Wyoming may soon take a commonsense action regarding transgender athletic participation.

The state's House and Senate passed a bill that would require student-athletes in grades 7 through 12 to participate on school sports teams based on their biological sex, not their gender identity.

The bill is now on Republican Gov. Mark Gordon’s desk. Hopefully, he will sign it.

Some will argue that requiring boys to compete against other boys rather than girls is about fairness. They are correct, even if they miss the main point: The government should never embrace transgender ideology.

Instances exist in which transgender athletes have either won championships or helped their teams win championships. For example, a transgender track runner won a girls state championship in Connecticut in 2019; a transgender swimmer won an NCAA Division 1 women’s national championship last year; and last month, a transgender track runner helped Brookline High win a Division 1 team state championship in Massachusetts.

While some think the unfair athletic advantage is why this legislation needs to be passed, it is not the most important reason.

More importantly, the government should never affirm transgender identity. It should not deny biological reality to appease the woke crowd. Therefore, it should not matter if transgender athletes are the best or worst athletes on their teams.

Allowing transgender athletes to compete based on so-called gender identity embraces transgender ideology. The government should acknowledge the existence of two genders that people cannot change: male and female. Males have XY chromosomes and male genitalia, while females have XX chromosomes and female genitalia.

The government should reject the false premise of transgenderism while acknowledging that some people struggle with gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia . It can respond to their concerns by taking mental health seriously . For example, gender dysphoria causes people to feel anxious and depressed, so it’s understandable why people would want to seek a cure for it. However, the government does not need to teach the genderbread person in schools, put gender X on driver's licenses , or replace mother and father on government forms with “Parent 1” and “Parent 2” to do it.

Instead, the government could avoid promoting this social contagion , foster a culture where it is OK for a young girl to be a tomboy without insisting that she was born in the wrong body, and focus on improving mental health — especially among younger Americans. If the government did, it could help these feelings subside without pretending people are something they are not.

Tom Joyce ( @TomJoyceSports ) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.