The Supreme Court’s ‘Skrmetti’ Decision Protects Gay/Lesbian Kids

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My Substack column is here:


The LGB Courage Coalition:


LGB Alliance USA:


Log Cabin Republicans:


Why this decision is important to protect gay youth:


Science matters!:


The misreporting began prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling:


To put it bluntly:

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Another Identitarian Big Lie

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A message for Trump critics: spurious attacks that are easily proved false to anyone but the party base don’t win support for your side. For instance, progressive identitarians want low-information Democrats to believe the Trump administration is racist and homophobic, with progressive media backing up their narrative. But the truth will out.

T. Becket Adams responded to a Washington Post op-ed:


I previously addressed some of these issues in a Substack post, “Scott Bessent: A Nomination Based on Merit, Not DEI.”

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Renaming the ‘Harvey Milk’

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I can’t deny that ordering the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk at the start of Pride Month shows a certain animus toward gay people/homosexuality (in the LGBTQ+ mix) on the part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Milk, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, was a gay activist who became one of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S. He was assassinated in 1978.

While in the U.S. Navy for four years, Milk served during the Korean War on a submarine rescue ship and then as a diving instructor. He was issued an “other than honorable discharge” in 1955 after his superiors learned he was a homosexual, the New York Times reports.

A brief digression: I’ve written on transgender service members elsewhere (but briefly, if you’re on cross-sex hormones, you can’t be deployed – just like diabetics on insulin aren’t eligible for service; and if you self-identify as trans but haven’t physically transitioned, your excludible for all the reasons why we don’t allow men and women to be naked together in shared spaces).

But back to gays. I believe military symbolism should be limited to what unites us as Americans, not what divides us on culture-war fault lines. While a gay (or LGBTQ+) person might appreciate serving on the Harvey Milk, how would a traditionally religious person feel about it? We have a right to equality under the law in our relationships, but we don’t have a right to require others to endorse homosexual relationships.

And then there is the issue of Milk’s age-discordant sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy with substance issues, as reported by Milk’s friend Randy Shilts in his biography “The Mayor of Castro Street.” This fact is noted in all the “conservative” media reports and in none of the “liberal” media reports I’ve seen. Whatever you may think about a 16-year-old’s right to self-agency, and despite the misreporting from the right calling this pedophilia, it’s still problematic for a lot of people who are not “bigots.”

Others are free to disagree, but that’s my take.


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Addendum: Right-Wing Anti-Gay Bile

Right-wing influencer Matt Walsh crosses the line into ant-gay invective when discussing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to rename the USNS Harvey Milk at the start of Pride Month.

I understand conservative reaction to LGBTQ+ wokiness, but pure, unadulterated hate toward gay people is still potent on the right, along with racism and anti-Semitism.

From his video, 11 minutes in, Wash claims:

“He [Milk] was a champion of the quote gay rights movement, and what good has come of that exactly? In what way has the quote gay rights movement improved society? Look around at society right now what area can you point to and say “Oh yeah, that is better now right?” Like people’s lives are better in this area because of this person and because of this movement. I don’t think you can do that.”

So you have Walsh’s complete lack of awareness of what gay lives are like, and especially were like under sodomy laws, conversion therapies (the real kind), mainstream religious denunciations of our humanity, and intense, daily, all-encompassing family and social ostracization.

Then Walsh continues with a straw-man argument:

“Every leftist will tell you that Harvey Milk deserves to be honored and remembered more than somebody like Columbus. Columbus, who is responsible for one of the great achievements in the history of Western civilization. Our entire civilization looks different in in a in fundamental ways we can’t even conceive of if Columbus didn’t exist.”

Well sure, Harvey Milk wasn’t Christopher Columbus. But hardly every naval ship or military installation is named for a Columbus. Most are often named for people who are otherwise unknown to the vast majority.

Does Walsh think this is actually a convincing line of argument? Apparently so, and so do his fawning, equally or even-more-homophobic right-wing commenters.

So we have the woke LGBTQ+ left and the still potent anti-gay right, and actual gay and lesbian people caught in the crossfire.


My Substack column:

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Pride’s Wrong Turn

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Another Pride Month, and the annual celebration keeps morphing into something fewer gay people can be proud of. Instead of equal rights under the law and marriage equality, Pride now celebrates medical transitioning to change the sex of gender-nonconforming kids and letting bio male students who identify as female dominate women’s high school and collegiate sports.

I’ve reposted my recent substack column and other takes below.


Fighting back, to reclaim our movement:

Pew has a big new survey on “LGBTQ” adults. If you want to find out what’s going on with gay and lesbian people, good luck. We are now conflated with bisexual women (half closeted and often in hetero relationships), with transgender people (with whom we have very little in common) and “queers” (a term that anyone, including heterosexuals, are invited to adopt). The erasure of gay men and lesbians as a distinct experience and group of people is now almost complete. It was accomplished by using language to make us completely invisible – in classic postmodern fashion. But when you do get some breakout for gays and lesbians, you find, for example, that 50 percent say they have a lot in common with straight people, compared with only 28 percent saying they have a lot in common with trans people. So why are we in an alliance with trans people and not straights? https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2025/05/29/the-experiences-of-lgbtq-americans-today/

– Andrew Sullivan

Read on Substack

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LGBTQ+ Keeps Spiraling Down, Down, Down

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TQ+ gets crazier and crazier, and increasingly homophobic and misogynistic. And the progressive left has chosen TQ+ insanity over LGB people, who now often find their advocates in the fight to protect gay kids and defend women’s spaces among Republicans and conservatives.

I’m glad LGB left-liberals are fighting back, but it will be a long, hard struggle given TQ+’s capture of the left and the Democratic party.

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Military Trans Ban Goes Forward

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On May 6, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Trump administration may proceed with a plan to bar transgender people from serving in the military. The one-page order — delivered over the dissent of the three liberal justices — lifted a ruling by a district court in western Washington state (Seattle/Tacoma) that had paused the administration’s ban.

The stay of the lower-court’s action allows the transgender exclusion to take effect while legal challenges continue, but suggests the highest court would ultimately uphold the executive branch’s right to set recruitment standards.

While big LGBTQ+ lobbies predictably denounced what they described as the Supreme Court’s sanctioning of anti-trans discrimination, not barring individuals dependent on cross-sex hormones seems a preferential exception to standard practice, rather than targeted discrimination. I discussed these issues in my Substack column, “How Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Might Be Defensible,” linked below.

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