No, supporting trans rights doesn’t cost elections
Opinion: Democrats don’t lose by supporting trans rights. They lose when they fail to speak up, argues LPAC’s Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza.
September 23, 2025
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Opinion: Democrats don’t lose by supporting trans rights. They lose when they fail to speak up, argues LPAC’s Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza.
Trump and his allies are pushing a radical agenda that threatens our democracy, targeting trans communities while fueling violence and oppression, writes Imara Jones.
Montana courts overruled a trans health care ban in 2023, but it’s making a comeback.
The former president has repeated a claim that schools are giving gender-affirmation operations to students and sending them home another gender.
As states move to exclude trans people from using certain public spaces, courtroom accessibility is key to ensuring that jury pools reflect the makeup of the country, experts say.
“We’ve seen over the last several years a militant effort in red states by the government to discriminate against trans folks, in particular, and the broader LGBTQ community, and even to go so far as to try to deny trans people's existence,” said Mike Zamore, national director of policy and governmental affairs at the ACLU.
So far in 2024, there are already 400+ bills targeting transgender people. This map assesses the risk of the worst laws passing.