Kayden’s Law, named after a Pennsylvania girl who was bludgeoned to death by her father with a 35-pound dumbbell in 2018, has received rare near-unanimous bipartisan support as a critical measure to protect abused children. Not even the longstanding federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which the bill for Kayden’s Law would amend, enjoys such rare, politically non-divisive support. In March, the VAWA, first enacted in 1994 and since reauthorized multiple times by Congress, was passed by the House in a bipartisan-led charge on a bipartisan 244-172 vote. It has now stalled in the Senate due to some partisan push-and-pull over gun rights and transgenderism. One major sticking point for both sides is a proposal to allow transgender men to be housed in shelters for battered women. Another disagreement is over a newly-proposed clause that prohibits gun ownership by anyone convicted of misdemeanor stalking. Republicans opposed to the proposal argue …