Was TQ+ Surge a Fad or Contagion?

A 4 percent rate of trans self-identification for American college students is still ridiculously high.




Stop the celebration?


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His high school “gay-straight alliance,” instead of focusing on homophobia and acceptance of being gay, promoted transitioning for students who were gender nonconforming. In college, he became further immersed in the gender-transition ideology pushed by faculty and supported by administrators.



Lauren Leggierico, co-executive director of the LGB Courage Coalition, tells Mariah Burton Nelson: >>Gay functions nowadays are mostly trans. You go to a lesbian party – and it’s not even called a lesbian party. It’s called a queer women’s party. There’s no one under thirty that looks like me: gender nonconforming. They are all medicalized. They’re all “trans men.”<< https://strongerwomen.substack.com/p/when-girls-who-would-have-been-lesbians

– Stephen Henry Miller

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‘Conversion Therapy’ Before the Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court just heard arguments on a Colorado law that bans “conversion therapy” for those under age 18, defined as efforts to change a minor client’s gender identity or sexual orientation, including “behaviors or gender expressions.” The law, however, allows therapy that provides “assistance to a person undergoing gender transition.”
The problem, once again, is the facile comparison of attempts to change sexual orientation, which have been proven to cause harm, and therapy aimed at helping gender-nonconforming kids find peace with their physical sex. In the latter case, we know that most gender-confused minors outgrow any bodily dysphoria and many, perhaps most, come to recognize they are gay, not transgender, if they are not socially and medically transitioned.
Combining “change therapy” targeting sexual orientation and gender identity under the same rubric is one of the worst consequences of replacing the lesbian and gay rights movement with LGBTQ+ advocacy.

Added: The media reporting on this case uniformly doesn’t acknowledge that two very different types of therapy for minors are being commingled — attempts to change sexual orientation (bad and anti-gay) and attempts to help gender nonconforming kids (largely proto-gay) to be more at ease with their physical sex (good and pro-gay).





The Free Press gets it rights:





Related: His high school “gay-straight alliance,” instead of focusing on homophobia and acceptance of being gay, promoted transitioning for students who were gender nonconforming. In college, he became further immersed in the gender-transition ideology pushed by faculty and supported by administrators.



In Key November Elections, the ‘Pro-LGBTQ+’ Democrats Aren’t ‘Pro-Gay’



Virginia’s Democratic nominee for governor, Abigail Spanberger, can’t bring herself to oppose biological males in women’s sports.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/abigail-spanberger-virginia-dem-gov-hopeful-ripped-for-weak-kamala-answer-on-trans-athletes



Spanberger has also urged her supporters to “let your rage fuel you” against political opponents. Hint: “rage” rarely leads to constructive engagement, but in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder and rising violence on the left, it’s, let’s say, deplorable.

Meanwhile, the Democratic candidate for Attorney General running with her, Jay Jones, sent text messages in 2022 discussing shooting then-Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert and wishing death to his children because “only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”

Thoughts on the Trans Restroom Issue

I recently commented on an Eliza Mondegreen Substack post in which she discussed how her views on transmen in women’s spaces has changed, including her current opposition to transmen using women’s restrooms.

The thread is linked to below, but here are some highlights of what I contributed.

“If, say, a man has surgically transitioned into a transwoman and passes adequately as a woman (although I agree, he’s not actually a woman), he really can’t walk into a men’s restroom. That just isn’t going to work. So, what is this person to do? If he’s adequately passing in dress and appearance, he is going to walk into the women’s restroom and use a stall there. Passing laws and putting up signs forbidding this just won’t work, and it’s going to make the gender-critical side look intolerant, and even cruel.
Yes, I’m a guy so maybe I don’t get it. But I do agree about locker rooms and showers, as well as women’s crisis centers and women’s and lesbian-only social spaces. But restrooms seem a different matter, and some flexibility in practice on this is going to be needed, it seems.”

Elsewhere in the tread, I commented:

Legally requiring a male who for all intents and purposes appears to be female to use the men’s restroom, where he is seen as a woman by other men, seems like it would do more to undermine society’s sex binary (and to open the door to restrooms being treated as “gender-neutral”) than allowing the transwoman who (again, for all intents and purposes) passes as a woman, to use the women’s restroom.

And this:

Men won’t accept a person who for all intents and purposes they judge to be a woman (even if yes, an illusion) walking into a men’s room…. It just won’t happen. Believe me. But if that person walks into a woman’s restroom, and if that person appears to be a woman and uses a stall, that is not going to cause a commotion. So, it’s not the same thing.
This is not to say that a person who is obviously male but “identifies” as female should use the women’s room. But there are plenty of transwomen who are passing. …
Similarly, if a transman who passes as a man walks into a men’s room and uses a stall (obviously not a urinal), I don’t see a problem. Laws making this criminal just aren’t going to work in either situation.

And this:

….if the men believe that a woman has entered the men’s room (and yes, many mtf transsexuals can pass), there will absolutely be derisive comments and maybe any close-by authorities (building management, police) would be sought to oust that person to what seems to be their appropriate restroom.

I also noted, however:

As a practical matter, a transwoman who is actually passing as female, and many who have “fully transitioned” (yes, still not an actual woman) do “pass,” this person is not going to go into a men’s room but will use they women’s restroom. That’s just what’s going to happen.
I think [Eliza Mondegren’s] comment … strikes the right note — have policies against men in women’s restrooms (and vice versa) so that the transman can be evicted if perceived as male. That provides a safeguard against the pervs with beards who say they identify as a woman but we all know what they’re up to.

https://elizamondegreen.substack.com/p/where-ive-changed-my-mind-over-the-ed0/comments

Democrat Presidential Wannabees Trip Over Trans Issues

I’ve updated my post looking at how potential “moderate” Democratic presidential candidates are trying to appeal to centrists on transgender issues while not provoking too negative a response from the party’s increasingly gender-extreme base.

How’s that working out?

I take a look at the views and actions of former Chicago mayor and Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanual, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro, and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — as well as California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is by no means a moderate but made a brief feint at playing one.

https://stephenhenrymiller.substack.com/p/democrat-presidential-wannabees-trip



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Under LGBTQ+, Gay & Lesbian Health Becomes Collateral Damage

Efforts to eliminate taxpayer spending for sex-trait modification procedures (or “gender-affirming care” in progressive-speak) have put funding at risk for gay and lesbian healthcare – including AIDS prevention. That’s because gay/lesbian and trans services now fall together under the rubric of “LGBTQ+ healthcare.”

On June 24, the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Nashville laid off five staff members from its LGBTQ Health program. The cuts were linked to the Trump administration’s moves to stop universities and hospitals from using federal funds for sex-trait modification services and to curtail diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that favor some identity groups over others.

Campus Reform reports that the university’s “Trans Buddy Program”:

… aimed to embed gender ideology in health care by assigning volunteers to advocate for transgender-identifying patients during medical visits, free of charge. … On the description page for VUMC’s “Program for LGBTQ Health,” the institution describes it as “an innovative effort to improve healthcare for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) adults.”

In another recent development, Congress’s July rescissions package to reduce government spending initially included cuts to PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, an initiative George W. Bush launched in 2003 to combat AIDS around the world. In this instance, the program drew opposition for being foreign aid and well as LGBTQ+ focused. After lobbying by the Log Cabin Republicans and others, the administration agreed to exempt the PEPFAR cuts from the recissions bill.

The fact that advocates for “gender-affirming care” label sex-transitioning services “LGBTQ+ healthcare” puts a target on funding for traditional healthcare for gays and lesbians—one more way in which, under LGBTQ+, gays and lesbians have become collateral damage.

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