Fast Takes: Parents should know their rights, lefts trans extremism hobbles Dems and more

“If you have school-age children, you may be worrying about what your kids will be exposed to when class resumes,” notes Ian Prior at The Wall Street Journal.From “preferred pronouns” to girls “forced to share a locker room with boys,” these “real dangers” form “the subject of school board battles, federal investigations and lawsuits across the country.” But “parents are no longer powerless” thanks to recent SCOTUS decisions and the Trump White House: They “have the right to opt out” of gender propaganda, “the right to their children’s records” and the right to review curricula.

Title XIV protects “sex-separated spaces” — “but legal rights mean little if parents don’t exercise them.As students return to school this fall, parents should know” how much power they have. “Mainstream Democrats’ surrender” to the “far-left” poses a “formidable challenge” to the party’s “establishment” in the midterms, as it “has left Democrats” vulnerable on trans policies that “have hobbled” them before, argues Doug Schoen at Fox News.

This problem “is only getting worse” as “pressure from their left flank” means candidates must “refuse to distance themselves” from a position even “most Democrats do not endorse,” as polls indicate.But virtually no Dems “supported a 2025 bill that sought to bar transgender athletes from competing against girls in K-12 schools,” and the “party’s elites continue supporting” the trans-rights policies that “could well have played a decisive role in the outcome” of 2024’s presidential election.Democratic “establishment candidates are offering the mob the Supreme Court to show their bona fides as the far left” targets “our constitutional system,” warns Jonathan Turley at Res ipsa loquitur.The aim: Pack the court with new justices who will then “greenlight a variety of unconstitutional measures,” from “wealth taxes to reparations to clima...