The Supreme Court hearings on U.S. v. Skrmetti should have been the Left’s moment to provide a compelling defense of the transgender movement. Especially Justice ‘Not a Biologist’ Jackson. Instead the country witnessed Justice Sotomayor comparing transgender mutilation of children to taking an aspirin (good thing there’s no government agency regulating those) and Jackson comparing the regulation of transgender interventions to interracial marriage.

Both of those are dumb arguments, but they’re also notable for being the high points of the debate.

After a massive election defeat driven in part by the Democrat Party’s extreme position on the transgender movement, the party and its people show that they’re unable to grasp the harm caused by the transgender movement to children and women.

Deploying a law to argue that 2-year-olds are empowered to ‘change’ their sex and justices who don’t even seem to grasp the issue, the hearings ably showed why Democrats embraced the transgender movement. They did it by refusing to see the costs and the harms, and insisted on seeing the issue through the narrow civil rights prism of an oppressed minority. And no matter how many women or children they threw under the bus, they were incapable of changing.

In a case where Democrats have to argue why governments shouldn’t be able to regulate one particular set of medical interventions (well two sets, including abortion) but can regulate all others, they proved unable to understand why anyone would even want to regulate them.

And so the reckoning with the harm they’ve caused continue to play out in political consequences.