There are birth certificates, medical records, and sports physicals. Biological males who try to game the system by competing against girls are cheating; the Seattle school board is making the bonkers argument that preventing cheating infringes on students’ rights. That is not, however, an honest or good faith argument. It is a lawyer-devised attempt to defy the will of the public, because the government always knows best, unless it’s a Republican government.

This is a tell: progressives care about democracy and democratic institutions only when elections support their policies. Totalitarians think this way. And their fans have been out protesting at “No Kings” rallies.