James Kirchick explains what’s gone wrong with the movement that was formed to advance equal rights and social acceptance for gays and lesbians. The advocacy of medical intervention for gender-nonconforming kids who otherwise would likely grow up to be gay is just the tip of the iceberg.
What Contributions to ‘Big LGBTQ+’ Are Paying For
In further evidence of how LGBTQ+ activists and ideologues are undermining the hard-fought victories that gay men and lesbians won, consider this. Charles M. Blow, a social justice columnist for the New York Times, argues that queerness is chosen and we should stop saying people are born with an innate sexuality. Here, he draws heavily on academic queer theory and gender studies academics.
Blow writes:
“Born this way,” as a slogan, was a tremendous cultural and political success. The problem is that it isn’t supported by science. The emerging scientific consensus is that sexual orientation isn’t purely genetic. A person’s genetic makeup and exposure to prenatal hormones may provide a propensity to queerness, but they aren’t determinative. …
But the time may have come to retire the phrase. It is not only unsupportable by science but also does not capture the full reality of queer experience and is unjust to some members of the queer community itself.
Is it any wonder that there is a growing backlash against “LGBTQ+” when queer ideologues are undermining the arguments that won equality for LGB people while, at the same time, they’re pushing gender-nonconforming kids onto the trans train?
Andrew Doyle on what the current version of LGBT+ activism has done to what was once the movement for gay and lesbian equality.
Not only is big LGBT+ activism wrong-headed and counter-productive, but thoroughly corrupt as well.
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California Puts Gay Kids at Risk
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‘Intersectional Insanity’
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Gender Ideology Puts Gay Kids at Risk
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The Backlash
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David Boaz Remembered
David Boaz, a founding member of the original Independent Gay Forum, passed away recently. Here’s a look at a life well-lived but far too short.
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Gay Kids Still at Risk
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Is the Tide Turning?
But so much bad reporting still needs to be confronted.