Yesterday, I wrote about the immense power that transgender ideology still has over the Left, even as evidence mounts that transgender activists deny not just biological but also political reality. The Left’s angry reaction to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s declaring it “deeply unfair” for women to compete against men in sports is just one example of its enduring hold when it comes to this issue.

Newsom isn’t the only Democrat struggling to make sense of this new political terrain, despite activist interference. NOTUS reports that some congressional Democrats believe their approach must change. Yet this effort in some way involves Congressman Sarah McBride (D., Del.). Born Tim, McBride unsurprisingly believes that, when it comes to trans issues, “a binary choice between being all-on or all-off is not constructive for anyone.”

A few Democrats in the House have dissented from the transgender line. Massachusetts congressman Seth Moulton and New York congressman Tom Souzzi have expressed something like Newsom’s view, earning opprobrium from fellow Democrats for doing so. McBride objects to this reaction. He finds it “an incredibly problematic instinct that many have to excommunicate people who aren’t in lockstep with you on every policy, or even aren’t in lockstep with you on the messaging.”

Yet in this supposed charity, McBride cannot quite let go of the presumption that transgender activists deserve eventually to win out. His case for civil conversation on trans issues is based on “creating room for a lack of understanding, for disagreement, for grace and, therefore, to create room for growth.” Growth, that is, toward “a faith in progress, self-servingly defined, that for too many on the left functions as a religion,” as I described it yesterday. Even attempts by elected Democrats to reckon with what some are beginning to accept is at least a political problem cannot let go of this pseudo-faith. Don’t expect large-scale change in the party or on the left until they do.