Seth Moulton Sold Out Trans Kids — and Lost His Senate Race:
Running as a progressive, Sen. Ed Markey forced his centrist challenger Rep. Seth Moulton to ...
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Markey Wins Massachusetts Senate Primary Against MoultonSeth Moulton offered a tempered apology in August after Markey criticized his anti-trans remarks during a debate.
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- Ed Markey defeated Seth Moulton on September 1 in Massachusetts’ Democratic Senate primary.
- Moulton had argued Democrats showed too much support for trans rights and offered an apology in August after Markey’s criticism.
- Markey’s campaign emphasized economic inequality, taxing billionaires, green energy, universal health care, and support for trans people.
- A UMass/Amherst poll cited by Erin Reed found 67 percent would be less likely to vote for an anti-trans candidate.
We should have been loving those kids. There’s only 12 trans athletes in the whole of the NCAA. We should have been embracing them.— Sen. Ed Markey (D‑Mass.), on the treatment of transgender youth in sports in the coverage of the Massachusetts Senate primary.
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