Gay journalist says LGBTQ movement has gone from civil rights success to 'madness'

Gay writer Andrew Sullivan said Thursday that the LGBTQ question is losing crushed successful America due to the fact that it has go "radicalized."

In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled astatine however the cheery rights question traded a bequest of civilian rights successes for extremist ideas that are turning disconnected modern-day Americans, similar trying to rewrite the rules of biology and advocating for kid transgender attraction — each the portion demonizing Americans who aren’t connected committee with those ideas.

"Far from celebrating victory, defending the gains, staying vigilant, but winding down arsenic a question that had achieved its halfway objectives — including the extremity of H.I.V. successful the United States arsenic an unstoppable plague — gay and lesbian rights groups did the opposite. Swayed by the broader wide displacement to the ‘social justice’ left, they radicalized," helium wrote.

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Gay rights advocator Andrew Sullivan railed against the excesses of the modern LGBTQ question successful a caller New York Times essay. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Sullivan elaborate however the cheery rights question changed for the worse aft winning astir of the victories for gay, lesbian and transgender civilian rights successful the past fewer decades. It became "a caller and extremist sex revolution" that helium said focused "on ending what activists saw arsenic the oppression of the enactment binary, which immoderate captious sex and queer theorists associated with ‘White supremacy,’" dissolving the "natural distinctions betwixt men and women successful society," and replacing "biological enactment with ‘gender identity’ successful the instrumentality and culture."

He besides said modern LGBTQ activists redefined homosexuality "not arsenic a neutral information of the quality information but arsenic a liberating ideological ‘queerness’ meant to subvert and ‘queer’ language, civilization and nine successful myriad antithetic ways."

Sullivan added that due to the fact that of this shift, the words "gay and lesbian" successful LGBT "all but disappeared" arsenic it became "L.G.B.T.Q., past L.G.B.T.Q.+, and much letters and characters kept being added: L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ oregon 2S.L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ … The positive motion referred to a seemingly infinite fig of caller niche identities, and, by immoderate counts, much than 70 caller ‘genders.’"

Sullivan continued, saying that the connection "’Queer’ was a mode of summing up the caller regime, a wide motion that this truly was a antithetic question than the gay, lesbian and transgender civilian rights question of the past."

The author, though helium said helium welcomed immoderate of the changes brought by this modern movement, said helium "simply didn’t bargain it."

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Members and supporters of the LGBTQ assemblage be the "Say Gay Anyway" rally successful Miami Beach, Florida, successful 2022. ( (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images))

"I didn’t and don’t judge that being a antheral oregon a pistillate has thing to bash with biology. My intersexual predisposition is based connected a biologic favoritism betwixt men and women: I’m attracted to the erstwhile and not to the latter. And present I was expected to judge the quality didn’t exist?"

He called this improvement "madness," writing, "But abolishing the enactment binary for the full society? That’s a full different happening entirely. And madness, I believe. What if I redefined what it is to beryllium heterosexual and imposed it connected consecutive people?"

"They demanded the full nine alteration successful a cardinal mode truthful that the enactment binary nary longer counted," helium said, noting however dissent with this rule was "equated with bigotry."

The different large occupation with this caller mentation of the cheery rights movement, helium said, was the preoccupation with children’s intersexual orientations.

Sullivan continued, "But this illiberalism made a fateful, strategical mistake. In the cheery rights movement, determination had ever been an unspoken aureate rule: Leave children retired of it. We knew precise good that immoderate overreach determination could provoke the astir past humor libel against us: that we groom and maltreatment kids… So what did the sex revolutionaries spell and do? They focused astir wholly connected children and minors."

He elaborate however sex ideology proponents taught kids that "being a lad oregon a miss was thing they could take and alteration astatine will," allowed biologic males to vie successful pistillate sports, and, successful immoderate places, allowed kids to socially modulation astatine schoolhouse "without their parents’ cognition oregon permission."

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The writer past mentioned the "most extremist of all: gender-affirming attraction for minors, which tin pb to irreversible enactment changes for children."

After mentioning the advent of these extremist positions, Sullivan pointed to existent polling showing people’s enactment for the LGBTQ question eroding. Citing a Gallup poll, helium said, "In 2021, for example, 62 percent of Americans said that transgender athletes should beryllium capable to play lone connected teams that matched their sex astatine birth; by 2023, that fig had risen to 69 percent."

"When radical who cognize a trans idiosyncratic personally were polled, lone 40 percent successful 2021 supported their competing successful teams that matched their sex identity; by 2023, that dropped to 30 percent," helium said, mentioning different acceptable of Gallup polls. "On the aesculapian question, 46 percent of Americans supported banning aesculapian attraction related to sex transitions for minors successful 2022. Today, arsenic radical person learned more, 56 percent do," helium said, citing Pew Research data.

Sullivan went connected to enactment that due to the fact that of this radicalism, the footholds that the cheery rights question carved retired among the governmental halfway and close "are being lost."

"Gallup showed Republican enactment for cheery matrimony dropping from 55 to 46 percent betwixt 2022 and 2025," helium wrote. 

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Sullivan concluded his portion by urging chap liberals to support the successes of the cheery rights question and not sacrifice them for extremist ideology. 

"Let’s not propulsion it away," helium said.