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The moral panic over the existence of trans people isn't just aimed at Republicans, though. Basic legal protections for trans people are now less popular *among Democrats* than they were three years ago. An unconsionable failure of Democratic leadership. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
This steady drumbeat of transphobic agitprop was maybe even more successful than its proponents had hoped. Today, fundamental legal protections for trans people—the same protections the conservative-controlled Court extended in Bostock—are less popular than they were three years ago, according to Pew Research Center data from February 2024. This is true not only among Republican voters, but also among Democrats looking to apportion blame for Harris’s loss. In the aftermath of the 2024 election, some Democratic politicians publicly argued that the party’s support for trans rights contributed to its losses at the ballot box. One Democratic member of Congress went so far as to parrot vile anti-trans talking points to The New York Times, explaining that he did not “want to discriminate against anybody,” but did not believe “biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports.” Back in 2018, YouGov found that 29 percent of Americans thought society had gone “too far in accepting people who are transgender.” Today, that number has increased to 36 percent. Support for explicitly anti-trans policies like bathroom bans, sports bans, and bans on gender-affirming care for young people is stronger than it was as recently as two years ago. Sports bans like those at issue in Hecox and BPJ are especially popular, supported by two-thirds of voters, including 45 percent of Democrats, according to the Pew Research Center.
January 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM