“This is an agenda I don’t understand,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tells Sandra Smith this morning. It’s that lack of understanding that is itself difficult to understand. The source of this radical push to obliterate sexual identity has a clear pedigree and a clear purpose. And the reluctance of even the more pugilistic Republicans to directly address the agenda driving it remains even more inexplicable, given the political momentum against it.
Smith asked Paxton, who just launched a primary challenge to Senator John Cornyn in Texas, about the efforts in blue states to resist the Trump administration’s moves to protect females in competitive sports. Maine’s AG recently defied Donald Trump and pledged to go to court to protect Maine’s federal funding, and other Democrat-run jurisdictions have made similar threats. They wish to go to the mattresses to…
