Democrats are unable to break with their fringe, Republicans will keep using gender ideology as a stand-in for a broader critique of Democrats as a party that cannot be trusted to govern competently.

The Democratic base is not committed to the liberal line on transgender issues. A January New York Times poll, in fact, found that more than two-thirds of Democrats—and 79 percent of Americans—oppose allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports. The political risk in disagreeing should be obvious.

Yet, when Republicans forced a Senate vote last week on a bill to bar biological males from female athletics, not a single Democrat broke ranks. Even Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, the Left’s purported blue-collar truth-teller, didn’t budge. Though he has diverged from his party on immigration and Israel, he toed the line, casting trans-identified athletes as innocent children caught in a “political maelstrom.” Michigan senator Elissa Slotkin struck a similar note on Meet the Press, saying the issue should be left to local communities.
 
The refusal to moderate reveals where the real power lies within the Democratic Party. Though elected officials must win over voters every few years, they rely on the party’s activist class every day. Progressive NGOs, donor networks, and advocacy organizations exert enormous influence over Democratic primaries and policymaking—and they have zero interest in compromising on gender ideology. As a result, elected officials are incentivized to move away from majority opinion and toward ideological purity.

As Ruy Teixeira and John Judis argue in Where Have All the Democrats Gone?, the party’s reliance on educated, activist-minded elites has alienated working-class and nonwhite voters. But for activists, staking out extreme positions is a feature, not a bug. It’s how they raise money, rally supporters, and consolidate control over the party’s policy apparatus.

In 2020, Newsom signed California’s Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, which allows male inmates who identify as female to be housed in women’s prisons. California continues to permit males to participate in female sports and is actively fighting the federal government on this issue, despite Newsom’s podcast-friendly talk of “fairness.” In his conversation with Kirk, Newsom claimed that no one in his office has ever used the term “Latinx,” yet his own past statements prove otherwise.[/quote]

Im not sure why this article suggests “moderates” feel pressure from progressive activists and funding and vote against their own morals to allow men to compete in women’s sports. I think the reality is that the “moderates” don’t exist and they fully support this unpopular position. Federman is a perfect example. Why should we believe he is willing to fight against progressive pressure to support Israel yet is unable to do so to support female athletes and vulnerable female prisoners? No. He simply supports the trans ideology and should acknowledge that instead of lying to voters.[/quote]
I think you're close, but as demonstrated by the swift pivot that unprincipled idiot, Newsom, has made, the Democrats pushing the leftist Men's Rights movement that is trans ideology know full well that all its tenets are false, exploitative lies. They just think women and children are expendable and they don't feel guilt taking vast sums from donors to continue allowing men with personality disorders to erode our rights. [/quote]

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