Log Cabin Republicans vote to scrap transgender issues: We are an LGB organization

The Log Cabin Republicans announced Friday that they will no longer advocate for transgender issues – declaring itself to be an “LGB” organization.The influential group – the nation’s largest GOP organization dedicated to representing lesbian, gay and bisexual conservatives and allies – voted to scrap the “T,” after more than a decade of support for transgender issues.They did so over the trans rights movement’s “focus on minors,” the head of the Log Cabin Republicans explained. “At the time, we did not believe that we would find ourselves where we are today,” Ross Hemminger, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, wrote in an op-ed for Townhall, announcing the mission shift. “The transgender movement has ceased focusing on adults at all — nearly all of their efforts and those of their aligned special interest groups focus on minors,” Hemminger said of what’s taken place since the 2015 decision to champion transgender issues.

“They push schools to teach radical gender ideology; they want biological men in women’s sports regardless of the consequences; perhaps most offensively, they support gender reassignment treatments for minors, often without the knowledge or consent of the parents, knowing full well these treatments are mostly irreversible.” Hemminger lamented that this “new era of gender identity politics is not the movement we supported and fought for,” and he blamed it for waning public interest in backing gay and lesbian issues. “Their view of the gay community is based on today’s radical transgender activists with their unnecessary and discomfiting focus on America’s youth,” he said. To address the issue, the Log Cabin Republicans’ board of directors has voted to “concentrate specifically on issues of sexual orientation and conservative values — in other words, we are an LGB advocacy organization.” Specifically, the Log Cabin Republicans intend to focus on issues concerning marriage, adoptio...