There’s no shortage of deceit and calumny on the part of people who demand that our children acquiesce to the tenets of transgender ideology. In their defense of the indefensible, these ideologues have become masters of twisting the truth.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison provides the most recent case study. “It is astonishing that any president would try to target, shame, and harass children just trying to be themselves,” said the state’s top law enforcement officer in response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Minnesota, challenging the discriminatory policy of allowing boys to play in girls’ sports.

It is young girls who are just trying to be themselves by stepping into the arena of competitive sports. It is girls who are shamed and harassed by having to dress and undress in front of boys. It is girls who are targeted for denial of athletic recognition for excellence, as politicians demand they surrender to the incontrovertible physical superiority of males. Ellison’s reaction is a complete inversion of logic and truth, one that even George Orwell might never have imagined.

Ellison's position is well aligned with the transgender ideology that has consumed the worldview of the state’s top political elites. Governor Tim Walz........

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