Commentary On March 3, Iowa became the 11th state over the past two years to enact legislation barring biological males from participating in school athletic competitions designated for students who are biologically female. On the evening of March 4, the Utah state legislature passed a bill that would make Utah the 12th state—except that Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has vowed to veto this effort to protect girl athletes from having their scores and records trounced by bigger and stronger boys who identify as transgender. It’s likely, also, that Cox’s veto will stand. Utah is an overwhelmingly Republican state, and it’s Republican-dominated states such as Iowa, Florida, South Dakota, and Texas that have successfully enacted what opponents call “anti-transgender legislation” on a number of issues, including, besides girls’ sports, access to opposite-sex school bathrooms, and administering puberty blockers to preadolescent children. Still, both houses of the Utah legislature cast sharply divided …