Headline: Colorado’s top court will hear case against Christian baker who refused to make a gender transition-themed cake.
Headline: Swiss LGBTQ groups praise jail sentence for commentator who called journalist a ‘fat lesbian’.
Freedom for nice speech is no freedom of speech at all https://t.co/pCE4g3I0I4
— David Boaz (@David_Boaz) October 4, 2023
My name is Ty and I’m very grateful that I grew up before it became commonplace for parents to transition their effeminate boys. Many of us could have had our lives ruined by forces beyond our control or understanding.
— Ty’s Tough Talk🇺🇸🏳️🌈 (@toughtalkty) October 3, 2023
I’ve been seeing this topic coming up more again and I… pic.twitter.com/qbEk2R9Ci5
Planned Parenthood joins the list of progressive organizations putting gender-nonconforming gay kids at risk.
Planned Parenthood is giving cross-sex hormones to teenagers—including those with special needs—after just a 30 minute consult.
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) October 4, 2023
Even the liberal pioneers of gender medicine are alarmed, saying PP has eroded vital guardrails on an irreversible treatment.🧵https://t.co/9tdmylBuoP
And worth repeating:
No, you definitely will, once your donors realize that many of these kids are gay, and most are troubled teens who need proper mental health support.
— Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) September 29, 2023
The real question is what accountability will look like for you. https://t.co/91Px0tZWDQ
BREAKING: Luka Hein (@onedonebun) emerges as the fifth U.S. detransitioner to pursue legal action against the medical professionals that facilitated her transition as a minor — which included a double mastectomy at 16 after just two appointments.https://t.co/dBtteA8LuW
— Christina Buttons (@buttonslives) September 14, 2023
Worth repeating: The religious right wanted to “pray away the gay.” Now, the progressive left wants to “trans away the gay,” and gay man and lesbians who defend gender nonconforming gay kids from the new medical-conversion therapy are labeled “transphobes” and “TERFS”—or worse.
It is so weird to write online that I don’t think gender-nonconforming kids, who will likely grow up to be gay, should have their natural development compromised by experimental drugs, only to be called a Nazi.
— Ben Appel (@benappel) September 9, 2023
Added:
Very true: “‘Trans conversion therapy’ … is essentially an endorsement of gay conversion therapy.”
The discourse around “conversion therapy” is mired in confusion, and it is largely the government’s fault.
— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) September 20, 2023
“Gay conversion therapy” is the attempt to change an individual’s sexual orientation, often by coercive or abusive means.
“Trans conversion therapy” is a phrase used to…
No, you definitely will, once your donors realize that many of these kids are gay, and most are troubled teens who need proper mental health support.
— Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) September 29, 2023
The real question is what accountability will look like for you. https://t.co/91Px0tZWDQ
Countering the Orwellian misuse of language by LGBTQ+ progressives is also vital:
The religious right wanted to “pray away the gay.” Now, the progressive left wants to “trans away the gay,” and gay man and lesbians who defend gender nonconforming gay kids from the new medical-conversion therapy are labeled “transphobes” and “TERFS”—or worse.
It is so weird to write online that I don’t think gender-nonconforming kids, who will likely grow up to be gay, should have their natural development compromised by experimental drugs, only to be called a Nazi.
— Ben Appel (@benappel) September 9, 2023
When the struggle for gay rights was underway, protesters weren’t holding up signs telling their detractors to commit suicide.
— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) September 10, 2023
The violent rhetoric of gender ideologues is just one of the reasons why their campaigns fail to persuade the general public.pic.twitter.com/7f1GNkqfeP
Sadly, much of this involves attempts to “trans away the gay” among gender-nonconforming kids. Tragic.
And worth repeating:
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 24, 2023
Who is more likely to protect the wellbeing of gender nonconforming kids, or kids that progressive public school teachers and diversity educrats, in their great wisdom, decide are gender nonconforming and therefore transgender, and therefore should be encouraged to self-identify as their affirming gender identity (as perceived by public school teachers and educrats)?
Sure, some gender nonconforming kids, and many gay kids, have unsupportive parents, or sometimes worse. But giving the state the power, through public school teachers and educrats driven by hard-edged progressive gender ideology, to “help” confused kids to adopt new, “affirming” names and pronouns, and to change into “affirming” clothes once at school and use the “affirming” restroom—putting them on a path toward sterilizing puberty blockers and surgeries—all without contacting or discussing these issues with the parents, crosses all kinds of lines. And, significantly, these policies threaten the otherwise healthy development of gender nonconforming gay kids.
The children have had their names and pronoun changed publicly — these facts are known to everyone in the school except for their own parents.
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 29, 2023
Such changes are psychosocial interventions that teachers are not competent to undertake. According to the first transgender president… https://t.co/5ASOys7zBT pic.twitter.com/sVQA0NcURt
Just incredible that left-wing politicians are making the case for government schools to facilitate a child's sexual transition—new names, pronouns, sexualities, and identities—while keeping the entire process a secret from parents. This is depraved and tyrannical. https://t.co/bvtt7gHTNA
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 30, 2023
defund teachers unions. pic.twitter.com/TZOJJbFw67
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) September 2, 2023
'Parents don't own their children.'
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) August 31, 2023
Leftwing progressivism has a fundamental belief that children are autonomous, miniature adults being subjugated by their parents.
They believe they must liberate them.
Once you get that, most of their child policies make sense.
When working on 2022 article about transgender athletes & elite sports, I called GLAAD. Their officials tried to tell me who I should NOT interview and that I should not "platform" tennis great and gay pioneer Martina Navratilova because her views ran counter to their line. https://t.co/xSWIRsbPXz
— Michael Powell (@powellAtlantic) August 24, 2023
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 24, 2023
The article in question was in fact deeply researched and painstakingly fair. https://t.co/xSWIRsbPXz
— Michael Powell (@powellAtlantic) August 24, 2023
And some good advice for children with gender dysphoria:
He continues:
Last month, a group of 18 medical experts from around the world published an open letter criticizing the U.S. Endocrine Society for its approach to youth gender transition, stating that while “the evidence for mental-health benefits of hormonal interventions for minors” is “of low or very low certainty … the risks are significant and include sterility, lifelong dependence on medication and the anguish of regret.” The troubling reality is that America’s ideologically captured medical and psychological associations find themselves increasingly isolated among their European peers when it comes to pediatric gender medicine, a challenging set of circumstances for American progressives, who are normally urging us to become more like Europe.
Best line from the review: “Either this is the story of Ellen, a young woman struggling to resist sex stereotypes and heteronormativity, or it’s the story of Elliot, a young man who embraced them.”
DEI—it’s to die for.
So true: