I think that this election almost definitively demonstrates that trans issues are not important to the voters.
Or abortion, or misogyny, or social justice, etc.
There was a big turnout, after all.
> I think that this election almost definitively demonstrates that trans issues are not important to the voters.
I don't know about the politics of your state, but in mine over half the ad campaign of the Republican senator who just won was focused on transgender issues. His losing Democratic opponent did not touch that issue.
> Or abortion
Statewide ballot measures aimed at abortion rights succeeded even in many states where Democrats lost.
Then maybe the Dems shouldn't have run on that as their major platform?
I mean, the message "Elect Me Because $ABORTION_RIGHTS" is pointless if the states are going to get their abortion rights anyway.