Former president of GLAAD says we should admit we were wrong

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/5a0avx4AZVCpibxY3B1nb0

GLAAD initially stood for Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and was founded in New York. In 2013 they dropped that to include bi and transgender people. they lobby the media over reporting.

He thinks they were wrong about medicating childrem.

It's locked behind the paywall.

Can't listen to it so I don't know what was said but I did semi read something (which I can't link to because I can't remember where it was) that the 'trans' juggernaut in the USA was pivoting away from attempting to 'trans' children, to much push back, and concentrating on the 'right' for adult's to modify their bodies in any way they want, more money in it. Maybe this confession is part of the pivot.

Don't trust anything proven fantasist and liars say.

This is what he is quoted as saying

“We need to correct what’s wrong,” he told me, “particularly the medicalization of children.”
He continued: “I just think that we should completely stop doing anything that might harm children, even if it admits that we’ve gotten something really wrong. And my understanding is that we have.”

A former leader of a major LGBT organization has publicly stated that they harmed children. Golden bridge from me.

This is remarkable. I’ll listen to the podcast

And if they are realising there's no such thing as a trans child, then all those middle aged men retconning their history must be lying.

Straight men actually.

This journey only goes one way and they're on it now.

I think this is the same episode. You can listen on Apple Podcasts or You Tube

https://benkawaller.substack.com/p/i-made-a-podcast-about-queerness

Here's the intro Ben Kawaller, who does the podcast

"Our first episode follows the evolution of the gay rights movement from the 1950s through Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court case that made gay marriage legal in the US. It tracks how a smattering of independent groups for the sexually outcast became a well-funded, powerful lobbying movement for the sexually celebrated – and what happened when these LGB Americans were approached by a different sexual minority: the Ts.
Episodes 2 and 3 get into the challenges facing a movement whose members have become increasingly diverse in their needs and their philosophies, and how the rapid progress of the LGBTQ project has fed a backlash that many saw coming…and that maybe others should have."

read more at
longviewinvestigations.substack.com/p/the-end-of-lgbtqia

Good.

Let's hope everyone else catches up quickly before more children are harmed.

Strange Bedfellows Part I: When LGB met T

Strange Bedfellows Part II: The Q

Strange Bedfellows Part III: Backlash

Exactly. We can acknowledge and treat/support dysphoria without confirming the delusion of ‘wrong sex’ and allowing gender woo to be seen as scientific fact. Those middle aged men are clearly in need of some kind of psychiatric help, even those with flaming AGP. Our frustration so often manifests as rage, but it’s not really hate, at least not from me. We are sick of gaslighting and men being centred, even those men who claim to be women.

He is not necessarily saying there is no such thing as a trans child. It's possible both to believe in the existence of a "trans child" and to think that many children have been encouraged down a harmful path. As he is saying stop medicalization of children he could have either stopped believing in trans children or decided that its not in their interests to be given drugs.

The quote by Herndon Graddick is from the third episode at around 32:40 mins in which can be heard on YouTube from nauticant's ink above.

All 3 episodes are worth listening to but this is an interesting article that specifically deals with that quote.

https://lynnwoodtimes.com/2026/03/24/trans/

Thank you. It is heartening to see some resistance in the USA to T being teamed with LGB; and especially to see resistance to transitioning children with drugs and surgeries.

Yes, I agree that it's possible to believe in the existence of people who are trans from birth, but also to be against early medical treatment: because the treatment affects the diagnosis/prognosis profoundly in children, in a way that it doesn't in adults; it has severe side effects which ethically only adults should be asked to consent to; deferring transition until adulthood preserves fertility; and FtM transition doesn't need to be done early, because testosterone is so powerful it works anytime (but stunts the growth of adolescents).

TRAs know all these things, even if they don't believe the recent Finnish study, so it's illogical of them to think that medics who are concerned about them are actuated by hatred for trans people, rather than, well, concern for trans people.

I know a TW who thinks in exactly this way. He imagines that in a perfect alternative world he would have been enlightened in childhood as to his condition, and medically transitioned (gonadectomy/œstrogen – this would have been long before PBs) early. He's only thinking about what he would have gained (a feminine body) and not what he would have lost (three children, and (TMI alert) significant sexual function retained because the vaginoplasty was carried out on already mature genitals).

It's just in the nature of things that MtF have to choose between two imperfect alternatives, so why not always pick the one that doesn't involve giving powerful and disruptive medical treatments to children?

When surgeons realised that if you dont develop enough penile tissue it cant be made into a pseudo vagina they stopped encouraging puberty blockers for boys.

Yes, it doesn't necessarily mean they don't believe in it. But, I bet it's the first step.

And then you can more or less leave it up to transactivism.

The violent outrage over disagreement with any of the ideology is what tends to focus people on the veracity of all of it.

Once you start questioning it, you're pretty much leveraging open Pandoras box with a massive, industrial wrench. All manner of things fly out.

Enjoying this series. I'm on ep2 at the moment, just finished the bit where a TIM campaigner (with entirely male voice I might add) whinges that the queer crowd had encroached on the trans movement, co-opted their identity and stole their words.

It sounds really difficult. Imagine.