Conservatives Ask How They Lost the Culture War Over Transgender Rights
The calls for Republicans to fight back against the Caitlyn Jenner sensation.
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On May 28, Sean Fieler wrote a warning about the transgender rights movement, directed to fellow social conservatives. The chairman of the American Principles Project worried that the movement had blown it on Bruce Jenner's story of gender transition.
"Rather than dismiss this change as a politically irrelevant story that belongs in the tabloids, Republicans should view it as a case study in the political power of principle," Fieler argued. "The idea is simple: Your sexual desire, not your biology, constitutes your identity... the rapidly growing acceptance of the previously marginal idea that underlies the transgender moment was only made possible by the Republican decision to opt out of this debate entirely."