The Backlash Is Real

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“Gender ideology” has re-opened the door to expressions of homophobia in the guise of being against LGBTQ+ craziness. All the more reason why the total embrace of TQ+ by formerly LGB groups is so counter-productive.


And this:


Along with the obvious positions that Americans overwhelming reject — social and/or medicalized transitioning of confused minors; males in girls sports — the pronoun and nonbinary madness is driving the backlash.


Relatedly, Detransitioner Maia Poet argues that “restricting access of gender medicine to legal adults (18 year olds and above, in most countries) will not be enough to meaningfully protect kids and young people from being harmed in mind and in body by gender ideology.” From her recent speech for Detrans Awareness Day:

We must understand that what started as a rogue medical experiment confined to a few European hospitals nearly a century ago, has morphed into a widespread ideological assault on reality which has invaded every institution within Western society, which has thoroughly pervaded youth culture. We are beyond the point where legislation alone is capable of neutralizing the threat of this ideology to our young people. If these kids are anything like me, they will need to be de-radicalized and they need proper mental healthcare and guidance. If we truly wish to end the death grip of gender ideology on our society, as a start, we need to face the distress that these children are facing in an aggressively honest, compassionate and practical way.

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Stonewall and Trans Ideology

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In “Lies, Myths, and Stonewall,” Martha Shelley, one of the founders of the Gay Liberation Front formed in the aftermath of the Stonewall riots, wrote:

Newspaper accounts at the time, and historians who interviewed hundreds of people, report that the rioters were mostly young white gay men. … Now it seems, however, that a subset of the trans movement has appropriated the history, along with various leftists who want to be seen as allies. About a year ago, Democracy Now! reported that the riots were led by “transwomen of color.” This is so far from actual events that I wrote to them trying to correct the misinformation but never heard back.
The way the legend goes these days is that two transwomen, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, led the Stonewall rebellion. … Here’s what I know and remember about Rivera and Johnson: First, they called themselves transvestites, not transgender. Few people, if any, identified as transgender in those days. They identified themselves as male or female at different times. Then, as Johnson herself said afterwards, she didn’t arrive at the Stonewall that evening until 2:00 am, long after the rebellion had started. Rivera was uptown all evening and never participated in the riots. I remember, myself, that immediately afterward they were not leaders of or even participants in the movement for gay rights.

Gay history and gay heroes are being erased, and gay people who speak out against this face the wrath of LGBTQ+ lobbies that have replaced what was once the movement for “gay liberation” and lesbian and gay equal rights.

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When You Control the Words People Can Use, You Can Control Their Thoughts

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How the AP Style Guide enforces gender ideology (via Breitbart):

ONE: Warns against “all views” in transgender coverage: The guide says to “avoid false balance [by] giving a platform to unqualified claims or sources in the guise of balancing a story by including all views.” “Do not use the term ‘transgenderism,’ which frames transgender identity as an ideology,” the guide demands.
TWO: Demands the use of “gender-affirming care”: The guide says to use the term to describe puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender-reassignment surgeries.
THREE: Opposes describing people by their biological sex: “Use the term sex assigned at birth instead of biological sex, birth gender, was identified at birth as, born a girl and the like,” the style guide states. “Avoid references to a transgender person being born a boy or girl, or phrasing like birth gender. Sex assigned at birth is the accurate terminology.”
“Since not all people fall under one of two categories for sex or gender — as in the cases of nonbinary and intersex people — avoid references to both, either or opposite sexes or genders,” according to the guide.


Relatedly, via Matt Osborne:

To tell a boy that he should put on pants is exactly the same as saying that he ought to un-alive himself: this is what the Trevor Project means by “trans rights.” … According to the Trevor Project, telling a lesbian girl she was born in the right body is “conversion therapy,” a “dangerous and discredited practice,” whereas the surgical mutilation and biochemical harms of gender quacks are life-saving settled science etcetera.


And this:

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Should the Military and Federal Agencies Celebrate LGBTQ Pride?

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Reposted from my Substack, why ending (or “pausing”) identity-focused celebrations is not an attack on our “rights”:

Lately, I have been seeing a lot of discussions in LGBTQ online groups decrying the ending of LGBTQ Pride commemorations and Pride Month celebrations in the military and federal government offices, and the State Department’s ordering that only the U.S. flag be flown and U.S. embassies and consulates around the world.

For example, “Going forward, DoD Components and Military Departments will not use official resources, to include man-hours, to host celebrations or events related to cultural awareness months,” the Department of Defense announced on Jan. 31. “Service members and civilians remain permitted to attend these events in an unofficial capacity outside of duty hours. Installations, units, and offices are encouraged to celebrate the valor and success of military heroes of all races, genders, and backgrounds.”

These developments are being described in somber tones as a rollback of LGBTQ “rights.”

In truth, what we as gays and lesbians sought in the pre- and post-Stonewall fight for legal equality was the “right” to be treated the same as our heterosexual peers, not to have the government require that our sexual orientation be celebrated by others.

The Trump administration’s “pausing for review” all identity-focused commemorations and celebrations is a statement that military service, especially, and the federal government, generally, should focus on what unites us as Americans. In our own community spheres, we can choose to celebrate our particular identities, whether based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or other defining factors. But that is not the role and constitutional mandate of the government.

Returning to that principle, while at the same time making clear that government must ensure equal opportunity and merit-based hiring and promotion, is what America is about at its best.

While the previous administration’s obsessive focus on DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) was overly broad to the point of self-parody, the current administration could by over-reacting by cancelling all recognition of our “strength through diversity.” But corrective action was needed, so at least for the immediate future jettisoning Pride Month in the military and federal agencies isn’t a lamentable loss; it’s a return to the proper role of government in a democratic republic.

In short, it is not the role of government to celebrate anyone’s sexual orientation. How did we come to think that it was?

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Trump Halts Sterilizing Minors and the ‘Rogues Gallery’ Response

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Adam Lehrer and Park MacDougald write in Tablet’s Daily Scroll (link below):

[After] Trump’s executive order halting “gender-affirming care” for minors, … New York City hospital NYU Langone canceled appointments for some children…. Trump’s executive order isn’t particularly reactionary but places our gender-affirming care practices in line with those of our allies; the United Kingdom, for example, banned puberty blockers for children under 18 last year.
Nevertheless, on Monday night, hundreds of people gathered in a park near NYU Langone’s before marching toward the hospital’s entrance to protest the cancellations. The rally was headed by speakers organized by local chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America and included a rogues’ gallery of New York’s left-wing political figures, including City Council member Tiffany Cában and actress and former candidate for governor Cynthia Nixon, whose son received transgender care from NYU Langone.


Added: On the IGF Facebook page, a commenter asked: “Do you understand the difference between Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity? It appears that you do not.”

I replied: “I don’t think a 9-year-old boy knows the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity. I do know that peer-reviewed studies overwhelming show that almost all kids with gender confusion or symptoms of gender dysphoria outgrew the sense they are “wrongly sexed” after puberty (and by their early 20s), and that of this cohort most turn out to be gay — if they weren’t put on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones that leave them permanently sterilized and unable to experience orgasm.”


And this!

Also: “[Dr. Erica Li] said there are signs many children who claim to be transgender or profess some other similar gender identity are victims of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a situation in which a person of influence makes up fake symptoms or is the cause of real symptoms in a child, in order for the adult to receive social approval.”

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