Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., appears to have been financially rewarded for taking on transgender athletes in women’s sports, but his critics aren’t backing down.

Moulton raised $547,153 from Election Day in November through the end of 2024, according to The Boston Globe. That number is 10 times higher than what he raised during the same period in 2022, and 80% of donations were $100 or less.

“I think most Democrats want to put this issue to bed so we don’t keep losing on it,” Moulton told the paper.

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The congressman was one of the most vocal Democrats to speak out against transgender inclusion in women’s and girls’ sports following his party’s sweeping election losses to the White House, House of Representatives and Senate.

Moulton initially made his comments blaming his party’s stance on transgender inclusion in a New York Times op-ed on November 7, just two days after the election, and then repeatedly doubled down on that stance amid backlash from them in his own party.

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Moulton’s comments led to a pro-transgender rally outside his office on November 17th, and now another rally is planned outside his office on Tuesday, January 28th.

Salem City Councilman Kyle Davis, who organized the rallies, previously told Pakinomist Digital that there is a sizable Democratic contingent in Massachusetts planning to primary Moulton in 2026.

Although Moulton has publicly rejected support for transgender inclusion in women’s and girls’ sports, he still voted against a bill that would help fight it last week.

Moulton joined 206 Democratic representatives who voted against the Women and Girls in Sports Protection Act on January 14. Moulton previously co-sponsored the Equality Act and the Transgender Bill of Rights, both of which would allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.

On Tuesday, two Democrats joined the Republican majority in voting for the bill — Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas. But despite Moulton now opposing transgender inclusion, he voted against the bill Tuesday, saying he doesn’t want children to be “subjected to the invasive invasions of privacy that this law allows.”

That argument was similar to one that many other Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., has advanced, insisting that it would enable child predators to give genitalia to young girls.

The bill passed the House with bipartisan support and is moving to the Senate, and some Democratic voters have chosen to leave the party in response to their representatives’ argument about child predators.

Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., questions Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley during a July 9, 2020, House Armed Services Committee hearing. (Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

A recent one New York Times/Ipsos survey found that the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, do not believe that transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Of the 2,128 people surveyed, 79% said biological males who identify as female should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.

Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democrats, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.

Shortly after November’s election, a national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America legislative action committee found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls’ and women’s sports and transgender boys and men using girls’ and women’s bathrooms” as important to them.

And 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”