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In Toss-Up MT-01 Race, Dem Sam Forstag Refuses To Throw Trans People Under The Bus Anonymous 10/13/26(Tue)19:40:46 No.45038955

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/keep-politics-the-heck-out-of-it

>Transgender people are facing a constant barrage of anti-transgender ads from Republicans this election cycle. Meanwhile, dozens of Democratic candidates have determined that the best way to answer them is to throw transgender people under the bus. Marcy Kaptur in Ohio ran an ad touting her vote to keep “transgender ideology” out of schools, and in Iowa, Josh Turek declared he would support a federal funding ban on gender-affirming care. The argument made by those at Searchlight, one of the major anti-trans Democratic organizations, is that this is necessary, that refusing to throw transgender people under the bus will cost you an election. Now, Democratic candidate Sam Forstag in Montana’s 1st Congressional District is bucking that trend. In a debate with his opponent, vehemently anti-transgender talk radio host Aaron Flint, he was asked directly about transgender rights, and he answered that the government “has no business” in these decisions, and that voters should “keep politics the heck out of it.”

>“Aaron, the U.S. Supreme Court has said that discrimination against transgender people is discrimination based on sex in the workplace, but it has not definitively established transgender status as a protected class under the 14th Amendment. Do you consider gender identity a protective classification under the 14th Amendment and why?” asked NonStop Local anchor Bradley Warren, to which Aaron Flint responded with an answer about not “touching children” and “chopping off body parts.”

>Then, it came time for Forstag’s answer, a moment that has seen other Dems take anti-transgender stances. Forstag, however, did not take that approach, and instead embraced keeping the government out of transgender people’s lives, giving a very Montana-aware political answer that did not throw transgender people under the bus: