‘How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost’, is an extensive New York Times Magazine write-up of ‘United States v. Skrmett’ and everything leading up to it.

There’s a striking moment in it when even some of Biden’s people began realizing the extremism of the movement they had tethered themselves to. You may remember Rick ‘Rachel’ Levine, the Biden White House’s transgender admiral.

White House officials were blindsided, several told me. Though Levine would later tell Biden aides that she had been trying to protect the president, the West Wing saw it differently: Her request could suggest that the administration thought there should be no minimum ages at all. “Everyone was like, holy cow — did Rachel Levine really go out and lobby for 9-year-olds to get surgery?” one former Biden aide told me.

As if they were actually surprised. These people tether themselves to movements that want abortion up until the moment of birth, mutilating two-year-olds and supporting the euthanasia of depressed and disabled people, and sometimes they have moments when they realize how bad it’s gotten.

But it doesn’t make them stop.