Posted on 08/23/2026 8:11:33 AM PDT by Ennis85
The Log Cabin Republicans group was established in the late '70s to combat discrimination and intolerance against gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. 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 ago next year, Log Cabin Republicans was founded on a simple conviction: that gay Americans who believe in limited government, individual liberty, and equality deserve equal protection under the law and a voice inside the Republican Party. From the start, Log Cabin Republicans grounded its advocacy in constitutional principles — equal protection, limited government, and individual 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 association with the T entirely and reverting to strictly working on behalf of “LGB”:
https://x.com/LogCabinGOP/status/2090522271060287695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2090522271060287695%7Ctwgr%5Eec875206a1b0314a4a60be4b23125ac14e57c636%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fbobhoge%2F2026%2F08%2F23%2Ftop-gop-gay-advocacy-group-drops-the-t-in-lgbt-not-the-movement-we-supported-and-fought-for-n2205953
"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 sexual orientation and conservative values — in other words, we are an LGB advocacy organization, as our founders envisioned and as our moral center calls us to be."
Why would they do that? As Hemminger explains, it’s about the weird focus the movement has on children and their promoting the unfair and unsafe practice of allowing males to compete against females in athletics:
"The transgender movement has ceased focusing on adults at all — nearly all of their efforts and those of their aligned special interest groups focus on minors. They push schools to teach radical gender ideology; they want biological men in women’s sports regardless of the consequences; perhaps most offensively, they support gender reassignment treatments for minors, often without the knowledge or consent of the parents, knowing full well these treatments are mostly irreversible."
I’m not particularly surprised at this move: I went to hear a prominent politician speak at an event that Log Cabin sponsored a few years ago, and an acquaintance told me confidentially that he and a number of his friends were growing increasingly concerned about the direction of the “T” movement. He felt that he did not sign up for this. He said he did not want to be painted with a critical brush because men in women’s sports and surgeries for minors were never things that he advocated for.
He's not alone:
https://x.com/amuse/status/2091158991330025662?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2091158991330025662%7Ctwgr%5Eec875206a1b0314a4a60be4b23125ac14e57c636%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fbobhoge%2F2026%2F08%2F23%2Ftop-gop-gay-advocacy-group-drops-the-t-in-lgbt-not-the-movement-we-supported-and-fought-for-n2205953
Hemminger continued, echoing some of those same themes:
"However, the new era of gender identity politics is not the movement we supported and fought for. Gay men and women are losing public support across the country, and support for gay marriage and other once-widely accepted rights is eroding. Why? Because many voters today weren’t alive or cognizant of the politics of gay marriage winding its way through the courts and gaining ground in public opinion. Their view of the gay community is based on today’s radical transgender activists with their unnecessary and discomfiting focus on America’s youth."
Most people aren’t filled with hate, nor do they wake up hoping to discriminate against or assault people who are different than them. America is a remarkably tolerant country, and while certainly many people are not comfortable with transgenderism, the majority was at least willing to listen.
But they wanted more than that, much, much more — and people started to get sick of it:
https://x.com/LogCabinGOP/status/1808521148868780054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1808521148868780054%7Ctwgr%5Eec875206a1b0314a4a60be4b23125ac14e57c636%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fbobhoge%2F2026%2F08%2F23%2Ftop-gop-gay-advocacy-group-drops-the-t-in-lgbt-not-the-movement-we-supported-and-fought-for-n2205953
The movement simply took it too far (and continues to). Changing the genders of kids, often without the parents’ knowledge and accompanied by life-changing surgeries and drugs? That’s a bridge too far for most people, and it’s obviously morally wrong to any thinking human.
Watching males steal sports trophies from females and injure them, meanwhile? Nossir. This was especially galling after the fight so many women fought to bring gender equality to athletics. Instead of protecting women and girls with Title IX, former President Joe Gender-Obsessed Biden used the 1972 landmark act to discriminate against them and push the ridiculous idea that boys beating up on girls is “fair” and “moral.”
The Log Cabin Republicans have evidently seen enough.
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Their problem is not the letter, it's the whole thing.
Next, they will drop the “T” from BLT sandwiches.
What about the “+” ??
They were never Republicans.
They were setup to push the GOP to the left
This is how the GOP lost CA
Weird is a little bit of an understatement imo.
No surprise.
For decades, homosexuals have basically said, “I was born this way, and I’m proud of it. I cannot be changed. Don’t send me to some doctor to fix my mind. I’m not broken. God just made me this way, and I’m fine.”
Transsexuals showed up and they said, “I was born wrong and it makes me miserable. I need to be changed. I need medical attention so that a doctor can fix my body. I am broken. God screwed up, but I know better than God and I know how I ought to really be.”
Those two worldviews cannot really co-exist.
Yuppers
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“Remember Lot’s Wife.”
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Jesus
The Overton Window has now gotten to the point, where plain-old homosexuality is considered now to be “conservative”.
LGB/SAG[syphilis/aids/gonorrhea]
Who would have thought that a movement of men in dresses with push-up bras, would have become as powerful and prominent as it has.
Good point.
On the one hand homosexuals say they were born that way.
In the case of transsexuals, transgender type people, they are saying the way they were born was an error. In the most extreme cases, they get hormones and surgeries to try to make their body something that it was not born to be.
Maybe off topic, but I remember in that movie Crocodile Dundee, somebody told Dundee that someone who appeared to be a woman was really a man. Dundee grabbed him downstairs to find evidence that it was really a man. Given how hollywood has gone so darn left nowadays, if that movie was made today, I wonder if that scene would be allowed. I’m sure some leftist types would be outraged at a scene like that. As being transphobic
Gays lie to themselves. They know they weren’t born that way. They were seduced that way by people who abused them, and some of them were too young to realize they had been abused.
Same goes for the transgenders. They have been groomed also.
There’s no way Crocodile Dundee would be made today, in fact I wonder if it’s even available on any streaming services.
ME,Me,me mentally ill. Don’t question my decisions or what led me to my decisions. Accept my actions you ____phobe.
I agree.
But it’s part of the trap of the differing worldviews. Classic homosexual propaganda has always been that they were born that way. They are not damaged, traumatized victims of childhood sexual abuse! Oh no! They are not screwed up mentally ill people! They are perfectly normal!
Transsexuals came along and have made it very clear to everyone just how mentally ill they are. These are messed up people and everyone can see it.
Kind of spoiled the game. In truth, the whole lot of them are all mentally ill and society should go back to telling them all that they are screwed up and should not be allowed around children.
I’m old enough to remember when people did not talk about LGBT. People talked about homosexual , and used terms gay and lesbian. They changed the word gay, so that no one uses the word gay by its dictionary definition anymore.
Then, at some point they started talking about bisexual people.
Then they added in transgender people.
And now there are some letters added after the T for transgender, to indicate people about whom I have no clue about what sort of sexual desires they are involved with.
I think what they try to do is to talk about all sorts of people who are not exclusively heterosexual, with all this LGBT business.
Anyway, I’m not sure. When the term LGBT came into wide usage. Perhaps for political reasons, activists in those areas decided that they should advocate for all sorts of people,of whatever inclinations, which are not exclusively heterosexual.
Bingo. The schizos dally reaming up the body parts against the whole “diversity”
Litterally an ethnic scjizophrenic hack job
Apologies for schizo keyboard
* bingo. The schizos call breaking up the body parts against the whole “diversity”
Litterally an ethnic schizophrenic hack job
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