hotair.com By John Sexton
The Atlantic published a piece yesterday titled “The Democrats Need an Honest Conversation on Gender Identity.” The contents won’t come as a surprise to most Hot Air readers but I’m sure it will to many Democrats reading the Atlantic.
Although most Americans agree that transgender people should not face discrimination in housing and employment, there is nowhere near the same level of support for allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports—which is why Donald Trump kept bringing up the issue. His campaign also barraged swing-state voters and sports fans with ads reminding them that Kamala Harris had previously supported taxpayer-funded gender-reassignment surgery for prisoners. The commercials were effective: The New York Times reported that Future Forward, a pro-Harris super PAC, found that one ad “shifted the race 2.7 percentage points in Mr. Trump’s favor after viewers watched it.” The Harris campaign mostly avoided the subject.
The reasons avoiding the topic didn’t work for Harris is that the Biden administration, of which she is a part, has fully adopted the far left view on this issue. And that meant that Harris would need to say something if she wanted to differentiate herself from those views.
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