Sarah McBride

I will also be honest, it is a byproduct of an approach to navigating these issues that has allowed space for imperfect allies, for people who have questions or concerns about trans people in sports consistent with our gender identity, for people who don't always use the right language, for people who fundamentally believe in the dignity and rights of transgender people.

And this Republican effort to fear monger and scapegoat around us is just

cruel and blatant bullying, who still believe that there are certain questions that need to be answered in public policy about funding and about participation.

If we create enough space for people to remain on the life raft, people will be able to remain on the life raft.

If we have an ever shrinking life raft and we push people off because they aren't with us 100% of the time,

We're going to find ourselves pretty alone on that life raft.

And I think that that's one of the things that people on our side don't always appreciate because there's there's this demand to fight, which is a reasonable demand and something we should do.

But any general who is going into battle would tell you, one, you don't battle on anything.

your opponent's terrain, right?

You don't die on every single little hill.

Yeah.

And you make sure that when you go into battle, you have as many people within your army as possible.

You don't go in with a tiny army that will be defeated in a matter of minutes.

And

I think that the approach that I have tried to take is to keep our party together, to welcome imperfect allies, both as a short-term necessity and as a long-term imperative.

Because if you aren't engaging in conversation with people who enter with goodwill and good intentions and in good faith, but have questions and might disagree with you on some things, there is no way for you to change their hearts and minds in the long run on those issues that you continue to disagree on.

And so I think...

We have real receipts.

Our caucus has real receipts and our commitment to this community.

I think I have real receipts and being a part of that effort to keep people together.