Representative Sarah McBride

I've tried to look at other examples to learn from, and I haven't been able to find someone who has entered Congress as a first when the identity that makes them a first is at the center of political debate and the district they represent isn't significantly or predominantly made up of that identity.

I've tried to look at other examples to learn from, and I haven't been able to find someone who has entered Congress as a first when the identity that makes them a first is at the center of political debate and the district they represent isn't significantly or predominantly made up of that identity.

I've tried to look at other examples to learn from, and I haven't been able to find someone who has entered Congress as a first when the identity that makes them a first is at the center of political debate and the district they represent isn't significantly or predominantly made up of that identity.

I think we are experiencing a significant moment of regression culturally in this country on all issues of gender. Public opinion is worse now than it was on almost every issue than it was five years ago. Meaning what? To what questions, for example? Almost every conceivable question on transgender rights. There are still trans rights issues that have majority support, but...

I think we are experiencing a significant moment of regression culturally in this country on all issues of gender. Public opinion is worse now than it was on almost every issue than it was five years ago. Meaning what? To what questions, for example? Almost every conceivable question on transgender rights. There are still trans rights issues that have majority support, but...

I think we are experiencing a significant moment of regression culturally in this country on all issues of gender. Public opinion is worse now than it was on almost every issue than it was five years ago. Meaning what? To what questions, for example? Almost every conceivable question on transgender rights. There are still trans rights issues that have majority support, but...

Every single poll I have seen shows less support now than there was five or six years ago on pretty much every issue, from non-discrimination protections, which still maintain majority support, military participation, which still maintains majority support, to other issues that either don't have, never have had, or now don't have majority support.

Every single poll I have seen shows less support now than there was five or six years ago on pretty much every issue, from non-discrimination protections, which still maintain majority support, military participation, which still maintains majority support, to other issues that either don't have, never have had, or now don't have majority support.

Every single poll I have seen shows less support now than there was five or six years ago on pretty much every issue, from non-discrimination protections, which still maintain majority support, military participation, which still maintains majority support, to other issues that either don't have, never have had, or now don't have majority support.

And I think that there are a couple of reasons for that. One, it's a sustained right-wing movement. disinformation, misinformation, and fear-mongering campaign, that has an effect. And I think one of the things that people would say in 2015, 2016 to me is, oh my goodness, it feels like we're moving so quickly on trans rights, in a good way, right? And we'd praise it.

And I think that there are a couple of reasons for that. One, it's a sustained right-wing movement. disinformation, misinformation, and fear-mongering campaign, that has an effect. And I think one of the things that people would say in 2015, 2016 to me is, oh my goodness, it feels like we're moving so quickly on trans rights, in a good way, right? And we'd praise it.

And I think that there are a couple of reasons for that. One, it's a sustained right-wing movement. disinformation, misinformation, and fear-mongering campaign, that has an effect. And I think one of the things that people would say in 2015, 2016 to me is, oh my goodness, it feels like we're moving so quickly on trans rights, in a good way, right? And we'd praise it.

And my reason for that was, I think, I said at the time, and I still think this is true, I think there's sort of a transfer of momentum from the LGB to the T, from marriage equality to trans rights, where people in 2015, 2016, right after marriage equality became the law of the land, They went, you know, I remember being wrong on marriage.

And my reason for that was, I think, I said at the time, and I still think this is true, I think there's sort of a transfer of momentum from the LGB to the T, from marriage equality to trans rights, where people in 2015, 2016, right after marriage equality became the law of the land, They went, you know, I remember being wrong on marriage.

And my reason for that was, I think, I said at the time, and I still think this is true, I think there's sort of a transfer of momentum from the LGB to the T, from marriage equality to trans rights, where people in 2015, 2016, right after marriage equality became the law of the land, They went, you know, I remember being wrong on marriage.

And so there was that lesson of just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that you won't ultimately support it. And they kind of took that lesson and transferred it at the time to Trans Rights. And I think what it did was it created a false sense of security and It created a dynamic where public opinion was sort of a mile wide but an inch deep.

And so there was that lesson of just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that you won't ultimately support it. And they kind of took that lesson and transferred it at the time to Trans Rights. And I think what it did was it created a false sense of security and It created a dynamic where public opinion was sort of a mile wide but an inch deep.

And so there was that lesson of just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that you won't ultimately support it. And they kind of took that lesson and transferred it at the time to Trans Rights. And I think what it did was it created a false sense of security and It created a dynamic where public opinion was sort of a mile wide but an inch deep.

It was sort of a house built on sand in some ways. I think that because of that, we perhaps as a community didn't do enough public education to build the foundation that the gay rights part of the movement had built when they got to 2010, 2012, 2014, with progress on the issue of marriage, where that public support was rooted in a knowledge foundation, an understanding of who gay people were.

It was sort of a house built on sand in some ways. I think that because of that, we perhaps as a community didn't do enough public education to build the foundation that the gay rights part of the movement had built when they got to 2010, 2012, 2014, with progress on the issue of marriage, where that public support was rooted in a knowledge foundation, an understanding of who gay people were.