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Rep. Sarah McBride Tells Dems To Double Down On Totalitarian Genderwoo

Just make it nicer, harder to pin down. Also, switch the topic to billionaires

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Matt Osborne
Aug 21, 2025
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Representative Sarah McBride in interview.

Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride went on At Our Table, the podcast of former DNC chair Jaime Harrison, to encourage Democrats to speak up in defense of transgender sports cheats. McBride complained that Democrats “don’t know how to respond, not because they don’t know what they believe or how they feel, but because they feel like there is no way to respond in a way that doesn’t result in everyone yelling at them.”

While it is true that transgender activists will immediately destroy any Democrat who dares to suggest that men should not be in women’s sports, it is also true that Democrats invoke the fury of the masses by taking the incredibly unpopular position that males belong in female sports to any degree whatsoever, anywhere, at any time.

McBride thinks there is middle ground. “You can grapple with concerns around, for instance, trans people participating in sports, acknowledge that there are very real questions out there. But who is best able to answer those questions about how to bala…

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