Bathroom Insanity and the 2016 Race

In its latest assault on traditional Americans mores, federalism, the separation of powers, and common sense, the Obama administration is now claiming that a federal law passed more than 40 years ago (Title IX) somehow requires all public schools across America to provide access to bathrooms and sports teams based on whatever sex students want to say they are. In an otherwise fine account of the administration's science-denying radicalism on this issue, one political analystwrites that the issue of transgender bathroom use "looks like a loser for conservatives with swing-state voters." Really?‎

The source of this analyst's claim is a lone poll, from CNN, that asked the following:

"Overall, do you favor or oppose laws that guarantee equal protection for transgender people in jobs, housing and public accommodations?"

Unsurprisingly, three out of four respondents said they favor such protections—for w‎hen are a majority of Americans going to say they oppose "equal protection" of the laws for anyone? Who says, "No, I oppose the equal protection of the laws for some"? The real question is what "equal protection" entails.

CNN got a little less general in a different question: