The American Spectator
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Log Cabin Republicans is America ’s major organization for gay members of the GOP .
Bob Greene says the organization has gone along with the universal practice of saying “LGBT” instead of gay” or “gay men and lesbian” He says the term is now routinely applied to historical events that had nothing to do with transgender people.
Greene: The major gay-rights organizations have been more devoted to promoting transgender ideology than standing up for gay and lesbian Americans .
Gay activists used to stand fiercely against “conversion” therapy, which professed to “cure” people of homosexuality.
But “gender-affirming treatments” — puberty blockers, testosterone, estrogen , and sex-change surgery — are, for countless young people, an even more horrific form of conversion therapy than was practiced by antigay preachers of yesteryear.
Transsexuals were left untouched. For several years , our position was rock-solid. Homosexuality had ceased being an issue.
Bruce Bawer : LCR should stop using the term LGBT and return to identifying itself as an organization for gay men and lesbians.
He says transgender people should not be associated with therapists’ who take action (sometimes to the point of irreversible surgery) upon, an immature child’s statement that or she was born in the wrong body.
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