From Fox News: Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., appeared to switch gears as to who’s to blame for pushback against transgender issues, saying it stems from a “well-funded” and “well-coordinated, right-wing effort” on Monday.
Katie Couric spoke to the transgender lawmaker on her show “Next Question with Katie Couric” about rollbacks on transgender policies, such as barring biologically male athletes from competing in women’s sports and prohibiting gender transition treatments for children.
Couric asked McBride whether the “pendulums maybe swung too far” and caused backlash against trans Americans.
“I don’t think the pendulum swung too far,” McBride answered. “I think more than anything else, the reason why this has happened is because there was a well-funded, well-coordinated effort to fearmonger and scapegoat around a vulnerable community.”
McBride, who is a biological male, claimed that “right-wing actors” took advantage of the vulnerability to “demonize” the entire transgender community.
“It’s just sort of the reality of new progress, right? It’s always the most fragile at the start. And then that is met most explicitly by a well-funded, well-coordinated, right-wing effort to demonize, fearmonger, and scapegoat that community. It’s had toxic consequences,” McBride claimed.
This is a complete flip from what McBride said in June 2024 when speaking to Ezra Klein of The New York Times.
When asked whether the Democratic party may have overplayed its hand regarding trans issues, McBride had admitted:
“I think that’s an accurate reflection of the overplaying of the hand in some ways — that we as a coalition went to Trans 201, Trans 301, when people were still at a very much Trans 101 stage,” McBride said in June.
McBride added, “And I think some of the cultural mores and norms that started to develop around inclusion of trans people were probably premature for a lot of people. We became absolutist — not just on trans rights but across the progressive movement — and we forgot that in a democracy we have to grapple with where the public authentically is and actually engage with it. Part of this is fostered by social media.”
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Transgender lawmaker changes course, claims ‘right-wing effort’ to blame for trans backlashhttps://t.co/xI4YPu54ey
— Kazum Howell (@stefkule) November 19, 2025
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