Democrat Refuses to Attend Women's Event Because of Transgender Moderator
Democrats vary widely when it comes to transgender rights, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll of 1,089 U.S. adults conducted in May.
Approximately 82 percent of Republicans said efforts in the U.S. to promote the rights of transgender people are "going too far"—a sentiment also shared by the majority of political independents.
About 47 percent of Democrats said the promotion of rights is "not going far enough.""I do not recognize Reverend Donnie Anderson, a biological male, as a woman in the Democratic Party," Waters wrote to the Women's Caucus, according to WLNE-TV in Rhode Island.He added that as a father of "two beloved, Black teenage daughters," he doesn't want biological men to "compete with them as women in traditional biological female spaces."Anderson, 75, is a biological male who first questioned her gender at age 9 in 1956 during a conversation with her mother.
The conversation didn't go well, she told Newsweek via phone, and she did not officially come out until six decades later at the age of 69.Aside from being the chair of the caucus, she has spent a large portion of her life as a minister—including presiding over a congregation at Pilgrim United Church of Christ in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
