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随着共和党重拾2024年竞选时极具杀伤力的攻击武器，数位知名民主党人已调整跨性别议题相关表态
作者：保罗·施坦豪瑟
南卡罗来纳州民主党联邦参议员候选人安妮·安德鲁斯博士似乎正与自己此前反对限制跨性别运动员参加女子体育赛事的立场拉开距离。她在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示，自己反对生理男性参与女子体育赛事，也反对为未成年人进行变性手术。
在民主党力争在中期选举中夺回参众两院控制权之际，安德鲁斯是红蓝摇摆州选情胶着的候选人之一，他们似乎都在调整跨性别议题上的立场。与此同时，共和党正打算再次利用这一高度敏感的议题攻击民主党，这已是他们连续第二个竞选周期打出这张牌。
“我不支持生理男性参加女子体育赛事，也不支持给未成年人做变性手术，”安德鲁斯在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时说道。
安德鲁斯目前与共和党现任参议员达琳·格雷厄姆在共和党票仓南卡罗来纳州展开的中期选战竞争日趋激烈。她在一则新的竞选广告中传递了同样的信息，并补充道：“我希望你们能清楚地听到我的表态。”
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不过，格雷厄姆指责安德鲁斯试图掩盖自己此前在跨性别运动员问题上的立场。格雷厄姆是在今年夏天其兄长、资深参议员林赛·格雷厄姆突然去世后被任命接任参议院席位的。
“多年来，安德鲁斯一直支持生理男性参加女子体育赛事。如今她竞选参议员，却试图掩盖自己的激进过往，”格雷厄姆近日指责道。
格雷厄姆和共和党人援引了安德鲁斯反对2022年南卡罗来纳州一项法案的记录，该法案禁止跨性别运动员参加女子和女童公立学校体育赛事。
“这是一项可耻的法案，对南卡罗来纳州的女性或儿童没有任何保护或支持作用。事实上，它实际上有害无益。我将永远支持跨性别青年，”安德鲁斯当时在社交媒体上发帖写道。
共和党正试图再次将这一议题打造为民主党竞选的软肋。
2024年选举中，共和党成功利用这一议题攻击民主党，前总统唐纳德·特朗普的竞选团队制作广告攻击民主党候选人副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯，宣称“哈里斯支持‘他们/她们’代词，特朗普总统支持你”。
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2024年竞选期间，共和党斥资逾2亿美元投放广告，针对民主党在跨性别议题上的立场展开攻击，这被认为助力共和党取得了压倒性胜利。
最新全国民调显示，多数美国人反对跨性别运动员参加与出生性别不符的体育赛事。
福克斯新闻上月开展的一项全国民调显示，超过四分之三（76%）的受访者支持禁止生理男性参加女子体育赛事，仅有五分之一的人反对。民调显示两党都支持该禁令，90%的共和党人、77%的无党派人士和61%的民主党人都支持该禁令。
由于伊朗战事不得人心、汽油和柴油价格飙升，特朗普和共和党正努力维持脆弱的国会多数席位，他们正日益重施在跨性别议题上的政治策略。
上月举行的共和党中期大会上，特朗普将反跨性别信息描述为该党在选举日前夕推动选民投票率、攻击民主党最有效的竞选工具之一。
“这是我们有史以来最棒的竞选口号之一，”这位总统在达拉斯为期两天的会议上说道。
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大会上其他几位顶级发言人，包括副总统J·D·万斯、议长迈克·约翰逊、众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯，以及参众两院共和党连任竞选主席蒂姆·斯科特参议员和众议员理查德·哈德森，都在演讲中强调了这一议题。
与此同时，围绕该议题的共和党广告已连续第二个竞选周期播出。
但民主党正在调整策略，并学会了反击。
2024年选举失利后，首批调整立场的人士包括加州州长加文·纽瑟姆，这位潜在的2028年民主党总统候选人。2025年初，他称生理男性参加女子体育赛事“极不公平”。
同样引发民主党内部辩论并登上新闻头条的还有马萨诸塞州众议员赛斯·莫尔顿，他在2024年选举后不久表示，自己反对跨性别运动员参加女子体育赛事，并认为民主党花了太多时间试图不冒犯他人。
资深民主党战略家玛丽亚·卡尔多纳告诉福克斯新闻：“民主党在这个问题上做得很明智，明确了自己的立场，这样对手就无法给他们贴标签，然后他们可以转而讨论选民真正关心的议题。”
“我有两个小女儿，我不想她们在运动场上被男性或前男性运动员撞倒，但作为民主党人，我本应该不敢说出这句话，”莫尔顿在接受《纽约时报》采访时说道。
时至今日，尽管大多数民主党政客仍坚定支持跨性别权利，但越来越多的人改变了立场。
得克萨斯州联邦参议员候选人、州众议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科是民主党人，他正努力夺取共和党把持的得克萨斯州参议院席位。此前共和党曾因他过去支持跨性别运动员参加女子体育赛事而攻击他。但他在上个月告诉福克斯新闻：“如果会危及安全或公平，我反对跨性别运动员参加女子体育赛事。”
