The most revelatory angle to the Democratic freak-out over Gavin Newsom’s disclosure that it’s “deeply unfair” for trans athletes to play girl’s sports was that there was hardly any Democratic freak-out at all. Yes, there was disgust from trans advocates and LGBTQ groups, like the Human Rights Campaign, which said that Newsom was “betraying” vulnerable communities with a cynical eye on the White House in 2028. And yes, there were appalled progressives in Sacramento, where Newsom still has a year or so of being governor. Scott Wiener, an ambitious Bay Area state senator, issued a 400-word statement blasting Newsom for hosting conservative talker Charlie Kirk as the first guest on his new podcast, This Is Gavin Newsom, where he uttered the remark. And there were some Democratic critics outside the state too, like former Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, who said, “There are kids waking up today in California with this news thinking that their governor hates them, and rightly so.”