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Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., urged the Democratic Party to beryllium much tolerant of dissenting opinions connected arguable issues — specified arsenic transgender athletes competing successful women's sports — during a speech with Bill Maher connected "Real Time" connected Friday.
Moulton argued that 1 of the Democratic Party’s biggest problems is its intolerance of interior dissent, which has led to Republicans winning implicit the nationalist connected hot-button issues.
The Massachusetts typical faced calls for his resignation past November aft helium challenged the left's stance connected transgender athletes successful girls' and women's sports during an interrogation with The New York Times.
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"Democrats walk mode excessively overmuch clip trying not to offend anyone alternatively than being brutally honorable astir the challenges galore Americans face," helium said astatine the time. "I person 2 small girls. I don’t privation them getting tally implicit connected a playing tract by a antheral oregon formerly antheral athlete, but arsenic a Democrat I’m expected to beryllium acrophobic to accidental that."
Moulton faced dense backlash from his ain enactment aft telling The New York Times that helium doesn't privation his daughters "getting tally implicit connected a playing tract by a antheral oregon formerly antheral athlete." (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Maher brought this up during his speech with Moulton and praised him for speaking out, claiming that Democrats request to halt taking the unpopular broadside of "80/20" issues.
The late-night big besides mentioned that Moulton's run manager discontinue implicit his connection connected transgender athletes and that radical similar his erstwhile run manager "are the problem."
"The constituent is, we can't person disagreements successful the party," Moulton claimed. "That was really the second fractional of my juicy punctuation to the New York Times. I conscionable said, ‘I don’t privation my girl getting tally over,' but arsenic a Democrat, I'm not allowed to accidental that."
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He continued, saying, "That's the problem: we can't adjacent sermon these issues. We can't adjacent person a tenable argumentation connected trans radical successful sports due to the fact that we're not allowed to speech astir it, and Republicans conscionable tally distant with the issue, and they're precise extreme."
Maher told Moulton that portion helium appreciates him taking that stance, "it's got to spell further than that."
Maher praised the Democratic congressman for pushing backmost against the presumption quo of the party. (Screenshot/HBO)
"You person to beryllium capable to speech astir it, and also, that guy's incorrect and you're right! How astir that? You're close astir this," helium asserted.
Later connected successful the conversation, the Democratic typical called retired his enactment for slamming Republicans arsenic "weird," portion simultaneously requiring members to person their pronouns listed successful their email signatures.
"Look, if you privation to beryllium trans, spell for it. It's a escaped country, and you tin enactment your pronouns retired there, but don't enactment that connected me," Moulton explained.
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He reiterated that Democrats request to halt taking the "20" broadside of "80/20" issues and expect to triumph implicit the bulk of the country.
"We got to really beryllium existent with the American radical — conscionable beryllium honorable — and it's good if you disagree, I'm good with that," Moulton stated. "But I get to talk arsenic a dad, that's legitimate."
Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
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