In case you haven’t already figured out what a despicable person Stephen Miller is, hear this: The adviser to President Donald Trump posted on X an attack on Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico that says, “The Democrats made history in…
Remembering Juniper Blessing
On May 10, a 19-year-old student at the University of Washington died in the laundry room of an off-campus apartment complex, Nordheim Court. This student did not die from natural causes, from drug use or cancer. Juniper Blessing died after…
TPUSA cancels anti-trans event after UW trans student’s murder
Turning Point USA postponed an anti-transgender event at the University of Washington amid backlash over the recent murder of a transgender student near campus. Originally planned for May 13, the “Pick Up the Mic” session was to feature Chloe Cole,…
Colorado high court challenges RFK Jr on transgender care
The Colorado Supreme Court has issued a ruling siding with transgender patients who sued a hospital that stopped providing gender-affirming care due to fear of retaliation by the Trump administration. The May 18 opinion reversed a trial court’s denial of…
A trans man and his Baptist pastor reflect on a decade of friendship
Ten years ago today, BNG published an article by Mark that opened the door to a friendship between us that spans a decade of tremendous change in American culture and politics. On May 13, 2016, BNG published Mark’s opinion piece…
Trump counterterrorism strategy names ‘transgender ideologies’ as major threat
The Trump administration has warned that “radically pro-transgender” advocacy groups constitute a major terror threat as the Trump administration works to roll back actions of the Biden administration that it maintains “weaponized” the intelligence community.
Trump administration calls transgender people national security threat
The Trump administration has labeled transgender people a national security threat on par with drug cartels and Islamic militant groups. A new “counterterrorism strategy” published by the White House states: “Our national (counter terrorism) activities will also prioritize the rapid…
I didn’t leave the church
In my last column for Baptist News Global, I wrote a sentence I want to come back to: “I am a trans man who grew up in the church and loved it until it threw me away.” Some readers may…
What should stand in the way of transgender inclusion?
Christians are the least likely group of people to be accepting of transgender individuals. The most recent Pew Research Religious Landscape Study asked participants how they viewed greater social acceptance of people who are transgender. Of those who broadly identified…
The GOP has a transgender fixation, and Democrats aren’t helping
While the man in charge of the most powerful military in world history threatened to blow an entire civilization into oblivion, “never to be brought back again,” many of us wondered how his Christian followers would respond. Back in 2016,…
What they’ve taught me
I was scrolling Facebook when I saw the post. Someone I had mentored. Someone who had reached out, who had sat in the specific loneliness of being queer and trans and faith-formed and told by that faith they were the…
Support for LGBTQ rights steady for most Americans
For more than a decade, PRRI has been tracking American attitudes about nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ individuals, religiously based service refusals, and same-sex marriage. In our latest report, we find that while solid majorities of Americans continue to support nondiscrimination protections and…