There is a document with the seal of the United States government on it, and it teaches that a category of children does not exist. It is called “Wolves in White Coats.” The Department of Health and Human Services released…
HHS promotes transgender study by Focus on the Family affiliate
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently issued a report created by a Focus on the Family affiliate that claims transgender medical procedures have no basis in fact and offer no benefits but are instead part of a…
Let’s define our terms on ‘sex’ and ‘gender’
On Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14168, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” which directed government agencies to replace the term “gender” with “sex” in all federal documents…
In Texas, this math doesn’t add up to gospel
For most of my life I knew a truth about myself that I could not say out loud. I carried a badge in a Texas town. I raised children. I have been married to the same person for 46 years….
Log Cabin Republicans spill the T
Log Cabin Republicans are removing the T from their advocacy for gay and lesbian and bisexual citizens. Ross Hemminger, president of Log Cabin Republicans, announced the change in an Aug. 20 column in Town Hall, a far-right online journal. The…
I shook hands with a transgender woman, and I’m fine
I shook hands with a transgender woman. I did not get cooties. I did not fear she would take over the plane. I did not have Satan ease into my being. Every July since 2013, I travel to San Diego…
When silence breeds fear
Every one of us has stood in a room where the truth needed saying and said nothing. We told ourselves it was not our place. We told ourselves someone else would speak. We studied our own shoes while another person…
How one manufactured story becomes a belief about millions
On June 23, the president of the United States stood in a Mack Trucks plant in Macungie, Pa., to give a speech about American manufacturing. Somewhere in the middle of this speech, he purposely manufactured a person. It went like…
Texas needs a ‘detransition clinic’ like I need a hairbrush
Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott have sold the state of Texas a pack of lies about transgender people, and lives are in danger as a result. Paxton, our controversial attorney general who is running for the U.S. Senate, and Abbott,…
Trans protections targeted after Supreme Court ruling
Fresh from a Supreme Court victory affirming laws that restrict transgender sports participation in 27 mostly red states, Alliance Defending Freedom has a warning for 23 blue states that protect trans rights: “You’re next.” ADF helped write trans sports bills…
Why transgender people threaten some and what that says about us all
Living in Texas as a transgender woman sometimes feels like walking through your own neighborhood with three heads. People stare. People whisper. People make decisions about who and what you are before you have said a single word — decisions…
SBC says it’s not possible to be gay or transgender and Christian
It is not possible to be a “gay Christian” or a “transgender Christian,” the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission says. In a new social media reel posted by the ERLC, that question is answered by RaShan Frost,…