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November 20, 2024
Politicians and pundits are stoking a backlash to trans rights in the wake of the election. They’re playing a dangerous game.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks onstage during a Pride celebration on June 28, 2023 in Washington, DC.
(Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images for GLAAD)
Donald Trump’s election victory foreshadows an administration that will likely seek to not just dismantle, but destroy, the regulatory state while promoting a narrow vision of what America should be and who should benefit from living here.
But as election results continue to trickle in, it has also become clear that the governing majority needed to achieve these goals may not be as robust as it was projected on election night. Trump failed to win 50 percent of the popular vote, and the GOP’s House and Senate majorities are both razor-thin.
Yet instead of thinking about how this unexpectedly small mandate on how this could be used for their advantage, a subset of Democrats have decided to spend their time saying that the true reason for the 2024 election loss lies with some of their coalition’s most vulnerable members: transgender Americans and the allies that seek to protect their civil rights.
Almost immediately after Trump’s victory, a number…
