What’s a Woman? Battleground Democrats can’t answer.

The mask is slipping.

In key midterm Senate races, so-called “moderate” Democrats are embracing extremism — defending policies that put men in women’s sports and radical ideology ahead of the will of voters.

It’s an interesting turnabout for a political party that spent millions of dollars the last few cycles to convince women they were the party of “women’s rights” and “reproductive freedom” only to succumb to the demands of radical gender activists who can’t explain what women even are — who want to erode the sanctity of female-only spaces and erase women and girls.

Two of the Democrat battleground poster boys, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and former Gov. Roy Cooper (D-N.C.), will have to explain why they have adopted the extreme gender ideology of the far left, rather than the common sense principles of the voters who live in their states.

In Georgia, although 73 percent of voters who do not want biological men competing in women’s sports, Ossoff voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act in the Senate, choosing instead to erase women’s sports and silence female athletes.

The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), was simple: It would amend Title IX to ensure that female athletes are not forced to compete against men. Every single Senate Democrat voted against the bill. In the House, all but two House Democrats voted against a similar bill sponsored by Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.).

And Ossoff did not stop there. At President Trump’s address to Congress, he refused to stand and acknowledge Payton McNabb, a female athlete who had suffered a traumatic brain injury when forced to compete against a man in a high school volleyball game.

McNabb, a North Carolinian, received the same disrespectful and disgusting treatment from then-Governor Cooper when he vetoed a commonsense state bill protecting women’s sports.  In response to Cooper’s veto, McNabb said, “Gov. Cooper discarded the safety and opportunities of female athletes for the feelings of males. With this veto, he discounted my long-term injuries by a transgender player, and overlooked women’s Title IX rights.”

In a state like North Carolina, with multiple storied and successful college sports programs, Cooper’s disregard for female athletes is alarming, to say the least. One wonders how he could, for example, honor the  University of North Carolina 2023 Women’s Field Hockey team for their national championship trophy while simultaneously vetoing the very bill that would have protected this sport and others from unfair male competition on behalf of future generations of female athletes.

Fortunately, North Carolinians were spared of Cooper’s hypocrisy when the Republican legislature overrode his callous veto of legislation that ensured the protection of women’s sports in the state.

But if Cooper is elected Senator, North Carolinians will not have the state legislature to put a check on his extreme views. He is so ideologically committed to this nonsense that he cannot even answer the basic question, “Do you know how many genders there are?”

Democrats in another battleground state, Maine, are waging war against female athletes too. Gov. Janet Mills (D) refused to comply with President Trump’s widely supported executive order protecting women’s sports.

The real-world implications of Governor Mills’ actions were quickly brought to light by state Rep. Laurel Libby (R), who posted on social media about a male student athlete who had competed in and won a sports competition for girls in the state. Libby was censured for her post, even though 64 percent of the state’s residents say they do not believe that transgender male athletes should participate in female sports.

The Democratic Party’s top battleground states are littered with candidates and officeholders who have chosen to leave female athletes by the wayside. Voters in Georgia, North Carolina, and Maine will not forget how Democrats turned their backs on women and girls. 

My organization is ready to help mobilize these voters to hold Ossoff, Cooper, and others accountable at the ballot box.

Jessica Anderson is president of the Sentinel Action Fund.