Log Cabin Republicans, a leading organization for gay conservatives, will no longer advocate for transgender people, a significant break within the LGBTQ movement as the GOP makes opposition to trans rights a political and policy priority.
The influential group added support for transgender issues to its platform more than a decade ago amid growing cultural acceptance. But Log Cabin Republicans President Ross Hemminger told CNN that in recent years his members have grown increasingly uncomfortable with the focuses of the trans community, including gender-affirming care for minors and the participation of trans girls and women in sports.
As long as people keep ignoring that most people, including those on the left, don’t agree with girls and women losing these protections in sports, trans rights is going to struggle. And before people come in with “but there are statistically no instances of this,” That isn’t true, and even if it was it still would be opening an unfair precedent.