ALT screenshot from linked to essay that reads: An emerging talking point that generally falls under the “too woke” umbrella is that Democrats lost because they have been too supportive of trans rights, and if they wish to succeed in the future, they should abandon that position. This idea has been touted by members of Biden’s inner circle, Atlantic columnists on The Bulwark Podcast, and incoming Democratic congressmen. The day after the election, prominent pundit Matthew Yglesias (who has thrown trans people under the bus before) posted nine principles he thought “Common Sense Democrats” should follow moving forward, one being, “While race is a social construct, biological sex is not.” As I explain in this video, “biological sex” is both an explicitly anti-trans framing and one that is not supported by actual biology (and I should know because I’m a biologist).