MATT CALKINS: Democrats' push to overturn girls' sports vote shows they don't actually care about democracy
It's just funny that when a vote goes one way for the Democrats, it's "the people have spoken," and when it goes another way, it's "the people have spoken out of turn." I was at the Washington state cross country finals Saturday, where a boy who switched to the girls' team midseason was competing.
Key points
- There is no official scorecard on this one, but if there is one word I've heard more than any other from Democratic politicians over the past several years, it might be "democracy." Kamala Harris repeatedly made "democracy is on the ballot" a central theme of her presidential campaign.
- "We're going to start planning for how we overturn these bad initiatives and how we go back to loving everyone with gender inclusivity the way we have for decades." It continued with Washington State Democratic Party Chair Shasti Conrad, who made clear two days later that the election results weren't going to settle the issue.
- But all these examples highlight that, to Democrats, democracy doesn't die in darkness — it dies in broad daylight when the wrong side wins.
In this case, I'm referring specifically to the passing of Washington state's Initiative 638, which would enforce the separation of boys and girls in K-12 sports if it goes into effect.
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- WASHINGTON STATE'S HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS LEAGUE PUTS ONUS FOR TRANS ATHLETE CONTROVERSY ON STATE LAWS None of this is to say that legal challenges to ballot measures are inherently illegitimate.
- For one, protecting girls from the athletically superior sex in sports is not the same as denying gay people the right to wed.
- Several girls voiced their relief that they wouldn't have to deal with this issue again next season.
- But almost immediately, Democrats decided democracy wasn't a necessity so much as an inconvenience.
- One of those organizations is Gender Justice League, a Seattle-based LGBTQ advocacy group whose executive director, Danni Askini, told KUOW that it was exploring legal options to challenge the initiative.
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