The House last month passed the Equality Act, a deceptively named bill that claims to secure equal rights but threatens the liberties of millions of people who disagree with the Left’s extremist gender ideology. The bill now moves to a split Senate, where a few centrist members voted in support of it the last time it was introduced. This time, they should rethink the issue and defeat it.

The Equality Act’s purpose is to add to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit housing and workplace discrimination on the basis of “sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity.” But this is unnecessary because the Supreme Court’s recent decision Bostock v. Clayton County already prohibits such discrimination. The bill’s proponents know this, but they’re using the Equality Act as a front for the much bigger and more dangerous purpose of making the Left’s fanciful and anti-science ideas about sex and gender the law of the land.