OPINION:
The Democrats’ social policy agenda was a major reason for their loss in the 2024 presidential election. Yet they persist in pushing it. For example, numerous female athletes have spoken out about their fears over competing against — and losing to — biological males, but legislators continue to allow boys to compete in girls’ sports. A female fencer recently refused to compete against a biological male and was disqualified for it.
What does it mean that public officials ignore an issue that nearly 80% of people polled have said they support: banning biological males in women’s sports? Why aren’t they sticking up for women? When people attempt to justify actions or attitudes that are clearly outside the common-sense opinions of the majority, there is no logical or moral compass at play, only arrogance. The Democratic Party is morally corrupt because it doesn’t know what it stands for, so it ends up supporting everything.
How would members of Congress react if their children’s schools allowed biological males to expose themselves in girls’ locker rooms? How would they console their daughters after they’d watched them practice at a sport for hours — only to be defeated by a boy in a match or game? It is political suicide for Democrats to continue an ideology that has been wholly rejected. I think they believed that support for transgender athletes would be simple and nobody would care, but they were dead wrong.
This shouldn’t be surprising, however, considering that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson refused to define the word woman. It’s sad to see an entire political party lack the courage to admit when it’s made an error.
GREG RALEIGH
Washington
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