Twenty-one Democratic attorneys general have filed a brief seeking to block an Idaho law that prohibits transgender students from using public school restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity.

This clearly reveals a dividing line between Democrats and Republicans on this issue. Democrat lawmakers and officials almost always align themselves with the LGBT position that a person’s gender is what that person says it is. Most Republicans support the traditional view that a person’s gender is determined by chromosomes and genitalia.

This is the situation.

Adopting the LGBT approach means that young females are likely to have their bodies exposed to males who claim to be females. Some of these so-called transgenders are legitimate, but many are not. There is no doubt that some males use this ploy to have access to females, and others wish to gain a physical advantage in athletic competitions. Either way, normal women, composing perhaps 99 percent of the female population, suffer the consequences.

Going with the traditionalists results in true transgenders, those suffering from gender dysphoria, enduring the discomfort of using restrooms and locker rooms associated with their original sexual classification. Legitimate male-female transgenders number no more than 1 to 2 percent of the female population.

Under these circumstances, why the debate? Let’s not let the tail wag the dog.