The transgender movement’s public support has collapsed. Even among Democrats.

A recent New York Times poll showed that 67% of Democrats now say transgender men should not compete in women’s sports and 54% say that kids should not be getting puberty blockers.

One of the first wave of Trump administration executive orders was to declare that two genders was official government policy. It highlighted its intention to enforce “all sex-protective laws” based on that reality.

That’s good. The specific cases in the order tended to focus on prisons.

The next step after the executive order should be a Dear Colleague letter aimed at schools.

The exec order did mention that “the prior Administration argued that the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), which addressed Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, requires gender identity-based access to single-sex spaces under, for example, Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act.  This position is legally untenable and has harmed women.”

That’s because Title IX cuts both ways. If sex is interpreted as gender identity, then it forces men into women’s sports. However, if Title IX is there to protect women, then allowing men into women’s sports is a violation.

Schools and colleges should be notified as soon as possible that continuing to allow men to compete against women, and to use their facilities, will be considered a Title IX violation.