Ben Appel puts it on the line in this excerpt from his newsletter:
Ben Appel writes: >>The problem with all of this—besides the fact that it’s insane—is that the vast majority of the…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Saturday, December 14, 2024
Click above for his full article, which is well worth reading.
More here:
LGBT Courage Coalition and LeAnne Owen write: >>Born in 1975, just six years after me, [detransitioner Corinna Cohn's]…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Andrew Sullivan posted this comment regarding the Supreme Court hearing on whether a state can ban sex-change procedures…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Well worth listening too:
Another excellent panel discussion that includes several organizers of the Supreme Court rally against transitioning…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Tuesday, December 10, 2024
LGBTQ+ activists say this doesn’t happen:
The New York Post reports: >>Clementine Breen, now 20, filed a medical negligence lawsuit against Dr. Johanna…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Saturday, December 7, 2024
Here’s hoping.
In the U.K. Next June we'll learn if the U.S. Supreme Court will let states here in the U.S. protect gender-nonconforming gay kids by doing the same.
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Thursday, December 12, 2024
This is really so sad:
Ed Driscoll posts at Instapundit: >>ANNETTE BENING SAYS THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD ABOUT HAVING A “TRANS CHILD:” Let’s look…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Tuesday, December 10, 2024
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.
More from Ben Appel and the important work that groups like the LGBT Courage Coalition are doing. Ben writes: >>An…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Friday, December 6, 2024
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:
Daniel Cameron writes that the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index has steadily increased leftwing demands…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Thursday, December 5, 2024
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.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 9, 2024
This garbage is everywhere. They’re after your kids. pic.twitter.com/rUXuaiUfwk
The 'trans the kids' left is already howling and a ruling isn't expected until June. Meanwhile, Biden-appointed Justice…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Ben Appel writes: >>Now, instead of making more space for gender-nonconformity, we’re medicalizing it. Instead of…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Here’s Ben Appel’s speech at the rally outside the Supreme Court:
Speaking truth to power through the shivers!! Go @benappel !!! pic.twitter.com/FDD6yX7FVq
— MaryCate Delvey (@marycatedelvey) December 4, 2024
And this:
An older transwoman talked to me when I was 21 or so about my interest in transitioning.
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) December 4, 2024
'You'll spend the rest of your life asking yourself why you gave up being a cute, but insecure, gay man and trapped yourself in the body of someone who kind of looks like a woman.'
I'm grateful every day I didn't transition.
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) December 4, 2024
I didn't give up a future I could have never imagined for myself.
I didn't trap myself.
I didn't find out too late that it wasn't the answer to my pain.
Someone who knew, told me the truth.
That's why I speak out today.
Unbelievable, and absolutely believable:
Rice: "How many minors have to have their bodies irreparably harmed for unproven benefits?"
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 4, 2024
Sotomayor: "Every medical treatment has risk. Even taking Aspirin." pic.twitter.com/I4k8ujr5Hl
Put more simply: https://t.co/8PV9JLTsef
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) December 5, 2024
At issue: whether Tennessee and other states should be allowed to ban puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Saturday, November 23, 2024
Ironic, isn’t it:
LeAnne Owen writes: >>Alabama—where progress usually moves slower than Sunday traffic after church—just helped make the…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Tuesday, November 26, 2024
As we await next year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on state laws blocking so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors (including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, removing girl’s breasts and castrating boys), some state court’s are upholding laws passed by state legislatures banning these procedures:
Missouri Circuit Court Judge Craig Carter has issued a sweeping ruling upholding the state’s ban on sex-change…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Wednesday, November 27, 2024
At age 16, Laura Becker says she “learned about the concept of ‘gender identity’—a discovery (if that is the right word)…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Thursday, November 21, 2024
When one parent wants to trans their child, and the other parent wants to save their child from life-long medicalization, bodily mutilation, sterility and the inability to experience orgasm as adults, guess who woke judges side with:
Via The Distance: A Minnesota father faces prison for objecting to his child's mother transitioning their daughter…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Worth repeating:
Sam Harris writes: >>I want to be very clear about this: I have no doubt that there are real cases of gender dysphoria,…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Plus:
At WokeSpy, Josh Slocum writes: >> I was born in 1974, and grew up before it occurred to any sane person that a child…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Friday, November 8, 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.
Andrew Sullivan writes: >>…the transqueer activists then portray themselves as merely the latest people to be “on the…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Friday, November 15, 2024
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+.
