Also of interest:
Culture & Identity
Fresh Takes on ‘Drag Queen Story Hours’
Not “groomers” and shouldn’t be outlawed. But let’s not pretend activists don’t have an agenda for promoting DQSH.
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Gays and Lesbian Kids Encouraged to Jump on the Trans Train
The gay to transgender pipeline amongst people under 25 is wild.
— Fredward (@Fredward_III) December 21, 2022
Yup. I was one of two in my class’s “LGB”T+ pride club who graduated as just LGB. To my knowledge, only 1 entered the club as a T. It has been wild – so wild I had to write a book discussing it.
— Margaret Wetzel (@MargaretJWetzel) December 22, 2022
Or maybe the tide is turning, and least in some places:
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‘Gay’ vs. ‘Queer’
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What Gender-Queer Ideologues and Fundamentalist Theocrats Have in Common
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Thou Shall Not Question Woke Holy Writ
Added: More about the woke-left’s protests against the New York Times for daring to report there is debate among doctors over the speed at which gender nonconforming kids are being rushed into medicalized transitioning.
The key premise of the NYT letter is that coverage resources are misplaced because nothing important has changed in youth gender treatment. And that is demonstrably untrue. https://t.co/JPdDHZso9E
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) February 16, 2023
Read Jonathan Chait on the media mob that tried to silence this reporting in the NYT:https://t.co/ohRf3Fgi2f
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) February 16, 2023
And this:
A @nytimes opinion columnist writes a defense of JK Rowling. You can agree or disagree with the piece, just as you can agree or disagree with JKR. But should “human rights” organizations really be in the business of demanding that ONLY perspectives they agree with be published? https://t.co/aevqI9UJyU
— Jacob Mchangama (@JMchangama) February 17, 2023
This is not only unprincipled but also self-defeating. Very likely a huge proportion of Americans have more conflicting views on trans and gender issues than @HRC. Only tolerance for differing views – not least those of minorities – permit trans-activist a prominent voice.
— Jacob Mchangama (@JMchangama) February 17, 2023
And Andrew Sullivan weighs in:
And yet the LGBTQ+ woke brigades care not about any of the evidence. Anyone who points out what’s actually happening, most often to gender-nonconforming gay and lesbian kids, is a “TERF” or a “homocon” or some other silly, dismissive insult lobbied by people who shut down their brains long ago to anything outside of the woke-progressive narrative that they parrot with a veracity that makes religious fundamentalists seem like pikers.
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Exposing the Fallout of Medically Transitioning Minors
As the evidence of destroyed lives keeps mounting, woke LGBTQ+ activists choose not to see or hear what’s happening, secure in the destructive narrative they continue to promote.
Jamie Reed provides deeply disturbing examples of “how little patients understood what they were getting into,” for example:
Three months later she called the surgeon’s office to say she was going back to her birth name and that her pronouns were “she” and “her.” Heartbreakingly, she told the nurse, “I want my breasts back.” The surgeon’s office contacted our office because they didn’t know what to say to this girl.
My colleague and I said that we would reach out. It took a while to track her down, and when we did we made sure that she was in decent mental health, that she was not actively suicidal, that she was not using substances. The last I heard, she was pregnant. Of course, she’ll never be able to breastfeed her child.
She also writes:
Then I came across comments from Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman who is a high official at the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The article read: “Levine, the U.S. assistant secretary for health, said that clinics are proceeding carefully and that no American children are receiving drugs or hormones for gender dysphoria who shouldn’t.”
I felt stunned and sickened. It wasn’t true. And I know that from deep first-hand experience.
So I started writing down everything I could about my experience at the Transgender Center. Two weeks ago, I brought my concerns and documents to the attention of Missouri’s attorney general. He is a Republican. I am a progressive. But the safety of children should not be a matter for our culture wars.
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Progressive School Districts and Woke Conversion Therapy
Thread: how the trans cult is hurting gay children. https://t.co/YmxjzVtLUU
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) January 26, 2023
Many women are Tomboys growing up. This is me at 10/11 in the early ’90s. I wore androgynous/”masculine” clothes until around 23; friends and interests also skewed masculine.
— Nina Power (@Nina_Compact) January 23, 2023
Not a single person ever suggested any of these things made me a boy or a man. We have gone backwards. pic.twitter.com/4GTA1yq6fR
And worth repeating from an earlier post (click on replies, below, to read the responses with numerous examples):
The gay to transgender pipeline amongst people under 25 is wild.
— Fredward (@Fredward_III) December 21, 2022
And this:
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Gays a Minority Within LGBTQ+
Woke progressives don’t like drawing attention to how gay people are a now a minority among those using the LBTQ+ or “queer” labels to identify themselves, which is a good indicator of why it’s important to focus on this development.
Yup. I was one of two in my class’s “LGB”T+ pride club who graduated as just LGB. To my knowledge, only 1 entered the club as a T. It has been wild – so wild I had to write a book discussing it.
— Margaret Wetzel (@MargaretJWetzel) December 22, 2022
New pride flag just dropped. Soon they’ll have completely covered up and erased the gay part of it lol pic.twitter.com/qBmBrkVTjZ
— UNDΘΘMΞD (@Undoomed) December 20, 2022
Added:
A TikToker has made a video explaining the difference between gay and queer, saying a person cannot be queer unless they are participating in queer politics, adding that if a person hasn’t worn a mask for a week, that also means they’re not queer.https://t.co/Zg68NmyZBT
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 1, 2023
2022 was a momentous year for LGB Alliance. Finally UK society started to become aware of the difference between LGB sexual orientation and TQ+ identity politics. Let’s review some key moments in the year we cut through!
— LGB Alliance (@ALLIANCELGB) December 31, 2022
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The Trans Project’s Internal Contradictions
If I was born about 5 years earlier, I’d probably still have my breasts. I would’ve been nothing more than a tomboy.
— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) December 21, 2022
If you “don’t need surgery and hormones to be trans” then why is the regressive left so hell-bent on getting kids to get those very same things?
— Arielle Scarcella (@ArielleScarcell) December 20, 2022