Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., appears to have been financially rewarded for taking a stance against transgender athletes in women’s sports, but his critics are not backing down.
Moulton raised $547,153 from Election Day in November through the end of 2024, according to The Boston Globe. That figure is 10 times greater than what it raised in the same period in 2022, and 80% of donations were $100 or less.
“I think most Democrats want to put this issue aside, so we don’t continue to lose,” Moulton told the outlet.
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The congressman was one of the Democrats who spoke out most against the inclusion of transgender people in women’s and girls’ sports after his party’s extensive electoral defeat for the White House, the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Moulton initially made his comments blaming his party’s stance on transgender inclusion in a New York Times article on Nov. 7, just two days after the election, then repeatedly doubled down on that stance amid backlash from those within their own party.
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Moulton’s comments sparked a pro-transgender demonstration outside his office on November 17, and a second demonstration is now planned outside his office on Tuesday, January 28.
Salem City Councilman Kyle Davis, who organized the rallies, previously told Pak Gazette Digital that there is a sizable Democratic contingent in Massachusetts planning to hold the Moulton primary in 2026.
Although Moulton has publicly denied support for transgender inclusion in women’s and girls’ sports, last week he voted against a bill that would help combat it.
Moulton joined 206 Democratic representatives who voted against the Women and Girls in Sports Protection Act on January 14. Moulton previously co-sponsored the Equality Act and the Transgender Bill of Rights, both of which would allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.
U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., speaks during a House Railroad, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee hearing. (Getty Images)
On Tuesday, two Democrats joined the Republican majority in voting for the bill: Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and Vicente González, D-Texas. But Moulton, despite now opposing the inclusion of transgender people, voted against the bill on Tuesday, saying he does not want children to be “subjected to the invasive violations of personal privacy that this bill allows.” “.
That argument was similar to one many other Democrats have made, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., insisting that it would empower to child predators to perform genital examinations on young people. girls.
The bill passed the House with bipartisan support and is moving to the Senate, and some Democratic voters have chosen to leave the party in response to their representatives’ child predator argument.
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., questions Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on July 9, 2020. (Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
A recent New York Times/Ipsos Poll found that the vast majority of Americans, including most Democrats, do not believe transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Of the 2,128 people surveyed, 79% said biological men who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.
Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or Democratic-leaning, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.
Shortly after the November elections, a national exit poll conducted by Concerned Women for America’s legislative action committee found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls’ and women’s sports and transgender boys and men wearing girls’ and women’s bathrooms” as important to them.
And 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