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在共和党占主导的艾奥瓦州，民主党正努力夺取另一块开放的共和党参议院席位，该州民主党候选人、州众议员乔希·图雷克在遭到共和党批评后，明确表示反对生理男性参加女子体育赛事，也反对为未成年人进行变性手术。
俄亥俄州资深民主党众议员马西·卡普tur正面临艰难的连任竞选，她在竞选广告中宣称“男孩不应参加女子体育赛事”，并表示自己专注于“让你的生活更负担得起”。
在她的竞选宣传材料中，她吹嘘自己“投票禁止学校在课堂上宣扬性别意识形态”，并表示“与极左翼不同，我认为男孩不应该参加女子体育赛事”。
但美国全国共和党国会委员会指出，卡普tur曾在2023年4月和2025年1月投票反对共和党提出的《保护女性和女孩体育法案》。
资深民主党人因该议题同时遭到左右两方抨击
俄亥俄州民主党众议员马西·卡普tur是众议院历史上任职时间最长的女性议员，今年11月她将竞选第23个任期，这场选战是关键战场席位的角逐。(盖蒂图片社)
“走投无路的民主党人马西·卡普tur的谎言无法抹去她的激进过往。卡普tur正在进行危机公关，她必须撤销作为《平等法案》共同提案人的身份，否认自己此前的投票，否则就收回广播中的谎言，”美国全国共和党国会委员会发言人扎克·班农告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
北卡罗来纳州众议员唐·戴维斯是另一位面临连任压力的民主党人，他是去年投票支持共和党一项法案的三名众议院民主党人之一，该法案可能会让为未成年人提供性别确认医疗服务的医护人员面临牢狱之灾。
曾在空军学院打橄榄球的戴维斯在一则连任广告中出现在橄榄球场旁，他说道：“我认为各州应该决定什么才是保护女性和女孩的正确做法，北卡罗来纳州已经做出了决定。”
但卡普tur和戴维斯都因在跨性别议题上的表态遭到民主党人的反对。
在深蓝州马萨诸塞州，莫尔顿为自己此前有关跨性别群体的言论道歉，但仍在上月的民主党参议院初选中被进步派参议员埃德·马基以绝对优势击败，马基指责他将跨性别儿童“推下公交车”。
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马萨诸塞州民主党参议员埃德·马基（左）和马萨诸塞州民主党众议员赛斯·莫尔顿在马萨诸塞州民主党参议员提名竞选对决。(安德鲁·哈尼克/盖蒂图片社 | 迈克尔·布罗克斯坦/SOPA图片社/光明光线 via 盖蒂图片社)
共和党战略家科林·里德在谈到那些调整立场的民主党人时告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“选民应该对选举前几周出现的任何政策立场转变持高度怀疑态度，尤其是在美国那些这类议题在过去已被证明极具政治杀伤力的红色地区。”
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但曾效力于比尔·克林顿政府、希拉里·克林顿和巴拉克·奥巴马竞选团队以及民主党全国委员会，现任民主党全国委员会委员的卡尔多纳表示，民主党正在“明确自己在这个问题上的立场，这样对手就无法给他们贴标签，然后他们可以转而讨论选民真正关心的议题。”
她认为，“共和党无法像2024年那样在本届选举周期中将这个问题用作武器，原因有二。一是民主党正在就该问题展开辩论并坦诚谈论，明确自身立场。但更重要的是，当人们入不敷出时，他们不会被那些对你去加油站加油、开车上班没有任何影响的文化议题所吸引。”
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Democrats are changing their transgender message. Republicans say they’re just flip-flopping
October 9, 2026 9:58am EDT / Fox News
Several prominent Democrats have shifted messaging on transgender issues as Republicans revive potent 2024 campaign cudgel
By Paul Steinhauser
South Carolina Democratic Senate nominee Dr. Annie Andrews appears to be distancing herself from her past opposition to restricting transgender athletes in girls’ sports, telling Fox News Digital she opposes biological males competing in women’s sports and gender transition surgeries for minors.
