Seth Moulton Says He Doesn’t Want Transgender Athletes In Women’s Sports

By Tom Joyce | November 8, 2024, 13:59 EST

U.S. Representative Seth Moulton (D-Salem) does not think males, including males who identify as transgender, should compete in women’s sports.

Moulton says he thinks the Democratic Party has moved too far to the left on various issues and worries that it is alienating people who may otherwise vote blue.

He used transgender-identifying athletes and boys competing in girls’ sports as an example.

“Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face,” Moulton told a New York Times reporter on Thursday. “I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on the playing field by a male or formerly male athlete. But as a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” 

Such injuries have happened in Massachusetts when girls have competed against male athletes.

Collegiate Charter School of Lowell ended its girls’ basketball game against KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate on February 8 at halftime while trailing 31-14, as NewBostonPost previously reported.

Collegiate Charter School of Lowell ended the game early due to injury concerns, and one player causing injuries in the game was a male player. The male player is over six feet tall and has facial hair.

One such injury occurred during a battle for a rebound underneath the basket.

InsideLowell posted a clip of the male player, who wears number 32 for KIPP Academy but is not identified by name in the video, injuring a girl during the game.

It is below:

Similarly, a male field hockey player at Swampscott High injured a girl who attended Dighton-Rehoboth last year.

In its 2-1 loss to Swampscott in the MIAA Division 3 Round of 32 matchup against Swampscott on November 2, 2023, a girl on the Dighton-Rehoboth team got seriously hurt. Swampscott High captain and Northeastern Conference All-Star Sawyer Groothuis, a boy, drilled a girl in the face with one of his shots shot.

The female player suffered dental and facial injuries, requiring her to go to the hospital, Dighton-Rehoboth superintendent Bill Runey confirmed in a letter to parents in November 2023, as NewBostonPost previously reported.

The Dighton-Rehoboth school committee responded to this by implementing a policy that lets players opt out of playing against opposite-sex athletes without any consequences from the school, as NewBostonPost also reported.

Lynn and Swampscott are both in the Sixth Congressional District of Massachusetts, which Moulton represents.

Massachusetts has also seen male athletes win state championships in field hockey, girls’ gymnastics, and girls’ indoor track and field in the past five years, as NewBostonPost has previously reported. And during the 2023 season, a transgender-identifying athlete was the league MVP for the Cape and Islands Lighthouse Division in girls’ volleyball, as the organization HeCheated.org has reported.

Moulton is not the only Democratic Congressman who criticized letting males compete in women’s sports in the aftermath of the 2024 general election.

U.S. Representative Tom Suozzi (D-New York), who is from Long Island, expressed a similar sentiment.

“The Democrats have to stop pandering to the far left,” Suozzi told The New York Times on Wednesday. “I don’t want to discriminate against anybody, but I don’t think biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports.” 

The pro-transgenderism organization Mass Equality attacked Moulton for taking this position, arguing that his words will “reinforce harmful stereotypes.”

“Our community is deeply hurt by these remarks, which reinforce harmful stereotypes and undermine the dignity of transgender athletes,” Tanya Neslusan, Executive Director of Mass Equality, said in a press release posted to X (Twitter). “We hope that by engaging with the Congressman, we can work toward a more inclusive and informed understanding of transgender issues in sports.”

 

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