The Washington Post, where “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” never misses an opportunity to advertise how out of touch it is with the rest of the country. An article from this week, titled “‘I don’t feel safe’: Trump’s passport gender policy sparks fear for trans travelers,” is no exception.

WaPo staff writer Hannah Sampson explains why gender-confused Americans are upset about their passports because President Donald Trump issued an executive order mandating that government documents accurately reflect a person’s sex. The main reasons that became apparent are as follows: They don’t want to be outed as a gender-confused person every time they travel, and they feel unsafe traveling because they may be stopped by a person who hates transgender-identifying individuals.

Let’s tackle the first concern. People not calling you by a preferred pronoun isn’t a reason not to travel. Words have meaning, and biologically, humans are what they are — male or female. Using a person’s nationality as an example, one cannot simply declare one day that he or she is suddenly Canadian or Korean and expect the passport to reflect that self-declaration. Similarly, one cannot deny biological reality just because he or she decides to identify as something else. Also, for the vast majority of people who identify as the opposite gender, most don’t really pass the cosplaying test.

The second concern is much more valid, but not in the way that those who were complaining to The Washington Post may think. In the article, Sampson showcases a woman who identifies as a man who has been stopped by TSA because her passport doesn’t match her driver’s license (and this was before Trump’s executive order went into effect). The real danger to people who are gender-confused is traveling in foreign countries where transgenderism isn’t tolerated. According to Human Rights Watch, 65 countries have laws against same-sex relations, and nine countries have laws against “gender expression,” which one can only assume means transgenderism. Ironically, some of the countries that the WaPo interviewees said they were no longer visiting because of their passport change were Canada and Mexico. Both are LGBTQ+ friendly nations. So, ultimately, these gender-confused individuals are pitching a fit over people not affirming their feelings and delusions.

Of course, this outcry is garnering attention because of celebrity pro-transgender voices such as “Euphoria’s” Hunter Schafer, whose passport now reads male (he identifies as female), and the infamous Bud Light marketer Dylan Mulvaney, whose resurgence into the limelight this week is due to the ladies of ABC’s “The View.”

Ultimately, these fears and complaints are overblown. Buried at the end of the WaPo article was this little nugget: “Carl Charles, a senior attorney with Lambda Legal, said the group is not aware of people with valid, unexpired documents encountering harassment, disruptions or problems traveling since the new policy went into effect.” Oh…

While plenty of gender-confused people are taking up legal arms against the president, none of them are doing so because they have faced travel document drama at the hands of the TSA. This issue is a perfect example of the tyranny of the few.

How many people are affected by this passport EO?

According to the Post:

The State Department does not publish information on how many transgender people have passports that match their identity or how many Americans have chosen the gender-neutral X marker. The UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute, which researches public policy and laws about gender identity and sexual orientation, has estimated the population of nonbinary LGBTQ adults in the United States at 1.2 million and transgender adults at 1.3 million. A 2022 estimate from the research center said 16,700 nonbinary LGBTQ people might ask for passports with an X every year.

There are 262,083,034 voting-age adults in the United States. This policy is good for the vast majority of the population. Should we accommodate the .0049% of the population upset by this change? Transgender and nonbinary identifications aren’t a disability like blindness or being wheelchair-bound. Sex is an immutable characteristic like race and ethnicity. Why should a vanishingly small percent of the population dictate policy for the majority to placate a mental disorder (or, in some cases, a fetish)?

All in all, Hannah Sampson’s article was meant to pull on the heartstrings. It’s the transgenderism version of the illegal immigrant mother crying at the border wall. It’s all emotion, and there’s no real substance or a convincing argument. Americans want people to be treated decently, but they are very tired of being held hostage by the Rainbow Mafia.