Sarah McBride
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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By every objective metric, support for trans rights is worse now than it was six or seven years ago.
And that's not isolated to just trans issues.
I think if you look across issues of gender right now, you have seen a regression, right?
Marriage equality support is actually lower now than it was a couple of years ago in a recent poll.
We also see a regression around support for whether women should have the same opportunities as men compared to 5, 10, 15 years ago.
And so there's a larger regression from a gender perspective that I think is impacting this regression on trans rights.
But I think it has been more acute, more significant in the trans rights space.
I think, just candidly, I think we lost the art of persuasion.
We lost the art of change-making over the last couple of years.
We're not in this position because of trans people.
There was a very clear reason
well-coordinated, well-funded effort to demonize trans people, to stake out positions on fertile ground for anti-trans politics, and to have those be the battlegrounds rather than some of the areas where there's more public support.
We're not in this position because of the movement or the community, but clearly what we've been doing over the last several years has not been working to stave it off or continue the progress that we were making eight, nine, 10 years ago.
And I think a lot of it can be traced to a false sense of security that I think the LGBTQ movement and the progressive movement writ large began to feel in sort of the post-marriage world.
I think there was a sense of cultural momentum that was sort of this unending cresting wave.
I think there is this sense of sort of a cultural victory that
It lulled us into a false sense of security and I think in many ways shut down needed conversations.
And I think, you know, the support that we saw for trans rights in 2016, 2017, it was sort of a mirage of support in some ways because I think there was in the post-marriage world, there was a transfer of support.
from the LGB to the T, I think for two reasons.
One, I think people said, well, the T is part of the acronym, so I support gay people, so I'll support trans people.
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