Before all their votes were even counted, Democratic leaders in both states were scheming to undo the people’s will.
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leaders → count → will
Now, those voters need President Donald Trump to help enforce it.
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voters → need → it
Washingtonians voted for Initiative 638 to bar biological males from girls’ K-12 competitions by over 57% — a ringing victory for common sense in a state that’s been controlled by progressives for decades.
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that → vote → decades
They did so even while granting Democrats a supermajority in the legislature.
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They → do → legislature
Yet progressive Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal responded to the results with a vow: “We are going to take our state back,” she said — presumably, from her own wrongthinking voters.
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she → respond → voters
The ACLU, Legal Voice and Pacifica Law Group are challenging the initiative on behalf of clients including the Washington Education Association teachers’ union and TransFamilies, seeking to keep it from taking effect on Dec. 3.
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ACLU → challenge → Dec.
Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, the Seattle Public Schools Board and others are backing the court challenge.
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Wilson → back → challenge
That’s life in a blue state: You brave threats and assaults to collect signatures, win a single victory despite a blue wave — only to have an entrenched political establishment fight tooth and nail to undo the result.
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establishment → ’ → result
In Colorado, it’s the same story: Democratic Gov.-elect Phil Weiser and statehouse Democrats are looking to rewrite their voters’ newly approved protections for female student athletes.
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Weiser → ’ → athletes
“The legislature is going to have to fix it and provide a much more human and sound approach,” Weiser says.
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Weiser → go → approach
The voters’ choice apparently requires his correction.
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choice → require → correction
The federal government shouldn’t have to intervene for families to obtain protections they’ve already voted for.
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they → have → protections
Yet federal enforcement is exactly the outside help they need — and Trump is already providing it.
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Trump → need → it
On Thursday, Trump’s Education Department opened a Title IX investigation into Washington’s Camas School District over a male cross-country athlete who switched from the boys’ to the girls’ team midway through the season — and rocketed from 76th place to first.
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who → open → first
The federal probe will also look into district policies on access to female students’ private spaces, as well as parents’ allegations that school officials suggested the girls who protested the team-switch incident were “transphobic.”
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who → look → incident
Meanwhile, the federal Justice Department has sued Minnesota’s education department and high school athletic league, arguing that allowing males into female sports and facilities violates girls’ rights under Title IX.
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allowing → sue → IX
Federal enforcement matters — particularly in a state where the official responsible for protecting the voters’ choice has spent a career fighting the policies those voters want.
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voters → matter → policies
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown, a Democrat, is tasked with defending the voters’ ballot decision.
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Brown → task → decision
But his position on the matter is clear: In 2025, Brown led an attorneys general coalition to support Minnesota when a group of female athletes there challenged the state’s transgender sports policy in court.
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group → lead → court
WEA, which spent $391,000 to oppose the ballot measure, endorsed Brown’s campaign — and he’s a former partner at Pacifica, the law firm leading the effort to overturn the voters’ trans sports initiative.
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he → spend → initiative
On Thursday, after outcry over his biased connections, Brown appointed outside counsel to “vigorously defend” the ballot measure.
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Brown → appoint → measure
But his choice is tantamount to a taunt: he named the firm of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, which is representing the World Professional Association for Transgender Health in ongoing litigation in Montana, Idaho, Missouri and Indiana, and which partnered with Lambda Legal and others to block Missouri’s efforts to restrict gender-transition procedures for minors.
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which → name → minors
Parents need more from Washington, DC, than investigations that drag on while their daughters lose opportunities.
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daughters → need → opportunities
The DOJ has sued California, Maine and Minnesota over policies allowing males into girls’ sports, and federal investigators have opened probes into schools and districts in more than a dozen states over athletic participation or access to female bathrooms and locker rooms.
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investigators → sue → bathrooms
Trump’s administration must pursue those investigations boldly, enforce Title IX where violations are established, and bring cases that secure lasting protections for female athletes.
Republicans may have lost control of the House and Senate, but the president still directs the Justice and Education departments.
That authority does not expire in January when a new class of woke Democrats is seated in Congress.
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Female student athletes are counting on his administration to use that power — and set critical legal precedents before the next president takes the helm.
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president → count → helm
Ari Hoffman hosts “The Ari Hoffman Show” on Seattle’s Talk Radio 570 KVI and is the Post Millennial’s West Coast editor.
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Hoffman → host → Radio
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