According to the Boston Globe, the Massachusetts Democratic Party has announced that Rep. Seth Moulton has made several statements accusing the party of supporting transgender participation in women’s sports. They reported that they were planning a rebellion against members of the House of Representatives.
Salem Democratic City Committee Chair Liz Blood told the Globe that she has heard from “several” people in the area who are considering running against him in Massachusetts’ 6th Congressional District.
“We’ll find someone who can play against him and win,” Brad said.
Ms Moulton is up for re-election in 2026, but has come under intense criticism from members of her own state and party after speaking out against her party’s stance on transgender athletes in women’s sport during last week’s election. It becomes. New York Times article. Mr Moulton has since doubled down on his comments in several interviews, drawing increasing backlash from party members.
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Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA) spoke to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on July 9, 2020. Ask questions about “roles related to execution”. in washington d.c. (Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Salem City Councilman Kyle Davis, who is planning a pro-transgender rally in front of Moulton’s office this Sunday, told Fox News Digital that he is actively contributing to another candidate running against Moulton. He said he intended to do so and even called for the lawmaker’s resignation by 2026.
“I certainly want Seth Moulton to resign, and I will stand with the Democrats and LGBT allies who are running against him,” Davis said.
Moulton’s initial comments on the matter were rooted in his status as the father of two daughters. In television interviews on CNN and MSNBC, the Democratic Party took a firm stance and did not offer any apologies.
But Moulton also said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital’s Liz Elkind that there are others within the Democratic Party who agree with him.
“While a few, maybe just a handful, of MPs have spoken out against this comment, there are many more who have come up to me personally to express their gratitude,” Moulton said. There are a lot of them,” he said.
Moulton also said he would welcome a challenger from within his own party in 2026.
“This is a democracy. If you want to run against me, do it,” Moulton said, but added: “It doesn’t really help you win elections.”
“What we have to do is defeat the Republicans, not our fellow Democrats.”
Democratic lawmakers who previously voted in favor of legislation allowing transgender participation in women’s sports publicly denounced their support for the concept in the weeks leading up to Election Day. They include Reps. Colin Allred and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, and Rep. Mary Peltola of Alaska.
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Rep. Tom Suozzi (D.N.Y.) also spoke out against transgender inclusion in the same New York Times article as Moulton.
In April, the Biden-Harris administration passed sweeping reforms to Title IX aimed at strengthening gender identity protections in schools and colleges. It clarified that Title IX’s prohibition on “sex” discrimination in schools covers discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation, and “pregnancy or related conditions.”
And although the administration has argued that the regulations do not address eligibility for athletic competition, multiple experts told Fox News Digital in June that ultimately biological male participation in women’s sports will increase. We have provided evidence that it will increase.
The Democratic Party proposed an amendment to the Equality Act, introduced in 2019, that would “force public schools to allow athletes who identify as biologically male and transgender to participate on girls’ sports teams.” We are making a joint proposal.
In March 2023, Democrats proposed a resolution advocating for a transgender bill of rights and “recognizing it is the duty of the federal government to develop and implement a transgender bill of rights.”
After multiple states filed lawsuits and enacted their own laws to address the issue, the U.S. Supreme Court in August voted 5-4 to block the Biden administration’s sweeping changes to Title IX, allowing states to rejected an urgent request to enforce the law. that.
But thanks to the work of Democratic judges, these reforms will not be completely blocked. At the high school level, multiple Obama-era federal judges have ruled allowing transgender participation in girls’ sports. Judge Randia McCafferty of New Hampshire and Judge M. Hannah Lauck of Virginia ruled earlier this year to allow biological males to play on high school girls’ soccer and tennis teams. Both justices were appointed by Mr. Obama in the early 2010s.
President Trump has proposed a complete ban on transgender participation in women’s and girls’ sports, and he and other Republicans opposed Democrats in recent elections on their way to regaining white supremacy. It was an issue in the election campaign, which fiercely criticized the faction. House of Representatives, Senate, House of Representatives.
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2020 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and Massachusetts 6th District Congressman Seth Moulton speaks during the Democratic National Committee’s Summer Conference in San Francisco, California on August 23, 2019. He announced that he was ending his campaign. (Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)
“People think this is exactly the kind of discussion we need, and it’s not just about transgender issues, it’s also about the economy. Why are we so at odds with the American people on the economy when we have proposed a bipartisan immigration deal? ” Moulton told Fox News Digital.
“Democrats seem to have a lot of good solutions for working Americans, yet we’re really out of touch. So we have to ask ourselves, why are so many people across America working? Have you lost contact with him?”
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