As Democrats fight to regain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, Andrews is among a group of candidates in competitive races in red and swing states who seem to be shifting positions on transgender issues. Meanwhile, Republicans are aiming to use the highly-charged issue as a cudgel to bash Democrats for a second straight cycle.
“I don’t support biological men playing in women’s sports, and I don’t support gender surgery on minors,” Andrews told Fox News Digital.
Andrews, who’s locked in an increasingly competitive midterm election showdown with Republican Sen. Darline Graham in reliably red state South Carolina, delivers the same message in a new campaign commercial, adding, “I want you to hear me loud and clear.”
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Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., speaks during a campaign event at the Green Boundary Club on Aug. 24, 2026, in Aiken, S.C.(Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
But Graham, who was appointed to the Senate following the sudden death this summer of her older brother, longtime Sen. Lindsey Graham, is accusing Andrews of trying to conceal her previous position on transgender athletes.
Andrews “has spent years supporting biological males competing in girls’ sports. Now that she’s running for Senate, she’s trying to hide from that radical record,” Graham recently charged.
Graham and Republicans point to Andrews’ opposition to a 2022 South Carolina law barring transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s public school sports teams.
“This is shameful legislation that does nothing to protect or support women or children in SC. In fact, it is actively harmful. I will always support trans youth,” Andrews wrote in a social media post at the time.
Republicans are seeking to once again make the issue a campaign liability.
The GOP effectively blasted Democrats in the 2024 election, with President Donald Trump’s campaign targeting Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris with ads declaring “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”
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Then-Vice President Kamala Harris and then-former President Donald Trump shake hands at their presidential debate on Sept. 10, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.(Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Republicans spent more than $200 million to run ads targeting Democrats on the transgender issue in the 2024 campaign, arguably helping the GOP to sweeping victories.
The latest national polls indicate that most Americans oppose transgender athletes playing on sports teams that don’t match their birth sex.
More than three-quarters (76%) of those questioned in a Fox News national poll conducted last month backed banning biological men from competing in women’s sports, with one in five opposed. The survey indicated bipartisan support, with 90% of Republicans, 77% of independents and 61% of Democrats backing the ban.
Facing a rough political climate amid an unpopular war in Iran and soaring gas and diesel prices as they try to hold their fragile congressional majorities, Trump and the GOP are increasingly looking to replay their transgender political playbook.
Trump, at last month’s GOP midterm convention, described anti-trans messaging as one of the party’s most effective campaign tools to drive voter turnout and target Democrats in the final stretch leading up to Election Day.
“It’s one of our great sound bites of all time,” the president said at the two-day confab in Dallas.
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President Donald Trump speaks during the Republican convention at American Airlines Center on Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas, Texas.(Chitose Suzuki/The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images)
And some of the other top speakers at the convention, including Vice President JD Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, and Senate and House GOP re-election chairs Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. Richard Hudson highlighted the issue in their addresses.
