Yes, and several dem candidates for the midterms have ran anti-trans ads, especially when it comes to sports bans - the classic entry point for wider transphobic sentiment, as it seems like a minor issue at a superficial glance, but fully necessitates buying into the central premise of not recognizing trans people in our lived gender. They're now at the point were some of them have switched from talking about trans women in women's sports to the GOP wording of "men in women's sports", which should make it abundantly clear how this will continue

Gruesome Newsom is spearheading a transphobic Dem normalization push