SCOOP: California is pressuring public utilities to award $633 million in special contracts to "LGBT-owned" firms. To qualify, residents must go through the state's official gay-certification program—and face up to a year in jail if they're not gay enough.https://t.co/rOcnPqYJrl

— Christopher F. Rufo (@christopherrufo) June 16, 2026

I can’t believe this is real…

California has a gay certification checklist to ensure taxpayer funded contracts only for lgbtq people, are being awarded to people who are gay enough

Extremely bizarre, not to mention highly illegal.

Source: @CityJournal pic.twitter.com/CCME6cjHiA

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 16, 2026

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Making ball players wear pro-LGBTQ+ hats and uniform shirts, and threatening retaliation against those who resist, is a terrible practice. It’s as if LGBTQ+ activists and their “allies” are trying to provoke a backlash against the great achievement of the gay rights movement — equal treatment under the law.

TRENDING: San Francisco Giants pitcher Sam Hentges declined to wear the team’s Pride Night cap on Friday night, infuriating some members of the fanbase.

“It was equal parts bigoted and embarrassing, and blame deserves to shine throughout the organization,” Giants analyst Brady… pic.twitter.com/iZzgfppfSH

— Off The Press (@OffThePress1) June 13, 2026

This is nuts. Forced to wear "Pride Month" rainbows on their baseball caps, 3 Christians on the SF Giants added, "Gen 9:12-16" — referring to God's covenant with man symbolized with a rainbow.

Gay rights activist: "They defaced the Pride rainbow by telling the LGBTQ community…

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 16, 2026

JUST IN: The Attorney General of Florida is now launching an investigation into the MLB after they WARNED 3 Giants pitchers simply because they wore BIBLE VERSES on their "Pride Night" caps

GOOD!

JD VANCE: "Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore."

AG UTHMEIER: "Do you… pic.twitter.com/WhVLoT9Pqf

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 16, 2026

NEW: Professional baseball team 'York Revolution' turns on their players after they were forced to forfeit after the players refused to wear LGBT jerseys for 'Pride Night.'

The Pennsylvania team threw their players under the bus for refusing to put on the gay uniforms.

"To be… pic.twitter.com/xStfEYmx88

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 18, 2026

And this

Ryan Self also posted:

It’s notable who is the target audience for common forms of LGBTQ activism (“queer” people in some of the most LGBTQ-friendly, progressive cities in the world) and who isn’t (gay kids in deeply conservative and religious areas where hostile attitudes and barriers to opportunities are more common). “How will this action impact gay kids in rural Alabama or ruby red Arkansas?” is a question I wish activists asked themselves. Instead, the concern seems to be, “Do queer baseball fans in San Francisco feel seen?”

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Gay rights protected a stigmatized minority without disrupting everyone else’s life. Trans rights aim to make everyone reject biology, indulge delusion, accept child sexualization, and treat sex as a spectrum requiring pronouns. Gay rights is losing appeal because its champions… https://t.co/5747XT924S

— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) June 4, 2026

Andrew Sullivan on how the radical queer left is undermining support for legal same-sex marriage:

"Marriage equality was a huge blow to the queer left. They hated the idea that gay men and women could just be normies, primarily interested in getting on with their lives,… pic.twitter.com/sYUbqmidgU

— Nancy Pearcey (@NancyRPearcey) June 5, 2026

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And alternatively:

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And this:

I challenge every single person who believes minors should be enabled and even encouraged to transition to read this first person testimony to the end.

1/3

via @IWF https://t.co/3276o4tg8J

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 29, 2026

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From the Down Under, “Battle Lines Drawn as Gay, Trans Camps Square Off.”

But trans vs. gay may be the future generally. Via LGB Alliance Australia:

“Let’s be clear. ‘LGBTQIA+ no longer represents us. It now encompasses institutions that oppose the rights of lesbians, gay man and bisexual people, erasing our language, distorting our reality and mischaracterizing our rights as hate.”

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And on and on …

There have been many scandals through the history of modern medicine. But none even come close to "gender-affirming care."

Think about it: A political movement just conjured into existence a type of young person that defies every single thing known about child and adolescent… pic.twitter.com/DOEGhPXmYd

— Mia Hughes (@_CryMiaRiver) April 25, 2026

True, not all trans kids detransition (so far), but that doesn’t justify the continuing unfairness of allowing bio males who identify as female to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. Or, as below, pretending that a female who competes on the women’s team is a male!:

Rorschach test.

