On Wednesday morning, three witnesses sat at a table in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Kim Jones co-founded the Independent Council on Women’s Sports. Carly Smolak played professional soccer until the sport shifted around her. William Bock III has litigated women’s sports eligibility cases for years. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Standing Up for Women in Sports: Ensuring Opportunity, Fairness and Safety for Female Athletes, was officially underway.

Not one Senate Democrat stayed to ask them anything.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) opened by calling the hearing a “vendetta against a small number of people in the trans community,” said he wouldn’t treat it as “a responsible exercise of this committee,” and left before witnesses were sworn in. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) appeared briefly and said nothing. Every other Democrat simply didn’t show. Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) called it “absolutely absurd.” That’s probably too generous.

I’ve coached youth sports for more than a decade. I know what it looks like when a young woman earns a roster spot. What happened Wednesday wasn’t complicated. Democrats made a calculation: they can’t defend their position in front of actual........

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