Not the Movement We Supported and Fought For –

The Log Cabin Republicans group was established in the late ’70s to fight discrimination and intolerance against gays, lesbians, and biinappropriates. Melania Trump held a big fundraiser with LCR at Mar-a-Lago in 2024 for her husband, then-candidate and now president Donald Trump. 

Their mission was clear, according to President Ross Hemminger, who wrote a Thursday op-ed in our sister publication Townhall:

Fifty years in the past next yr, Log Cabin Republicans was based on a simple conviction: that homosexual Americans who imagine in restricted authorities, particular person liberty, and equality deserve equal safety under the law and a voice inside the Republican Party. From the start, Log Cabin Republicans grounded its advocacy in constitutional rules — equal safety, restricted authorities, and particular person freedom.

But in 2015, they added the “T” — transgender — and now they’re questioning that trans agenda. In fact, they’re stepping back from their affiliation with the T totally and reverting to strictly working on behalf of “LGB”:

LCR President: “…after significant discussion with our membership, our Board of Directors voted to refine Log Cabin Republicans’ national advocacy focus to concentrate specifically on issues of inappropriate orientation and conservative values — in other words, we are an LGB advocacy…

— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) August 20, 2026

LCR President: “…after important dialogue with our membership, our Board of Directors voted to refine Log Cabin Republicans’ national advocacy focus to focus particularly on points of inappropriate orientation and conservative values — in other phrases, we’re an LGB advocacy group, as our founders envisioned and as our ethical heart calls us to be.”

Why would they do that? As Hemminger explains, it’s about the bizarre focus the motion has on kids and their selling the unfair and unsafe observe of permitting males to compete against females in athletics:

The transgender motion has ceased focusing on adults at all — almost all of their efforts and those of their aligned particular curiosity teams focus on minors. They push faculties to train radical gender ideology; they need organic males in girls’s sports activities regardless of the penalties; maybe most offensively, they assist gender reassignment therapies for minors, often without the information or consent of the dad and mom, realizing full nicely these therapies are largely irreversible.

I’m not significantly stunned at this transfer: I went to hear a outstanding politician communicate at an event that Log Cabin sponsored a few years in the past, and an acquaintance told me confidentially that he and a quantity of his buddies had been growing more and more involved about the direction of the “T” motion. He felt that he didn’t signal up for this. He said he didn’t need to be painted with a crucial brush because males in girls’s sports activities and surgical procedures for minors had been never issues that he advocated for.

He’s not alone:

TEXAS SENATE RACE: With main Democrats like James Talarico (CIS) embracing the transition of minors into the trans neighborhood, the Log Cabin Republicans have seen the gentle and dumped the T from LGB. pic.twitter.com/rVvzJxplN8

— @amuse (@amuse) August 22, 2026

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Hemminger continued, echoing some of those same themes:

However, the new period of gender identification politics will not be the motion we supported and fought for. Gay males and girls are dropping public assist across the nation, and assist for homosexual marriage and other once-widely accepted rights is eroding. Why? Because many voters today weren’t alive or cognizant of the politics of homosexual marriage winding its method through the courts and gaining ground in public opinion. Their view of the homosexual neighborhood is based on today’s radical transgender activists with their pointless and discomfiting focus on America’s youth.

Most people aren’t crammed with hate, nor do they wake up hoping to discriminate against or assault people who are different than them. America is a remarkably tolerant nation, and while actually many people should not snug with transgenderism, the majority was at least prepared to hear.

But they needed more than that, a lot, a lot more ­— and people began to get sick of it:

“The Pride flag has gone far beyond the inspiring symbol its designers originally intended … the far Left has co-opted the flag as a symbol for their own radical political and cultural agendas that divide and exclude more than unite and inspire.” https://t.co/x9yKGuvLVp

— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) July 3, 2024

The motion merely took it too far (and continues to). Changing the genders of youngsters, often without the dad and mom’ information and accompanied by life-changing surgical procedures and medicine? That’s a bridge too far for most people, and it’s clearly morally mistaken to any pondering human.

Watching males steal sports activities trophies from females and injure them, meanwhile? Nossir. This was particularly galling after the battle so many girls fought to convey gender equality to athletics. Instead of defending girls and ladies with Title IX, former President Joe Gender-Obsessed Biden used the 1972 landmark act to discriminate against them and push the ridiculous thought that boys beating up on ladies is “fair” and “moral.”

The Log Cabin Republicans have evidently seen enough.

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