Gender issues? What are we talking about here? Brooksie has gayness issues? I never heard that about him. He just keeps saying stuff about pants legs and creases and manly hotness, but I've never heard anyone out David Brooks. The way Frank Rich did David Brock, for example, in the pages of The New York Times back when Brock was writing for American Spectator and working on a book about Hildebeast.
Apologies to Brooks. I conflated his name with David Brock. Know nothing about David Brooks, and withdraw my comment. (Except from what you wrote, maybe it was a good guess.)