WHY BATHROOMS MATTER: “There is a lesson in this, especially for Republicans,” Jonathan Last writes at the Weekly Standard:

The left is in the process of overreaching on an issue that the average voter cares about, deeply. People might be able to rationalize supporting same-sex marriage by telling themselves that, even if it’s not their thing, it makes no difference to them what gay couples do. But if you’re a woman using the locker room at the gym, it might matter quite a lot if a man who says he’s a woman on the inside is using the shower next to you.

We have reached a bizarre moment in our politics, where the “progressive” left resists having conservative speakers on a college campus because they make students feel “unsafe,” but insists that boys who identify as girls be allowed to shower with girls in the public schools, and misgivings must be educated away, or litigated into submission.

Plus some advice on getting Hillary and Bernie on the record on this topic. Read the whole thing.

Related: “This Isn’t A Culture War. It’s A War On Culture.”