(LifeSiteNews) – Far-left “Christian” Texas Democrat Senate nominee James Talarico continued his efforts this week to rebrand himself as more mainstream on transgender issues, disavowing a past comment about more than two sexes existing as well as males in female sports.
Talarico sat down for an interview with Fox News’s Brooke Taylor, during which he was asked about a comment he made during a 2021 debate in the Texas Legislature that “modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes — in fact, there are six,” explaining that he was counting intersex chromosomal variations as distinct sexes to argue that “sex is a spectrum and oftentimes it can be very ambiguous.”
When asked if he still believes that, the candidate said “no. I’ve missed the mark on some of my past statements,” then claiming Republicans’ focus on the comment is a means of distracting from current issues such as high gas prices.
FOX NEWS: During the 2021 era, you said ‘there are 6 biological sexes.’ Do you still believe that?
TALARICO: No. I’ve missed the mark on some of my past statements. The reason Republicans want to talk about six sexes is because they don’t want to talk about $6 diesel. pic.twitter.com/jOkxgFJl3K
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 9, 2026
She also asked about forcing female students to compete against gender-confused males in athletic programs, and claimed, “I oppose trans athletes playing in girls sports if it endangers safety or fairness.”
The answers continue a trend he has started since winning the Democratic nomination of moving to the middle on transgender issues, on which the general public is firmly against the Democratic position. He now claims to oppose “transition” procedures on minors, but in 2023 he opposed legislation before the Texas Legislature to ban them and declared he was “disturbed that this body is not willing to let doctors make these decisions” that he falsely claimed would increase teen suicides, suggesting that he is just temporarily adopting a more mainstream position on the issue for political expediency.
Democrats initially framed Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian and current Texas state representative, as a mainstream figure and rising political talent capable of appealing across partisan lines due in part to his ostensible faith background that was swiftly quashed not only by his strident left-wing stances on abortion, sexuality, and more, but by claiming that Christianity endorses them.
He has falsely claimed that the Bible “doesn’t mention abortion or gay marriage” and attempted to use the Bible to defend abortion while asserting the “closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people.” In 2022, he urged former President Joe Biden to establish abortion centers on federal property across the country to counter what he called an “anti-choice” threat to “our most basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” On multiple occasions, Talarico has referred to women as “neighbors with a uterus,” apparently to avoid “gendering.”
He has also faced intense criticism for blasphemous comments in 2021 about God and transgenderism. He has attempted to explain that he “was being intentionally provocative with that statement” while acknowledging there were “some statements that I’ve made that I certainly regret,” and complaining that Republican opponent Ken Paxton was allegedly “intentionally clipping my cringey comments to distract from his career of corruption.”
Democrats saw Texas as an opportunity to flip a historically-safe GOP seat, given the various scandals plaguing the Republican nominee, Attorney General Ken Paxton, who beat incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn for the nomination.
Republicans are currently projected to lose the Senate, and some analysts continue to fear trading Cornyn for Paxton gives Democrats an opportunity to pick up a critical Senate seat in the red state or at least force the party to spend more to hold onto it than it otherwise would have, potentially at the expense of other races. Others maintain that Talarico’s radicalism squanders whatever hopes Democrats might have had, and that his race to the middle will not be enough to convince voters he is genuinely mainstream.