The mission to defund Planned Parenthood may switch from a basis in abortion to one in transgenderism. It’s still a pro-life angle, but one more indirect than the movement has hoped.

That is the general tread of popular social politics: Transgenderism is fading, despite Democratic and Antifa efforts on its behalf, and becoming an issue convincing to a great swath of people. Especially as President Donald Trump’s immigration actions take a more polarizing character, gender identity and child hormone treatments remain stolid. So much has the issue gained commonsense status that the Trump administration has targeted it, along with diversity- and COVID-related aims, in pulling billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health. Planned Parenthood seems next in line.