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Gay rights protected a stigmatized minority without disrupting everyone else’s life. Trans rights aim to make everyone reject biology, indulge delusion, accept child sexualization, and treat sex as a spectrum requiring pronouns. Gay rights is losing appeal because its champions… https://t.co/5747XT924S

— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) June 4, 2026

Andrew Sullivan on how the radical queer left is undermining support for legal same-sex marriage:

"Marriage equality was a huge blow to the queer left. They hated the idea that gay men and women could just be normies, primarily interested in getting on with their lives,… pic.twitter.com/sYUbqmidgU

— Nancy Pearcey (@NancyRPearcey) June 5, 2026

And alternatively:

Conversion therapy bans conflate sexual orientation and gender identity, and so also seek to ban talk therapy to help gender-confused kids, including gay and proto-gay kids, to feel comfortable with their bodies. Instead, they want “gender-affirming” medical intervention as the only allowed treatment for distress experienced by minors who don’t conform to traditional gender stereotypes (i.e., “masculine” girls and “effeminate” boys). That’s why growing numbers of LGB people oppose “conversion therapy” bans by local and national governments.

And this:

I challenge every single person who believes minors should be enabled and even encouraged to transition to read this first person testimony to the end.

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via @IWF https://t.co/3276o4tg8J

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 29, 2026

The Wall Street Journal does with other legacy media won’t, by publishing an in-depth report on the growing numbers of gay men and lesbians speaking out against gender-identity ideology, including the transing of gender-nonconforming, same-sex attracted and proto-gay kids.

It’s a hopeful sign, to be sure. And yet, depressingly, LGBTQ+ advocacy groups and media remain bastions of “queer theory” gender insanity. Even online forums such as Facebook groups, including those purporting to be for gay men, are full of heretic hunters who loudly denounce in the most vile terms anyone who dares express an opinion that deviates from the approved LGBTQ+ transgender orthodoxy.

And this:

Meanwhile, could the “queer” left possibly become more demented? Apparently, yes:

It seems doubtful, but it’s what the activist base and “the groups” are demanding.

But more people, including gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, are seeing it differently.

https://lgbausa.substack.com/p/what-people-really-mean-when-they

More gays and lesbians are standing up and speaking out against the pernicious gender ideology embraced by leading LGBTQ+ organizations that support child medicalization (drugs and then surgery) for gender-confused kids. As the evidence shows (but ideologues simply deny), most minors with gender confusion are gay and grow out of their dysphoria after puberty. Some recent posts that delve into the struggle to protect gay kids, below.

And yet LGBTQ+ queer activist groups and the leftwing of the Democratic party remain all-in on transing away the gay.