Charles Moran, chairman of the Log Cabin Republicans, Newsweek The Democratic presidential candidate slammed the move as the “wrong choice” for LGBTQ Americans.
The leader of a national gay Republican group has accused Democratic candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, of being extreme and beholden to the interests of left-wing interest groups.
“Their agenda goes far beyond what our community has sought for decades: equality under the law for LGBT Americans,” Moran wrote. “In reality, Harris and Walz are warriors for a small but powerful cabal of LGBT leftists who want to erase the concept of biological sex from society, expose young children to sexually explicit and ideological content, and strip parents of their rights to make important decisions about their children.”
Moran said a Harris win would empower the LGBTQ community by giving the far-left a seat at the table on federal policies that affect LGBTQ Americans. Moran also pointed to the Biden administration’s guidance on Title IX as an example of policies he believes would be pursued under a Harris-Waltz administration.
Moran bristles at the idea of interpreting “sex” to include gender identity and not just the sex assigned at birth — at least when it comes to anti-discrimination laws and federal agency policies.
The Biden administration has largely embraced such an interpretation as it applies to Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex in educational settings.
Moran argues that focusing on gender identity would deny women sports opportunities by allowing transgender women, or what he calls “biological males,” to compete against women who have strength, endurance and other physiological advantages.
He has criticized Harris for her opposition to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which Harris argues protects parental rights and school-age children by banning the introduction of “gender identity ‘lessons'” in schools and allowing parents to request the removal of “overly sexualized material” from school libraries.
Moran then moved to attack gender-affirming treatment for young people suffering from gender dysphoria, criticizing Walz for signing a bill approved by Minnesota Democrats that would make the state a “safe haven” for transgender minors and their parents seeking gender-affirming treatment that is banned in their home states.
Moran raised fears that gender reassignment surgery is being performed on minors, even though surgical interventions on minors are extremely rare, and said it is “unproven” to address gender dysphoria.
Additionally, Moran argues that “sanctuary” laws for transgender minors, by allowing them to undergo puberty-suppressing drugs, hormone therapy or surgery, “open the door for states to strip parents of their children’s parental rights if the parents object.”
Finally, Moran criticized Democratic rhetoric that portrays former President Donald Trump as taking anti-LGBTQ policy positions, arguing that this is an attempt to distract from the radical pro-LGBTQ policies that the Democratic Party supports.
“They [Trump will] “The Trump administration is legalizing discrimination against the LGBT community, rolling back marriage equality, and targeting LGBT families. These attacks may sound horrifying, and that’s the point, but they’re all patently false,” Moran argues, although the Trump administration has previously argued that adoption and foster care systems should be allowed to discriminate against same-sex couples.
During his administration, Trump also issued executive orders to protect the “religious freedom” of those who oppose same-sex marriage, contraception, and abortion, and formed a task force to come up with other ways in which religious discrimination against LGBTQ people can be justified.
Moran defended Trump, noting that since he began his presidential run, he has publicly supported allowing same-sex couples to marry, as well as supporting in vitro fertilization, which can be used to help gay and lesbian couples have children.
Moran was indirectly criticizing Walz, who has been criticized for signing a bill requiring schools to provide tampons and other menstrual products to students who need them.
Although the actual bill does not explicitly require tampons to be stocked in boys’ bathrooms at schools, conservatives have argued that it does, and have used the hyperbole to portray Walz and Democrats as overly “woke.”
“Equal treatment is something the LGBT community has sought for decades, and we’ve come close to getting it,” Moran wrote. “But far-left demagogues continue to add fuel to the fire, telling us that child sex-reassignment surgery, men in women’s sports, and tampons in men’s bathrooms are the defining civil rights issue of our time. As LGBT conservatives, we won’t accept that, and neither should our voters.”
Source: Metro Weekly – www.metroweekly.com
