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On Tuesday night, as election results poured in, it became immediately clear: anti-transgender ads had failed to earn Republicans a victory in the year they relied on them the most. Despite $183 million spent on ads targeting transgender people and any Democratic politician who had ever expressed support for them, even Democrats who openly supported transgender people won in Republican strongholds. As a trans woman won her race in a conservative Alabama district and fierce defenders like Peggy Flanagan won Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race, there was a lot to be hopeful about.

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