


New York Attorney General Tish James apparently has too much time on her hands.
She’s co-leading a lefty crusade of other like-minded attorneys general against a law in West Virginia that bans trans students from playing on girls’ sports teams, aiming to create a federal right to guarantee they can.
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Guess there’s nothing better for her to do as crime spirals in the Empire State.
Heck, she’s even taken time out from her massive civil fraud suit against the Trump Organization.
Look: As the story of Lia Thomas — and countless other examples — demonstrates, letting trans women compete against biological women is profoundly unfair.
They enjoy significant size and strength advantages.
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One proponent of trans women competing against biological women admits that “men have, on average, an advantage in performance in athletics of about 10% to 12% over women.”
And that’s on average.
Thomas went from being the 554th-ranked swimmer in the 500-yard freestyle against other men to No. 1 when competing with women.
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So the West Virginia law is a deeply common-sense and science-backed approach (one shared by FINA, the world swimming body that once allowed Thomas to compete as a woman and has since changed its tune).
That’s true wherever you may stand on the larger question of trans inclusion.
But above all — the whole affair is simply none of James’ business.
What the citizens and legislature of West Virginia do is utterly outside official duties, as are any national social-justice policy aims.
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She’s tasked with representing the people of New York in high-stakes lawsuits and serving as chief legal consigliere for our executive branch.
There’s no law against trans females participating on male school teams in New York; both city and state public school systems are supportive of it.
That’s unlikely to change, given progressive dominance of New York, until the progressive line evolves to recognize how anti-woman this extremism actually is.
Which makes James’ crusade to reshape law at the federal level an irrelevant vendetta, at the literal expense of the voters she allegedly represents: We’re paying for the manhours her office is wasting on it.
It’s just one more slap in the face from our arrogant, unaccountable governing class.