There isn't a person alive in America who is not shocked by this news. I certainly am not; I predicted this very thing back on November 6 after a slew of conservative ballot measures passed around the country while voters also elected Democrats.
These measures included voter ID initiatives and protecting girls' sports. Days after the election, Colorado governor-elect Phil Weiser said he would have to give the measures — Propositions 134 and 135 — a "long, hard look" in the state legislature. Those would bar boys from girls' sports and prohibit "gender-affirming surgeries" being performed on minors, respectively.
The Seattle school board took it a step further with a plan to oppose the voter-approved legislation in Washington state, I-638, which keeps boys out of girls' sports.
BREAKING: Tonight, the Seattle Public Schools Board plans to oppose voter-approved I-638, which is designed to keep boys out of girls' sports.
— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) November 10, 2026
The resolution they plan to vote on "authorizes the Superintendent to undertake appropriate legal actions consistent with this… https://t.co/tyhmYDN2dL pic.twitter.com/blg3MfWC9Q
The board later voted unanimously to pursue a legal challenge the will of Washington voters.
DEVELOPING: The Seattle Public Schools Board voted unanimously to legally challenge the will of the voters who elected to protect girls' sports.
— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) November 10, 2026
Look at the cowards run after the meeting
A win for the patriarchy pic.twitter.com/OgLjGaZ6r1
Now, take a moment and listen carefully.
Do you hear a single Democrat screaming about this threat to democracy or how it's undermining the will of the voters?
No.
You hear crickets.
Because for Democrats, democracy is a "heads we win, tails you lose" proposition. They have no interest in respecting the will of the voters when the voters oppose the Democrats' agenda. We saw this repeatedly throughout the early and mid-2000s, when voters across the nation — including in California — voted to protect marriage as an institution between one man and one woman. Dissatisfied with the will of the voters, they mounted legal challenges that led to the June 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized gay marriage nationwide, despite the votes of millions of Americans.
More recently, California voters approved Proposition 36, a bill that would crack down on certain crimes in the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom was not happy with that, either. While he said he didn't have the "bandwidth" to campaign against Proposition 36, he saw how popular it was in polling and said, "I was wondering what state I'm living in ... the public clearly has a different point of view."
But never fear, Newsom found a way to block the will of the voters, there, too: he and the Democrats in Sacramento simply refused to fund Proposition 36, rendering it moot.
Why should all these conservative ballot measures be any different?
Every time President Trump opens his mouth to talk about election fraud — fraud Democrats have admitted to in various ways in recent months — we get breathless lectures from guys like Jake Tapper about how the President is an existential threat to our democracy.
Meanwhile, Democrats are the ones who are actually undermining democracy by denying the will of the voters when the voters have the audacity to vote contrary to the Democrat Party platform. Jake Tapper will not mention this on his shows, no one will call for the removal of the Seattle school board as a threat to democracy, and the voters in Washington will be told to go pound sand.
