News Analysis President Joe Biden differs sharply from his predecessor when it comes to how the federal government should treat Americans who identify as transgender. Biden is a progressive leveler. He embraces the transgender ideology unreservedly, demanding that society accept and normalize transgender people, whereas former President Donald Trump was more restrained, respecting the right of transgender people to exist without rearranging society to accommodate them or supporting the radical socially transformative goals of the left-wing transgender movement. Trump banned some transgender individuals from military service; Biden welcomes them. Trump opposed letting transgender persons use school bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity; Biden does not. Trump opposed expanding civil-rights protections for transgender people in employment; Biden favors expanding such protections, not just in employment, but also in other realms. Biden supports sex-change operations for 8-year-olds; Trump did not. Biden has nominated the first transgender person for a post requiring U.S. …