The Democratic congressman from Massachusetts joined WBUR's Morning Edition to respond to the criticism from those within his party and LGBTQ+ advocates.
The Democrat, who served in the Marines, is hosting a Veterans' Day Town Hall in Marblehead on Monday. Ahead of the event he spoke with WBUR'sfrom within your party here in the state for comments to The New York Times after the election results came in last week, you,"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.
"And I hear this from a lot of voters, and the point is that we need to be able to have a conversation about that, Tiziana. But the backlash to my comments proves my point, because this isn't just about trans kids. I use that as an example to The New York Times of a much larger issue that we have in our party, where we can't have discussions about contentious issues that resonate with a lot of voters, and frankly, that's why we lost this election.
"When we say trans kids, we're talking about when they're, you know, teenagers and whatnot and actually are, you know, the biological differences of being born male really show through. But also, what are we going to do about the border? You know, this is the same group of people who are trying to cancel me because I simply want to have a conversation."
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