“We cannot protect trans rights and so many other things if we don’t start winning elections. You can’t win the majority if you ignore their views,» the congressman said.
Rep. Seth Moulton has doubling down on his comments about transgender issues after a group of local activists protested over the weekend outside his Salem office.
Moulton, who represents much of the North Shore, has been under fire since last week, when his comments about transgender youth were highlighted in a New York Times article about reactions to Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss in the presidential election.
“Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face,” Moulton said in the piece titled “Devastated Democrats Play the Blame Game, and Stare at a Dark Future” published Thursday.
“I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that,” he continued.
Moulton, who has represented Massachusetts’s 6th congressional district since 2015, took to Facebook on Sunday to defend his comments.
He said three types of people have contacted him about his statements: people who agree with him, people who reach out with “thoughtful, constructive feedback,” and people who make “no effort to engage constructively.
