Even if some politicians run away from it.
Don’t take it just from us, the transgender issue had an enormous impact on the elections this November. On the national level, voters rightly blamed Democrats for support of public policies based on misinformation and untethered ideological stances. (Check out DIAG – a group of Democrats fighting this extremism within their party.) Extremist policies such as permitting boys to play on girls teams and hiding gender transitions from parents in schools are bizarre policies that have been adopted by CT’s “Reproductive Rights Caucus” and administrative agencies. These are two of the issues our coalition addressed this year with our Let Kids Be Kids initiative. In February 2024, the coalition’s modest proposals were mocked by some Democrat leaders in Connecticut, including the State Treasurer. Supportive legislators responded quickly to the State Treasurer’s misinformation but not enough Republicans are aware and involved.
Connecticut has been shifting rightward, and polls on November 5 captured it. But CT still lost Republican seats. Nationally however, where the distinction between Democrats and Republicans on the transgender issue was highlighted, Democrats lost. According to a poll of “swing voters”, they broke for Trump because of Democrats emphasis on the cultural issues – including transgenderism in schools. This polling does not exclude Connecticut voters.
Local liberal columnist Dan Haar also listed transgender extremism as one of the reasons for Vice President Harris’s defeat:
Harris lost the culture war
A large number of [Connecticut] voters cited what they called Harris’ extreme views on social-cultural issues such as taxpayer support for gender-affirming care, use of bathrooms, participation in female sports by non-cisgender women and girls and gender education. Ads for Trump included apparent comments by Harris that all prisoners should be entitled to medical care including gender affirmation surgery. Harris failed to clarify or defend her position in this and other culture war issues, preferring instead to wave it off as the ranting of the far right. It was not entirely the ranting of the far right. Some of it was citizens of places such as Southington, Coventry and Torrington, many of them older, looking for answers on a social debate that, rightly or wrongly, has them riled up.
Here is local columnist Chris Powell on the need for Republicans to talk about the Left’s extremism:
The state promotes and coddles transgenderism in schools, pushing boys into girls’ sports and restrooms and requiring boys’ restrooms to stock feminine hygiene products. With policy identical to Connecticut’s, Minnesota famously has Gov. “Tampon Tim” Walz. Less famously, Connecticut has Gov. “Napkin Ned” Lamont. These “woke” policies almost certainly do not have majority support in Connecticut. But even with such easy targets the state’s Republican Party remains too weak to provide consistent and coherent opposition. So the state keeps lurching left.
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