For believers in “gender identity,” this is the story of a unique type of man who bravely smashes barriers in an oppressive society.

For non-believers, it’s a story about a woman who makes it into a women’s soccer team. pic.twitter.com/1JN3nrCJh9

— Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) May 6, 2026

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A new Finnish report on the aftermath of medical transitioning of minors and young adults is making waves. Here, from Any Ngo:

A new academic study published in Acta Paediatrica followed over 2,000 trans teens and young people who received “gender-affirming” care.
After treatment, mental health problems became more common, not less, and these trans people remained several times more likely to need psychiatric care than their non-trans peers. Psychiatric morbidity surged especially among those who transitioned medically through surgeries and/or cross-sex hormones.
The study’s findings are part of a growing body of research showing no improvements or even worse outcomes for people who transition, contradicting the claims from the ACLU, GLAAD, and leftist trans activists.

A new academic study published in Acta Paediatrica followed over 2,000 trans teens and young people who received "gender-affirming" care.

After treatment, mental health problems became more common, not less, and these trans people remained several times more likely to need…

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) April 7, 2026

Rich Guggenheim points out that:

Finland has some of the best national health records in the world. Every specialist psychiatric visit, diagnosis, medication purchase, and procedure is logged. There is no loss to follow up. Researchers followed these young people for an average of 5.5 years after their first clinic visit (up to 25 years for the earliest cases).

Guggenheim adds:

Major LGBTIQA+ organizations have abandoned their original mission. Groups like GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign, and GLSEN once fought for basic rights for gays and lesbians: decriminalization, marriage equality, and protection from discrimination. Today they have shifted almost entirely to pragmatic outreach that targets children and pushes the radical trans queer agenda.

Plus:

The entire basis for medically "transitioning" minors was that this was the only way to relieve their "distress," said to be "gender dysphoria." If we didn't give them these hormones and surgeries they would suffer from mental health struggles for life and probably kill… https://t.co/xEFEdCQf3k

— Meghan Murphy (@MeghanEMurphy) April 8, 2026

And what the truth is up against:

And this:

Here’s my latest at Substack: May the Truth About Trans Treatments for Kids Set Them Free:

Call it “medical gender reassignment,” “sex-trait-altering procedures,” or “transgender medical interventions.” Just don’t call it “gender-affirming care.”

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Other views:

I agree as far as sexuality and particularly any form of physical therapy or electro-shock or anything like that.

But they literally defined a therapist correctly telling a confused child what sex they are as "conversion therapy."

That's obviously insane, and, as far as talk… https://t.co/nRHSzSBRNu

— Brad Polumbo (@brad_polumbo) April 1, 2026

As I’ve said, if Trump wants to allow therapists to help kids with gender confusion realize they can be a gender-nonconforming boy or girl, then “progressives” want to outlaw such counseling and only allow puberty blockers and breast/genital surgery as state-permitted treatment options.

“The Supreme Court did not ‘bring back gay conversion therapy.’ Coercive conversion therapy is still widely considered harmful and is not what this ruling was about.

The case was about whether the government can restrict what licensed therapists are allowed to say in counseling… pic.twitter.com/1DYFez37oe

— Peter (@monkieboy99) April 1, 2026

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University of California, Riverside associate professor Brandon Robinson argued that a sexual identity label like “gay” or “lesbian” “harms trans people” and called for abolishing sexual identities altogether. …
Robinson, who uses they/them pronouns, explained the importance of moving beyond “gender essentialism” from sexual identities, which the professor claims can be built around gender “stereotypes.”
“If being ‘gay’ means being a man attracted to men, it assumes ‘man’ is a stable, inherent category, when history shows the definition of manhood is constantly changing,” Robinson said. “Gender essentialism also harms trans people, who often complicate those binary boundaries.”
Robinson included traditional labels like “gay” or “lesbian” as ones to abolish, wanting readers to question “why we privilege gender and genitals above all other attributes” in our desires.

For those who discount conservative-leaning news sources, here’s the UC Riverside press release.

Similarly:

ALERT: Top-ranking ecology journal Ecology Letters has published a "Viewpoint" paper titled "There is No Consensus on Biological Sex."

The authors call the "sex binary" a "simplistic and harmful ideolog[y]."

Yet they then claim that no view of sex (gamete-based, multivariate,… pic.twitter.com/3V7ksTgA9h

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) March 10, 2026

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