Sarah McBride, the only openly transgender US representative, expressed concerns about the regression of trans rights and broader LGBTQ+ support in the US. She believes that left-leaning activists have lost effective change-making strategies, resulting in decreased public support for rights such as marriage equality and women's opportunities. McBride also criticized Republicans for using trans issues as a distraction from their own failures. She emphasized the need for activists to engage authentically with public sentiment rather than pushing forward without understanding the broader cultural context.
[It] allowed [them] the right to say: 'We're punishing trans people because of their actions', rather than, 'We're going after innocent bystanders'.
By every objective metric, support for trans rights is worse now than it was six or seven years ago.
Some of the cultural mores and norms that started to develop around inclusion of trans people were probably premature for a lot of people.
We became absolutist, not just on trans rights but across the progressive movement, and we forgot that in a democracy we have to grapple with where the public authentically is.
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