Andrew Doyle has some thoughts:
Worth repeating:
And:
Transgender Issues
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How Trump’s Transgender-Military Ban Might Have Been Defensible
The executive order would be more defensible if rather than veering into whether transitioning ones gender identity is dishonorable and untruthful, not to mention selfish, the administration had instead focused on practical issues. A point made in passing that should have been central is the reference to “the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved.”
An argument certainly could be made (but wasn’t) that just as insulin-dependent diabetics are barred from enlisting — as insulin can’t be guaranteed to deployed troops — so, too, it would seem reasonable to bar transgender personnel dependent on the lifelong use of cross-sex hormones, as people who have physically transitioned typically are. https://stephenhenrymiller.substack.com/p/how-trumps-transgender-military-ban
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Along similar lines, The Scroll’s Adam Lehrer reports:
Rob Smith, an openly gay combat veteran, argues that the removal of trans people from the military is the right move because, he says, transgender service members are non-deployable, meaning that while their treatments are covered by Veterans Affairs, they effectively can’t serve the military primarily because they require ongoing medical treatments that are not compatible with military readiness. So, while some are criticizing the removal of 8,000 service members from the military, Smith and others assert that the executive orders remove 8,000 non-deployable service members and replace them with 8,000 deployable members.
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The Sermon (and who is actually putting ‘gay kids’ at risk)
Ben Appel writes about the Inaugural prayer service sermon that LGBTQ+ activists and progressive media have been celebrating:
By now, you may have heard about the sermon that Bishop of Washington Mariann Edgar Budde delivered during the inaugural prayer service…. Near the end of her sermon, Budde addressed President Trump directly. “In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” she said. “There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families, some who fear for their lives.” …
I hadn’t planned to write about this topic until I came across a New York Times headline on Wednesday, which appeared to take a page right out of a Democratic strategist’s playbook. “Bishop Asks Trump to ‘Have Mercy’ on Immigrants and Gay Children,” the headline read. Yes, Budde did mention gay and lesbian kids as well as trans kids. But let’s not pretend that that’s the population the Democrats, the mainstream media, and LGBTQ activist organizations are constantly fretting about “protecting”: gay kids. …
We need to be very clear: President Trump’s executive order on “gender ideology extremism,” just like the Florida legislation before it, is a direct result of the total capture of our institutions by the pseudoscientific religious belief of gender ideology. If blue-haired radicals hadn’t entered schools and told kids that sex is “assigned” rather than simply observed, that the sex they feel like inside supersedes the material reality of their bodies, and that some kids don’t have a sex at all, then these measures wouldn’t even be a figment in the GOP’s imagination. …
For years now, gay people like me have been pleading with Democrats, mainstream news outlets, and activist organizations to consider the implications of affirming feminine boys and masculine girls as “transgender,” when the research (not to mention our own experiences) tells us that nearly all of these gender-dysphoric/gender-nonconforming/whatever-the-hell-you-want-to-call-them kids, if not socially transitioned, will grow up to be gay and choose not to medically transition. …
And this, a welcomed development:
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More Americans Oppose Female-Identifying Males in Women’s Sports
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Added: The LGB Alliance USA praises President Trump’s executive order. It’s arguable if the order goes too far by not recognizing adults who transition, but there’s no question that the ludicrous over-reach by transactivists, especially regarding putting gender-nonconforming kids on the trans train and obviously bio males in women’s locker rooms and sports teams, led to this.
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Even Most Democrats Oppose Medicalized Conversion Therapy for Minors
Just-released results from a New York Times/Ipsos poll show that 71% of Americans (including 54% of Democrats) believe…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Sunday, January 19, 2025
Ben Appel makes clear why big-money LGBTQ+ groups are so wrong:
And an Inauguration Day post from the LGBT Courage Coalition:
The LGBT Courage Coalition: "Protecting children from harmful medical interventions, ensuring fairness in sports, and preserving safety in women’s spaces are critical first steps." https://t.co/uG878G234V
— CultureWatch (@IndeGayForum) January 20, 2025
A thought from the LGB Alliance: “Some people believe girls who like football need puberty blockers and a double mastectomy. We believe they need football boots.”
— LGB Alliance (@AllianceLGB) December 24, 2019
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Boys and Girls
Andrew Doyle writes: >>Of all the absurdities of the culture war, perhaps the most egregious is the normalisation of the…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Wednesday, January 15, 2025
As the Post-Millennial reports, the bill amends Title IX to read:
It shall be a violation of subsection (a) for a recipient of Federal financial assistance who operates, sponsors, or facilitates an athletic program or activity to permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls. … [Sex under the amendment] shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth. …
Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit a recipient from permitting males to train or practice with an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls so long as no female is deprived of a roster spot on a team or sport, opportunity to participate in a practice or competition, scholarship, admission to an educational institution, or any other benefit that accompanies participating in the athletic program or activity.
I will never get over the Democrats backing males in women’s sports… and then spreading BS like this to try to coerce sane people into siding with them. They have lost me for good. https://t.co/OVndRaMtVO
— Ben Appel (@benappel) January 16, 2025
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Hopes and Warnings for 2025
Andrew Doyle’s wish list for 2025 includes “a complete ban on puberty blockers” and that “we need to stop basing public…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Friday, January 3, 2025
Clearly, the fight to protect gay kids will heat up this year, with the LGBTQ+ left all-in on promoting transitioning for gender-nonconforming kids, most of whom we know would otherwise go through puberty and recognize themselves as gay. Here are a few worthwhile recent posts on this struggle.
Jesse Singal writes: >>It’s very strange to deny the possibility that social transition may alter a child’s…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Tuesday, December 31, 2024
And:
Matt Margolis writes: >>A user on X accused [J.K. Rowling] of having a “hateful focus on trans kids” and declared it…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Monday, December 30, 2024
An interesting idea:
The “Our Duty” Substack argues that “transgender ideation” is a better term than “gender dysphoria”: >> Terms like "…
Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Monday, December 23, 2024
And worth repeating:
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Why Minors Should Not Be Put on Puberty Blockers
Ben Appel puts it on the line in this excerpt from his newsletter:
Click above for his full article, which is well worth reading.
Expect more sad stories such as this on about detransitioners who recognize they are gay, not trans:
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
Relatedly, worth noting. Wesley Yang writes:
The transgender issue only affects a small handful of people directly. But it’s more important than any other cultural issue, with the widest implications. All those who scoff at my single-minded focus on it are wrong.
It touches on every aspect of American political economy and knowledge formation, every aspect of its manners and mores, every aspects of American character formation, and is the linchpin of the Therapeutic Statism that is the new secularized pseudo-theology at the foundation of institutional America’s warrant to rule.
Any understanding of this issue that does not credit its overarching importance is profoundly defective.
The transgender issue only affects a small handful of people directly. But it's more important than any other cultural issue, with the widest implications. All those who scoff at my single-minded focus on it are wrong.
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) December 29, 2024
It touches on every aspect of American political economy…
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More on Supreme Court Skrmetti Hearing
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
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Gay Activism: New vs. Old
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