The Disappointment of the Gay Rights Movement

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I'm disappointed in the gay rights sort of community and movement. I feel like this ideology really cuts to the core of their original mission statement. This world is less accepting of a feminine gay males or masculine, lesbian females because they are now being told that their feelings regarding their sexuality were born in the wrong body. Once you start down this road of hormones or surgery, these are now medical issues that need to be addressed and monitored for the rest of someone's life. And we're going to see their lives are being shortened as a result of all of these interventions.

According to conservative commentator Bethany Mandel, “the Left is waging an all-out battle on the American family, particularly the youngest members. If they can make our children miserable, lead them to question every building block of society, and rebuild their entire concept of reality, then the Left and their woke indoctrinators will consider that a victory.” She firmly believes “Our children’s lives and the survival of our families are at stake.”

In this honest conversation, Dr. Shermer disagrees with some of Mandel's conclusions, agrees with others, and pushes back against certain aspects of her worldview.

Shermer and Mandel discuss: • anecdotes vs. data about children and politics • What is a woman? What is a man? • sex and gender • woke medicine • transgender affirming care • libraries and publishers of children’s books • abortion: pro-Choice or pro-Life? • support for children: government or private?

Bethany Mandel is a columnist for Fox News and a homeschooling mother of six. She has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, Spectator, and more. Her new book is Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation.