Blue-state voters buck the wave and demand sanity on trans athletes

As Democrats nationwide rode an enormous blue wave to victory Tuesday, voters in Washington and Colorado dealt a blow to the far left’s agenda.Both deep-blue states passed ballot measures requiring girls’ and women’s school sports to be reserved for biological females.They proved — despite a well-funded Democratic effort to label the initiatives as “right wing” and “bigoted” — that protecting girls’ sports was never about right versus left; it’s about right versus wrong.Washington state’s commonsense Initiative 638 bars biologically male students from girls’ K-12 competitions and requires basic sex verification for school athletes.Colorado’s Prop.134 does the same from kindergarten through college, establishing three categories for competition — men’s, women’s and co-ed — defined by reproductive biology.For years, media outlets and the left have framed such policies as “anti-trans,” “Republican” or “far-right.”The results of Tuesday’s vote expose that claim as a blatant lie — a rhetorical tactic meant to deter ordinary people from supporting fairness out of fear.This is a watershed moment, though it will not end the debate.It’s a clear signal that the “consensus” of the last few years — that biological sex in female sports is optional — has collapsed among ordinary voters.Many Democrats voted for Democratic candidates across the board, yet still spoke up to protect girls’ sports.Now party leaders must take heed: Your own base has spoken decisively.The vast majority of Americans reject males in women’s sports.They understand that male physiology confers durable advantages in strength, speed and power that no amount of self-identification can erase.Female sports categories exist because of that fact.When voters in deep-blue states affirm it at the ballot box, they are not endorsing a partisan agenda; they are confirming reality.They’re restating what was always a mainstream position: Girls deserve fa...