As Democrats nationwide rode an enormous blue wave to victory Tuesday, voters in Washington and Colorado dealt a blow to the far left’s agenda.

Both deep-blue states passed ballot measures requiring girls’ and women’s school sports to be reserved for biological females.

They proved — despite a well-funded Democratic effort to label the initiatives as “right wing” and “bigoted” — that protecting girls’ sports was never about right versus left; it’s about right versus wrong.

Washington state’s commonsense Initiative 638 bars biologically male students from girls’ K-12 competitions and requires basic sex verification for school athletes.

Colorado’s Prop. 134 does the same from kindergarten through college, establishing three categories for competition — men’s, women’s and co-ed — defined by reproductive biology.

For years, media outlets and the left have framed such policies as “anti-trans,” “Republican” or “far-right.”

The results of Tuesday’s vote expose that claim as a blatant lie — a rhetorical tactic meant to deter ordinary people from supporting fairness out of fear.

This is a watershed moment, though it will not end the debate.

It’s a clear signal that the “consensus” of the last few years — that biological sex in female sports is optional — has collapsed among ordinary voters.

Many Democrats voted for Democratic candidates across the board, yet still spoke up to protect girls’ sports.

Now party leaders must take heed: Your own base has spoken decisively.

The vast majority of Americans reject males in women’s sports.

They understand that male physiology confers durable advantages in strength, speed and power that no amount of self-identification can erase.

Female sports categories exist because of that fact.

When voters in deep-blue states affirm it at the ballot box, they are not endorsing a partisan agenda; they are confirming reality.

They’re restating what was always a mainstream position: Girls deserve fair competition and physical safety.

That’s common sense, not bigotry — and continuing to force the opposite position risks alienating the very voters who just returned Democrats to power.

It’s time for the party to reverse course.

For years, an elite class determined to erase sex-based categories has bullied ordinary Americans into silence or worse.

The votes in Washington and Colorado tell them, no more.

Yet laws do not automatically rewrite culture.

Inevitably, some coaches, athletic associations and schools in these states will still field biological males on girls’ teams, believing it to be “good trouble.”

Doctors will falsify documents because they’ve convinced themselves that “trans women are women.”

But trans-identifying boys are not girls, and subordinating the hard-won rights of females — privacy, safety, athletic and academic opportunity — to the feelings of a smaller number of males is not justice.

Title IX was written to expand opportunity for females, not to redefine the category until it disappears.

The difference now is that Washington and Colorado parents and athletes have legal recourse.

Before these measures, calling out a male on a girls’ podium often meant social ostracism or accusations of harassment.

Today, a clear statutory boundary exists — and schools and associations that ignore it can be challenged in court and by state authorities.

For institutions receiving public funds, compliance is no longer optional.

In the coming months, expect the rhetoric from trans-inclusion activists to grow sharper, not quieter.

Some will turn to volume, institutional pressure or disruption — patterns already visible at WNBA games, when fans holding “Save Women’s Sports” banners have been surrounded, heckled and removed from venues.

The energy that once enforced silence now faces a public no longer afraid of cancellation.

How can you be cancelled when the law is on your side?

The voices of sanity won meaningful victories this week, but we’re not done.

At least 20 states still lack comparable statutory protections — and many private club sports, travel teams and professional leagues operate outside these laws.

Changing statutes is necessary; changing the culture that treats male advantage as a minor inconvenience is the larger task.

That shift is already underway.

Girls are walking off starting lines.

Parents are speaking under their own names.

Voters in places long assumed to be bastions of progressivism are choosing fairness.

The measures that passed Tuesday establish, in two blue states, that girls’ sports are for girls.

And that ordinary Americans — Democrats, Republicans and everyone in between — are willing to defend that stance at the ballot box.

Democrats must stop subordinating girls’ rights to an ideology voters have rejected.

The remaining work is clear: We must pass similar protections elsewhere, enforce the ones that exist — and refuse to treat the defense of female categories, sports and spaces as fringe.

Jennifer Sey, founder and CEO of XX-XY Athletics, writes Sey Everything on Substack.