Rep. Seth Moulton, Democrat of Mass., appears to have been financially rewarded for taking a stand against transgender athletes in women’s sports, but his critics aren’t backing down.
Moulton raised $547,153 between Election Day in November and the end of 2024, according to the Boston Globe. This figure is 10 times what it raised during the same period in 2022, and 80% of donations were $100 or less.
“I think most Democrats want to put this issue aside, so we don’t continue to lose,” Moulton told the outlet.
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The congressman was one of the most vocal Democrats to speak out against transgender inclusion in girls’ and women’s sports following his party’s electoral defeat in the White House, House of Representatives and Congress. Senate.
Moulton first made his comments, indicting his party’s stance on transgender inclusion, in a Nov. 7 New York Times article, just two days after the election, then repeatedly repeated that stance amid negative reactions from members of his own party.
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Moulton’s comments sparked a pro-transgender rally outside his office on November 17, and now a second rally is planned outside his office on Tuesday, January 28.
Salem City Councilman Kyle Davis, who organized the rallies, previously told PK Press Club Digital that there is a large Democratic contingent in Massachusetts that plans to elect Moulton in the 2026 primary.
Even though Moulton has publicly disavowed his support for transgender inclusion in girls’ and women’s sports, he still voted against a bill that would help combat the phenomenon last week.
Moulton joined 206 Democratic representatives who voted against the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act on January 14. Moulton previously co-sponsored the Equality Act and the Transgender Bill of Rights, both of which would allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.
U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., speaks during a House subcommittee hearing on railroads, pipelines and hazardous materials. (Getty Images)
On Tuesday, two Democrats joined the Republican majority to vote in favor of the bill: Reps. Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas, and Vicente Gonzalez, Democrat of Texas. But Moulton, although he is now opposed to transgender inclusion, voted against the bill on Tuesday, saying he did not want children to be “subjected to the invasive privacy violations that this bill allows of law.”
That argument was similar to one made by many other Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., insisting it would empower child predators to perform genital examinations on young people. girls.
The bill passed the House with bipartisan support and is under consideration in the Senate, and some Democratic voters have chosen to leave the party in response to their representatives’ argument about predators. children.
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., questions Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley during a House Armed Services Committee hearing , July 9, 2020. (Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
A recent New York Times/Ipsos survey found that the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, do not believe transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Of the 2,128 people surveyed, 79% said biological males who identify as female should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.
Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or Democratic-leaning, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.
Shortly after the November elections, a national exit poll conducted by the legislative action committee Concerned Women for America found that 70% of moderate voters considered the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls’ and women’s sports and to transgender boys and men using girls’ and women’s toilets” as important to them.
And 6% said it was the most important question of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
