Transgender Politics

Conservatives "aren't shocked if some author, actor, or musician says something we find objectionable. It's our expectation that they will. But for liberals, there's a broad assumption that artists are going to be more or less on the same page as they are." - Washington Examiner 

"A new study appearing last month in the American Journal of Psychiatry concluded that 'gender-affirming' surgery is associated with reduced demand for subsequent mental health treatment.... even a cursory reading of the study itself tells a far less optimistic story" - Public Discourse

"Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Wednesday night that the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services are looking into a case involving a custody battle over a seven-year-old boy who is said to be transgender by his mother." - National Review

"U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor, an appointee of President George W. Bush, vacated a 2016 Obamacare mandate that critics feared could have forced faith-based doctors out of work if they refused to perform gender-transition procedures or abortions on patients referred to them." - Christian Post

"When Virginia public school teacher Peter Vlaming cited his Christian faith as the reason he declined to reference a transgender student with new pronouns, a school administrator replied that his 'personal religious beliefs end at the school door.'" - Christianity Today

"According to the court, Dr. Mackereth’s genuinely held beliefs as well as lack of beliefs are 'incompatible with human dignity and conflict with the fundamental rights of others, specifically here, transgender individuals.'” - CBMW

"Two months after losing in court, the city of Anchorage, Alaska, has decided it won’t try and force a Christian women’s shelter to take in biological men who identify as women." - Christian Headlines

"As children, they didn’t think to challenge the new adult rules, the new adult ideas of justice. Instead, they found a way around this difficulty that the grown-ups had introduced into their lives. It was a quiet plea to be left alone." - Mark Ward