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Trump hammered Democrats on transgender issues. Now the party is at odds on a response

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Democrats are grappling with how to handle transgender politics and policy following a campaign that featured withering and often misleading GOP attacks on the issue.

Some progressive and moderate Democrats are struggling between the party’s modern identity as a champion of civil rights and its electoral fortunes across swaths of America with whom those attacks resonated.

In reality, the Biden administration has held that Title IX bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Federal law that Trump ads cited does require people in U.S. government custody to have access to gender-affirming medical treatments.

It is not legal in any state for a school to determine and carry out surgical treatment for minor students.