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‘You Went Too Hard’: Chris Cuomo Unloads On Dems For Dying On ‘Hill’ Of Trans Issues

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NewsNation host Chris Cuomo criticized Democrats on Thursday for letting controversial transgender issues hurt their chances in the 2024 election.

President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign ran an ad accusing Vice President Kamala Harris of supporting taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal immigrants and Trump also pushed to ban biological men from competing in women’s sports during his campaign. Cuomo, on “The Chris Cuomo Project,” suggested Democrats‘ unwillingness to address contentious issues like these alienated American voters.

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“America is about not allowing the many to subjugate the few, but it is not about allowing the few to subjugate the many. See, and we have the ‘how much’ fucked up right now, but you can recalibrate that,” Cuomo said. “Fight for trans. When the issue is defined as: should male athletes who transition to females be able to compete against females? At this point in time, even with the standards they’ve put in — which I’ve taken the time to research — one year of this, what does it do? There’s no retesting, there’s no calibration, there’s no measure.”

“So as of now, the equities fall on the side of not allowing it. So one is too many. I know there aren’t many cases of this. There should not be any. Well, then what’s the answer? I don’t know. But again, you do not punish the many because of the few. ‘Oh, but it’s so few people.’ But one is too many,” he continued. “My daughter not getting a record, not getting a scholarship, not getting a place on a team, not getting any experience because she is bested by somebody who is genetically superior as an idea, if it’s not within the same gender biologically, it’s not fair.”

Biological males who identify as transgender females competing in women’s sports became controversial after Lia Thomas won the 500-yard women’s final participation in the 2022 NCAA championships.

“But don’t allow that to be the issue. Don’t die on that hill. Die on the hill of respecting the reality that these people are hunted because of their sense of identity. Die on that hill. Die on fairness for treatment and respect, and how these kids are bullied and treated,” Cuomo said. “Don’t die on the hill of ‘allow every child to make decisions about their own medical care.’ Why? Why would we make an exception for kids when it comes to identity that we don’t make for anything else? Why? Why would you interfere with parents on this level of this?”

A handful of pediatricians who perform sex-change operations on children spearheaded a successful pressure campaign to influence the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH)  to eliminate age minimums for life-altering sex-change surgeries from its clinical guidance, according to emails exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Biden-Harris administration also pushed WPATH to eliminate sex-change procedure age limits from their clinical guidance, according to records made public by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall while defending Alabama’s law prohibiting pediatric sex-change procedures.

“‘Oh, all the kids’ pain.’ Kids are in pain from cancer. Kids are in pain from leukemia. You don’t get involved with how the parenting works in that structure. ‘This is more complicated. It’s emotional, it’s psychological.’ Fine. Worry about yourself,” the NewsNation host added. “You cannot let your appreciation and your interest for the few affect what you require of the many. That is the message of this election. That is why Democrats underperformed.”

“They did not own the economic reality of paying at the gas, grocery, rent and mortgage counter, let’s say, as a metaphor. And you played down people’s pain, and you went too hard on cultural understandings and exceptions that don’t fit normative understanding. ‘Well, too bad.’ No, now it’s too bad for you,” he continued. “You tried the condescending, arrogant ‘too bad, I’ll cancel you if you don’t like it.’ It didn’t work in this election.”