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It’s as if there is no longer a movement for gay and lesbian people. It’s all about critical gender theory and transgenderism, which is often directly at odds with the rights of women and homosexual people, and, especially, gay youth.

A biological male, fully equipped, who enjoys presenting as a woman while pursuing penetrative sex with women, is celebrated for being a lesbian.

This is where we are. The abolition of homosexuality as a core left tenet. https://t.co/UWeKB5T64D

— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) January 24, 2022

A rare bit of sanity on trans issues.

Here’s Corinna Cohn, a biological male who identifies as transsexual, testifying today in SUPPORT of a bill banning biological males from women’s sports. Cohn testifies that “it is unfair to expect girls to cede their hard-won rights.” pic.twitter.com/uOaRIznQHQ

— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) January 24, 2022

Using the state to persecute traditional religious believers for their views on marriage and sex, in a case from Finland — but the idea that writing in favor of these beliefs should be considered a hate crime is cropping up in progressives circles elsewhere, including in the U.S. and U.K.