My latest Substack column.
Justice Jackson seems to be laboring under the delusion that there already is universal school choice in America.
The difference is you don’t have to come up with thousands of dollars to send your kid to a private bakery while still funding the public bakery with your tax dollars.
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) April 24, 2025
This captures so much about what “queer theory” and LGBTQ+ has led to.
Some guy who got a massive grant that my lab got turned down for writes about queering rivers and streams. Tough pill to swallow…
— RodeoProfessor (@RodeoProfessor) April 17, 2025
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Again, to those who respond that I don’t understand the difference between gender identity and sexual orientation, I respond that I do but a 10-year-old does not.
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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.
Plus:
Voters aren’t likely to put up with this much longer:
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And looking, more broadly, on how the movement lost its way:
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.
And relatedly, worth repeating: