Haley Strack writes about Richard K. Cox, a Virginia man and registered sex offender who identifies as transgender and insists on using women’s locker rooms. Arlington Public Schools, which operates the facility in whose locker rooms Cox exposed himself to girls as young as nine, allowed him to do this.

He would not be allowed to do so in Ohio. A law has come into effect that “mandates that public and chartered nonpublic schools, educational service centers, and colleges maintain sex-separated multi-occupancy restrooms, locker rooms, and overnight accommodation facilities” and “forbids the entry of a man who identifies as a woman (and vice versa) into those spaces,” as National Review‘s editors put it last December in an editorial advocating the law’s passage.

The usual critics have made, and are still making, their typical arguments against this bill. But to argue against common sense requires leaps of logic that make one look ridiculous — or worse. Hence Cox’s rationale: “My civil rights as a transgender person allows me to use a public facility, including the restrooms or changing rooms that identify with my gender.” Again, not in Ohio: The school-operated facility in question would not permit actions such as Cox’s. Virginia ought to take note.