Why do you expect so little from your Democratic candidates? Ohio and Iowa are unsafe for trans people under either party now.

In Iowa, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand, Senate candidate Josh Turek and congressional candidates Lindsay James and Sarah Trone Garriott have all distanced themselves from progressive positions on transgender issues.

“I ⁠oppose letting men in women's locker rooms and voted to let parents, not politicians, make decisions for their kids,” Trone Garriott said in a recent ad.

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Gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand told Politico last month that "girls' sports are for girls." And his approach may be working, with polls, opens new tab showing him favored to become the first Democrat to win the governor's race since 2006.

At a recent town hall he said “I tend to agree” with Republicans that transgender women and girls should be barred from female sports teams.

“Coward!” a man in the room shouted in protest.

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Republican Derek Merrin, running to represent the 9th congressional district, released a September 10 ad saying that Democratic incumbent Marcy Kaptur had “voted to let biological men compete against girls in their sports.”

Kaptur, ​who faces an uphill race in her recently redrawn district, countered a week later with an ad saying she had “voted with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools because parents know what’s best for their kids … and boys should not play in girls’ sports.”

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If this is what bipartisan democratic outcomes look like, if this is what you uphold as democracy, then I guess you can count me out. There is zero reason to take up the Republican position on this issue unless you are doing it for the love of the game.

The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. ~Julius Nyerere