Meanwhile, Republican ads on the issue are running for a second straight cycle.
But Democrats are recalibrating, and learning to fight back.
One of the first to pivot following the 2024 election setbacks was California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate. In early 2025, he suggested that biological males playing in women’s sports was “deeply unfair.”
Also making headlines and sparking a debate among Democrats was Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, who said soon after the 2024 elections that he opposed transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports and that Democrats spent too much time trying not to offend people.
Veteran Democratic strategist Maria Cardona told Fox News that “Democrats are being smart on this issue in terms of defining where they are on it so their opponents can’t define them and then pivoting back to the issues that they know that voters actually care about.”
“I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that,” Moulton told The New York Times.
Fast-forward to present day, and while most Democratic politicians remain steadfast supporters of transgender rights, there are an increasing number who have changed course.
Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee trying to flip a GOP-held seat in red-leaning Texas, has been targeted by Republicans over his past support for allowing transgender athletes in girls’ sports. But he told Fox News last month, “I oppose trans athletes playing in girls’ sports if it endangers safety or fairness.”
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Democratic Senate candidate state Rep. James Talarico speaks during a campaign rally at the Cailloux Theater on Aug. 31, 2026, in Kerrville, Texas.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
In Republican-dominated Iowa, where Democrats are aiming to capture another open-GOP held Senate seat, Democratic nominee state Rep. Josh Turek has expressed opposition to biological males competing in women’s sports and gender transition surgeries for minors after facing Republican criticism.
Longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, who is facing a tough re-election bid, is running ads saying “boys should not play in girls’ sports” and that she is focused on “making your life more affordable.”
In her campaign mailers she touts that she “voted to ban schools from touting gender ideology in classrooms,” and, “Unlike the far left, I believe boys shouldn’t play girls’ sports.”
But the National Republican Congressional Committee pointed out that Kaptur voted against the GOP-led Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act in April 2023 and January 2025.
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Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, is the longest-serving woman in House history and is running for her 23rd term in a key battleground race this November.(Getty Images)
“Lies from desperate Democrat Marcy Kaptur can’t erase her radical record. Kaptur is in damage control, and she must remove herself as a co-sponsor of the Equality Act and disavow her previous votes or remove her lies from the airwaves,” NRCC spokesman Zach Bannon told Fox News Digital.
Rep. Don Davis of North Carolina, another vulnerable Democrat seeking re-election, was one of only three House Democrats who voted last year for a GOP bill that could lead to prison for health care workers providing gender-affirming care for minors.
Davis, who played football at the Air Force Academy, appears alongside a football field in a re-election advertisement, saying, “I believe states should decide what’s right for protecting women and girls, and North Carolina has decided.”
But both Kaptur and Davis have faced pushback from Democrats over their messaging on the transgender issue.
And in deep blue Massachusetts, Moulton, who apologized for his past transgender comments, was still trounced in last month’s Democratic Senate primary by progressive Sen. Ed Markey, who accused his challenger of throwing transgender children “under the bus.”
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Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., left, and Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., faced off for the Democratic nomination in Massachusetts.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images | Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Republican strategist Colin Reed, pointing to Democrats who’ve shifted their positions, told Fox News Digital that “voters should be very skeptical in the authenticity of any shifting policy positions that occur weeks before an election, especially in red parts of America where these types of issues have proven to be so politically toxic in the past.”
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But Cardona, a veteran of the Bill Clinton administration, the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaigns and the Democratic National Committee who currently serves as a DNC committee member, said Democrats are “defining where they are on the issue so their opponents can’t define them and then pivoting back to the issues that they know that voters actually care about.”
She argued that “Republicans won’t be able to weaponize this issue this cycle the way they were able to in 2024 for two reasons. Democrats are fighting about and actually talking about it and defining themselves. But more importantly, when people can’t make ends meet, they’re not going to be drawn into culture issues which don’t make a difference when you go to gas pumps and can’t fill up your car to go to work.”
Fox News’ Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report
Paul Steinhauser covers the national campaign trail from coast to coast for Fox News
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