More and more gays and lesbians are realizing what’s happened:
Pride’s Wrong Turn
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:
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LGBTQ+ Keeps Spiraling Down, Down, Down
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.
Everyone was like "the Democrats will have to moderate on this issue, it's an 80-20 issue, they can't fight public opinion forever."
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) May 25, 2025
No, they will literally mandate every public accommodation in the state must use the preferred pronoun of anyone claiming a cross-sex identity,… https://t.co/uXGMpLcmv1
Wow. @GovofCO just signed a bill forcing all of us to pay for elective transgender-affirming procedures… this bill even includes a slush fund to circumvent Medicaid no longer covering this.
— Erin for Parental Rights (@Erin4Parents) May 23, 2025
Women of CO: you will all now be paying for men’s breast implants, laser hair removal… https://t.co/Xpws2T5SwW
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Military Trans Ban Goes Forward
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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HHS Study Challenges Affirmation-Only Model for Treating Minors with Gender Dysphoria
Added: My latest Substack column:
Added (use archived link to view full Washington Post editorial):
From the Washington Post’s comments on its editorial:
Doug Tynan, May 11, 2025: “As a child psychologist who reviewed much of this research literature at the request of a consultant to insurance companies, I must agree with this editorial, the Cass Report and the outlines of this HHS report. The existing research is limited, short term, and does not apply to many of the patients involved, including the large number of children with autism syndrome (about 10% of some gender clinics). It also ignores older studies that show most effeminate boys simply grow up to be gay men, questioning the need for transition for many patients. All of us in the health professions need to step back, take the time to review these reports and then do what is best for the people we serve.”
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More on the report below:
Here’s a link to the full study pdf: Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria Review of Evidence and Best Practices.
The report notes that lesbian girls and gay boys have often been misdiagnosed as gender dysphoric and subjected to “gender transition” drugs and surgeries, often because their parents, their doctors, or they themselves believe changing their bodies is preferable to being homosexual. Excerpts from the report below:
“[Christian Hamburger, a Copenhagen endocrinologist] Perhaps Hamburger felt a special compassion for homosexuals because his sister was a lesbian. Despite Denmark’s comparatively liberal national policies, Hamburger surely knew from his sister’s experience how discrimination against gays and lesbians could be profoundly troubling for a homosexual. He could offer no medical intervention to help his sister, but he believed there might be some steps he could take to help George Jorgensen, and he was willing to try.”
“Given clinician reports of his self-reported sexual behavior and desires, it is almost certain that George was gay.”
“See also Chapter 3 for the influential case of George/Christine Jorgensen and the subsequent wave of predominantly lesbian and gay people who sought medical transition.”
“Also apparently ignored was the related possibility that transition may appeal to young gay men and lesbians suffering from social disapproval of their homosexuality.”
“The previously observed tendency for early-onset GD [gender dysphoria] patients to be gay continued with the Dutch cohort. Of the initial group of 70, only one reported heterosexuality; the other 69 reported either homosexuality (62), bisexuality (six), or “don’t know yet” (one).”
“That is, the original Dutch Protocol patient cohort was comprised almost entirely of gay, lesbian, and bisexual patients—one of whom died as a result of surgical complications from vaginoplasty following pubertal blockade and cross-sex hormones.”
“Given the medical profession’s history of pathologizing and medicalizing same-sex attraction, serious justice-related concerns are raised by the overrepresentation of gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents among patients receiving unproven interventions that adversely impact fertility and sexual function.”
“There is evidence that the specter of being labeled a “conversion therapist”— a damaging accusation given the profession’s history with the mistreatment of gay people—has created a climate of anxiety among mental health professionals. Therapists worry that failing to affirm or recommend medical interventions for youth who meet the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s (WPATH) eligibility criteria could jeopardize their careers and reputations.
“The gay people pushed to change their gender.”
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Supreme Court Weighs Opt Outs for LGBTQ+ Lessons
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
And relatedly:
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‘Queer’ Distorts Everything
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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Britain’s Supreme Court Rules on Women’s Rights
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Will U.S. Courts Protect Gay Kids?
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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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LGBTQ Excludes Gays Whose Beliefs Challenge Progressive Dogma
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