Ben Carson may have made some hairy comments about the transgender movement, but the Left is the party guilty of weaponizing transgender rhetoric, not the Housing and Urban Development secretary.

After the Washington Post ran out-of-context quotes from Carson last week, many prominent liberals immediately decried him as a bigot. Even though he clarified his comments a day later, that wasn’t enough for any of them. They had already decided to run with the winning “Trump administration official is transphobic” narrative.