Transgender Issues

Pride’s Wrong Turn

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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:

Pew has a big new survey on “LGBTQ” adults. If you want to find out what’s going on with gay and lesbian people, good luck. We are now conflated with bisexual women (half closeted and often in hetero relationships), with transgender people (with whom we have very little in common) and “queers” (a term that anyone, including heterosexuals, are invited to adopt). The erasure of gay men and lesbians as a distinct experience and group of people is now almost complete. It was accomplished by using language to make us completely invisible – in classic postmodern fashion. But when you do get some breakout for gays and lesbians, you find, for example, that 50 percent say they have a lot in common with straight people, compared with only 28 percent saying they have a lot in common with trans people. So why are we in an alliance with trans people and not straights? https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2025/05/29/the-experiences-of-lgbtq-americans-today/

– Andrew Sullivan

Read on Substack

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LGBTQ+ Keeps Spiraling Down, Down, Down

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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.

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Supreme Court Weighs Opt Outs for LGBTQ+ Lessons

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My latest Substack column.


Justice Jackson seems to be laboring under the delusion that there already is universal school choice in America.


And relatedly:

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The Backlash Is Real

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More:

“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.

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Stonewall and Trans Ideology

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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.

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