— Ben Appel (@benappel) November 9, 2024
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
If you have an hour to spare, watch Brianna Wu on a post-election TRIGGERnometry podcast, on how Democrats (she's one) lost their way on gender and other issues.
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Friday, November 15, 2024
The progressive left’s embrace of promoting the transing of gender-nonconforming kids and letting boys who “identify” as female compete against girls in high school and college sports was one of the reasons sane people chose to vote for Trump, despite everything. Sadly, a rationale approach to treating transgender adults is lost in the extremism targeting (often gay) kids for transitioning, or letting gender-dysphoric boys or often-fetishicistic men (who “identify” as female but are physically male) use women’s locker rooms and showers.
When progressives are challenged, their response is typically to end the debate by lobbing the accusation of “transphobe” or “fascist.” The “slur” in the clip below that caused the progressive to throw a tantrum was referring to male minors who identify as female (or, who have been indoctrinated into getting on the trans train because they are gender-nonconforming) as “boys.”
This is an amazing clip, because it shows exactly how our debates end up being rigged by those who claim offense. The solution—“solution”—that is suggested is for Singleton to completely concede his position. It’s “do carry on, but not with the view you were expressing.” https://t.co/u66QCqV58E
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 9, 2024
And this:
Rich Lowry writes: >>The problem is that progressives consider whatever new boutique obsession they’ve come up with at…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Sunday, November 10, 2024
Plus this, from liberal Sam Harris, who endorsed Kamala:
Sam Harris writes: >>I want to be very clear about this: I have no doubt that there are real cases of gender dysphoria,…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Tuesday, November 12, 2024
And from another sane liberal:
Nick Tyrone writes: >>If you’re a grown-up, have had an adequate amount of therapy to rule out other possibilities and…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Ben Appel explains in Why I’m Not Voting why he can’t vote for a political party whose policies put gender-nonconforming gay kids at risk:
The progressive position, embraced by Democrats, used to be that there was no “right way” to be a boy or a girl. That boys can like dolls and girls can play football. Not so today. Today, so-called progressives tell young boys that if they like pink, mermaids, and long, flowing dresses, they might be girls “on the inside,” and they tell young girls that if they prefer short hair and hate makeup, they might really be boys.
What we have known for years, decades, maybe centuries, is that most gender-nonconforming children—that is, butch girls or girly boys, like the sissy little boy I once was—will grow up to be gay. And yet the Democratic Party advocates for medical treatments that block the natural development of these young people. Medical treatments that leave them sterile and often sexually nonfunctional. Medical treatments that began as nothing more than an attempt to turn homosexual young people into straight adults.
Talk about conversion therapy!
This is not progressive. This is regressive, illiberal, and antigay.
And, like Donald Trump’s election denial, it is inexcusable.
Note: When I tried to post this on the IGF CultureWatch Facebook page, Facebook’s censors removed it as “inappropriate.” It’s true, Facebook is censoring posts that its progressive gate-keepers see as critical of Democrats on the eve of the election!
More from Ben, post-election:
Ben Appel’s election reflections, which hopefully Facebook’s moderators won’t remove (as they did my attempts to post…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Friday, November 8, 2024
And this:
Here's hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court next year will allow U.S. states to do the same.
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Friday, November 8, 2024
Andrew Sullivan explains how so-called gender-affirming chemical and surgical treatment:
…overwhelmingly targets gay kids. In Britain they became the vast majority of the children sent for sex reassignment, before it was banned outside a clinical trial. And we know that these “doctors” have no way of objectively knowing whether a child is actually trans or gay or depressed or autistic — and yet they also oppose any broad mental health assessment of a child, if that child has simply declared himself or herself the opposite sex.
This is not forgivable. It demands accountability. These “doctors” know full well that their experiments have no basis in science, that thousands of gay detransitioners have had their lives and bodies destroyed, and yet continue to experiment on children, without knowing if they are actually trans, of if they are gay, or bi, or autistic, or in a social contagion. Worse, every allegedly gay group — GLAAD, HRC, Trevor Project, Lambda Legal, ACLU, et al. — supports this as an ideological transqueer “necessity” and will allow no debate and no dissent.
Sullivan concludes, “What has happened — what is still happening — is the worst attack on gay kids since Anita Bryant. But this time, the danger is coming from inside the house.”
Andrew Doyle, along similar lines:
And worth repeating: