Democratic identity politics is a convoluted mess of conflicting and contradictory talking points that will almost always cut against one of the party’s privileged “victim” groups. Even transgenderism, and transgender people are the most protected identity group in Democratic politics, is not immune to the contradictions.

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) was one of several Democrats who recently questioned FBI Director Kash Patel. Hirono was particularly concerned with the physical standards the FBI was applying to female agents. She worried that Patel was “now requiring applicants to be able to do a certain kind of pull-ups, which a lot of women cannot because of physiological differences.” The requirement Hirono was complaining about is that female FBI hopefuls must do one pull-up. (Male applicants must do two to three.)