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A CNN commentator just said in one sentence what millions of American parents have been thinking for years. Scott Jennings, the lone conservative voice on CNN’s prime-time panels, drew national attention with a clip making the rounds again this weekend. Speaking on the Daily Caller, Jennings cut through the noise on the trans debate with a question pointed straight at the Democratic Party. “If I can’t trust you not to put a boy in a teenage girl’s locker room, how will I ever listen to your plan for taxes and the economy? I will not, because I’ve already concluded you’re a lunatic.” The clip resurfaced this weekend as Jennings, appearing on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, again called multiple Democratic primary candidates “lunatics,” pointing to the party’s drift toward extremism. The Virginia governor’s race, the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on women’s sports, and a growing parade of cases involving boys in girls’ locker rooms have kept the issue at the top of voter concerns. The argument Jennings made is simple. A leader who cannot be trusted on the most basic biological reality cannot be trusted on complicated policy. If a politician will not protect a twelve-year-old girl in the place she changes clothes, no one should hand them the keys to the economy. The Bible is not silent on this. From the first chapter of Genesis, Scripture grounds human dignity in the truth that God made human beings male and female. That is not a slogan. It is the foundation of how we understand bodies, families, marriage, and the responsibility adults carry to protect children. “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” — Genesis 1:27 A nation that forgets the first chapter of its own moral story will eventually forget how to protect its own daughters. Common sense and Scripture line up here. They almost always do. Protect the girls. The rest of the policy debates can wait their turn. What do you think — is the trans debate disqualifying, or just one issue among many?