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In Sunday's New York Times, Andrea Long Chu writes a heartfelt and heartbreaking op-ed on life with gender dysphoria. Titled "My New Vagina Won't Make Me Happy," the op-ed reveals painful truths about many transgender lives and inadvertently communicates almost the exact opposite of its intended argument.
Nancy Pelosi made headlines stating that if Democrats reclaim the House, a top agenda item will be to pass laws banning disagreement on LGBT issues.
A 7-2 win at the Supreme Court is a big deal. But some advocates of religious freedom minimized the importance of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, saying it was a narrow ruling that applies only to the manifest hostility to religion the commission showed in adjudicating Jack Phillips's case. Religious-liberty opponents have claimed the decision is an open door to invidious discrimination, including racism. Both views are wrong.
Monday's 7-2 Supreme Court decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission is a big win for the religious liberty of all Americans. The Court made it clear that hostility toward religion has no place in America, least of all in our government.
Public debates about sensitive issues of culture, identity, and sexuality often get tangled up in terms and concepts. In particular, we confuse "rights" and "needs" in ways that in turn confuse our understanding of the appropriate role of government in these arenas. Untangling this knot is a first step toward fruitful debate of these sensitive matters.
Sex "reassignment" doesn't work. It's impossible to "reassign" someone's sex physically, and attempting to do so doesn't produce good outcomes psychosocially.
Anti-trans bigotry exists. It's wrong, and we should all condemn it.
Who knew that removing the federal government from debates over school bathroom policies would be considered an assault on LGBT rights?
Parents in Ohio lost custody of their 17-year-old daughter Friday because a judge ruled that she should be allowed to receive therapy, including testosterone therapy, to identify as a boy.
People say that we live in a postmodern age that has rejected metaphysics. That's not quite true.
Properly understanding sex, gender, gender identity, and gender dysphoria will continue to be pressing concerns in 2018.
Despite activists' best efforts to put up a unified front, Harry cannot become Sally.
On Dec. 5, the Supreme Court heard the case of Jack Phillips, the Christian baker who can't in good conscience design and create wedding cakes that celebrate same-sex marriages. The Justices now will decide whether states, consistent with the First Amendment, can force citizens to express support for same-sex marriage through their artistic products. But this case needn't have ended up at the Court. And future cases like it can be avoided.
Two years to the day after the Supreme Court redefined marriage in Obergefell, the Court announced that it would hear a case about the extent to which private parties may be forced to embrace this new vision of marriage. The case involves Jack Phillips, a Colorado baker who declined to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex-wedding reception.
Any personnel policy must prioritize military readiness and mission-critical purposes first.
President Trump's executive order on free speech and religious liberty, while welcome, is rather weak. It is woefully inadequate in meeting the challenges of our time.
Yesterday was a good day for religious freedom at the Supreme Court.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously on Thursday that a Mississippi law that protects religious liberty and the rights of conscience in light of the redefinition of marriage may go into effect.
Increasingly, gender therapists and physicians argue that children as young as nine should be given puberty-blocking drugs if they experience gender dysphoria.
