Democrat politicians are betraying their own voters on trans sports issue

So it probably wouldn't surprise you that she is seething at a certain political party right now.What might surprise you, though — is that that political party is her own.As OutKick’s Jackson Thompson reported, only two Democrats showed up to Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on protecting women's sports, and both left within an hour. The party's leaders weren't on hand to hear testimony from witnesses arguing the need to separate biological males and females in athletic competition, and they called no witnesses of their own.Protesters opposing transgender athletes competing in women's sports gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan.

13, 2026, as two cases about transgender girls' participation in girls' and women's sports teams are heard inside.(Heather Diehl/Getty Images)DEMOCRATS STAY QUIET ON NEXT STEPS AFTER SUPREME COURT TRANSGENDER SPORTS RULINGSome might say this was an effort to dismiss a Republican talking point designed to rile up the GOP base.

But Chadbourne, who regularly attends rallies in support of girls having their own spaces, will tell you that the Democrats are alienating their own constituents."They're eroding their base," said Chadbourne, who founded Women are Real — a grassroots women's group she says is about 65 percent Democrat."You would think four years into this I would be prepared for them to continue to die on this hill.

However, I again was just struck with how deranged this whole thing was...they didn't even want to argue their case for why boys should be in girls sports."It's no secret that Republican voters are largely against the inclusion of trans athletes in girls and women's sports.What might be less known is that most Democrat voters are, too.A New York Times poll from last year showed that 67 percent of people who lean Dem oppose the mixing of the two sexes in sports, while a Pew poll said 55 percent of Democrats would be "not too" or "not at all" comfortable with athletes playing on...