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Newer organizations such as the LGBT Courage Coalition and the LGB Alliance USA focus on protecting gays and lesbians — and gay kids — while the intersectional queer ideologues who run the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, and other groups threaten the hard-won advances of earlier generations.

Unfortunately, so many well-intentioned gay people continue to fund the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), thinking it’s the same organization that it was 10 years ago:

Also sadly, local/regional LGBTQ+ groups are often no better, pushing gender-confused gay kids onto the trans train. Increasing, LGBTQ+ = anti-gay.

Prattville Pride in Alabama is raising money to buy chest binders and shapewear for kids who think they’re trans. This is the same organization which boasted about having the “gayest” Christmas parade float ever.

This garbage is everywhere. They’re after your kids. pic.twitter.com/rUXuaiUfwk

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 9, 2024

Andrew Sullivan explores further how the Democrats lost their way. He writes, regarding the party’s support for bio-male boys playing in girls’ sports and sex-transitioning for gender-nonconforming kids:

One thing you notice about the [social justice warrior] pushback: they never actually rebut any of the concerns about fairness in sports, which is the nub of the issue. They don’t rebut it, because they cannot rebut it, even though some have tried. Nor do they ever engage with the fast-changing facts and research on “gender-affirming care,” i.e. sex reassignment for children. In fact, they do all they can to suppress journalism and hound reporters because this subject has been determined “not up for debate.”

And so transness is sacralized, made inviolable, and any weighing of the evidence is regarded not as part of a reasonable debate but as a kind of blasphemy.

More from Sullivan below.

Here’s Guy Benson on the fear-mongering by LGBTQ+ activists that’s left many gay people convinced their marriages are about to be annulled (so send you checks today!!!!):

:Exhales: Okay, here we go: No. 1) Obergefell isn’t going anywhere & I’d bet SCOTUS lacks the votes (they’d need 4) to even take up a hypothetical challenge. 2) Even if they somehow overturned that case (they won’t), Congress passed a bipartisan law, signed by Biden, further protecting/enshrining same-sex marriage. 3) SCOTUS expanded LGBT protections in a ruling authored by a Trump appointee (Bostock/Gorsuch). 4) Whatever else you think of him, Donald Trump is *openly pro-SSM.* He even hosted a gay wedding at his house. I’m not asking liberal or progressive gays to become Republicans. I am asking them to stop fear-mongering about this.

And posted by Ben Appel:

TGNCIQ+.
Trans, gender-nonconforming, intersex, queer plus.
This acronym is as insane as the previous one, if not more so, but at the moment I’m perfectly OK with it.
I guess there’s a TQ without the LGB after all. https://t.co/7K0X6fd8ut

— Ben Appel (@benappel) November 9, 2024