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I’ve published in my Substack a longer version of my July 30 IGF CultureWatch post. I’ll leave the original post up but recommended clicking on the extended Substack version, linked to below.

One of the additions in the Substack version is a discussion of the Log Cabin Republicans announcement that they will now label themselves as an advocacy organization for LGB Republicans and conservatives, dropping the “T” they added to their self-description in 2015, and the reasons behind this decision.

And this: “Why Progressive Activists Are BIG MAD That Log Cabin Republicans Dropped the “T” And Why Gays Are Happy About It.”

Matthew Vines, in a Substack follow-up to his controversial New York Times op-ed arguing against “Queer” as an identity designation, tries to make the case for an “LGBT” identity coalition, without the anti-normative “Q+” that simply seeks to elevate transgressiveness.
What Vines doesn’t want to grapple with, however, is how transgenderism, or gender-identity ideology, itself undermines the concept of same-sex attraction as well as gay/lesbian and women’s rights.
Encouraging gender-nonconforming children to consider whether they were “born in the wrong body,” as many progressive school districts now do (with or without parental consent) followed by social transitioning that puts proto-gay or just gender-confused kids on the road to medicalization; allowing biological males who identify as female (often with limited or even without various medicalizations) to participate in girls’/women’s sports and have access to female-only spaces; and demanding that sexual attraction be defined by gender identity, not biological sex, are now all fundamental tenets of the “T” advocacy embedded in “LGBT.”
Which is why the growing LGB counter-movement goes its own way, without T and Q+.

Gay community and gay rights activism/politics were once intricately bound together. Now, what passes for gay community and LGBTQ+ activism/politics seem to be worlds apart, although many older gay men still heavily fund LGBTQ+ activist organizations, apparently unaware of the agenda these groups now support, such as transing gender-nonconforming gay and proto-gay kids and putting physically intact males who self-identify as female into girl’s and women’s locker rooms and sports.

From the Down Under, “Battle Lines Drawn as Gay, Trans Camps Square Off.”

But trans vs. gay may be the future generally. Via LGB Alliance Australia:

“Let’s be clear. ‘LGBTQIA+ no longer represents us. It now encompasses institutions that oppose the rights of lesbians, gay man and bisexual people, erasing our language, distorting our reality and mischaracterizing our rights as hate.”