Old Socialist’s brief comments.

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Jun 26, 2025

As pelude to Sullivan’s 4313 word diatribe, this reader recalls his entusiasm for The War On Terror that faded, and his entusism for the ‘Bell Curve’ of Charles Murray. Even the New York Magazine ended Sullivan’s employment.

Reader just scan the pages of his commentary, as it metaticises as you attempt to grasp its chock-a-block arguments, or what it might mean, if taken apart to inspect its inner workings?

These ending paragyaphs of Sullivans’ featuring political charlatan Francis Fukuyama, as the one clear voice of sanity, resoliteness, commitment to freedom, ring hollow. Fukuyama is now a commited ‘Liberal’, in the Age Of Trump!

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History strongly suggests that periods of toleration of gay men and lesbians can swiftly end if the public senses an overreach. That may be where we now are. No society has ever been as free for gay men, lesbians and transgender people as the modern West today. There is no such thing as the Human Rights Campaign’s “state of emergency,” and it was absurd to say so. But for some activists, there has to be. As Francis Fukuyama put it in “The End of History and the Last Man,” “Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle against the just cause.”

Returning to a civil rights model and abandoning the quixotic attempt to end the sex binary do not mean, as some might have it, throwing trans people under the bus. Trans people are already on the bus; they are protected from employment discrimination under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Their existing rights should be defended and expanded to public accommodations — especially the adult right to have access to gender medicine through Medicaid, which is now being threatened. Americans should back us on that. But fighting a losing battle to allow trans women to compete in women’s sports and for biological men to be in women’s intimate spaces, and to perpetuate risky, inadequately tested sex changes on children, including gay and lesbian ones, is dumb, offensive to common sense and risks a much bigger backlash.

This does not mean the L.G.B.T.Q.+ project should be shut down entirely. We need to defend our wins; we need to protect the interests of gays, lesbians and trans people. We need to greatly expand help and care for children with gender dysphoria, prevent bullying and increase mental health resources. Protecting them from often irreversible sex changes should not mean abandoning them. It should mean renewed concern, support and, above all, solid, evidence-based research on how best we can help.

But in America, on, this anniversary of the Obergefell decision, we also need to remember a critical thing: We won. We won because we defended free speech, reached out to right and left and center, left others and children alone — and trusted liberal democracy. That trust was rewarded with one of the swiftest successes in civil rights history. Let’s not throw it away.

Editor: This final paragraphs featuring this ‘and trusted liberal democracy’ ! Neo-Consevatives only trust themselves. Leo Strauss re-wrote the History of Philosphy for a reason, Andrew Sullivan and Francis Fukuyama are his benificearies!

Old Socialist.

June 27, 2025

In Sullivan’s diatribe he quotes :

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In the Netherlands, the famous Dutch protocol for gender-affirming care was pioneered in the 1990s with far stricter safeguards in place than exist in the United States today

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One concern is specific for boys who transition to girls in early puberty. “If you’ve never had an orgasm pre-surgery, and then your puberty’s blocked, it’s very difficult to achieve that afterwards,” a pioneering trans surgeon, Dr. Marci Bowers, has said. Research on this is minimal, and so caution is necessary in jumping to conclusions.

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There, of a cohort of 70 adolescents referred to an Amsterdam clinic from 2000 to 2008, 62 were same-sex attracted. And it’s easy to see that one way to “cure” yourself of attraction to the same sex is to become the opposite one. At Britain’s now-shuttered Tavistock clinic, according to the investigative journalist Hannah Barnes, staff members had a dark joke that at the rate they were going, there would be “no gay people left.”

The very fact that ‘In the Netherlands, the famous Dutch protocol for gender-affirming care’, Dr. Marci Bowers, At Britain’s now-shuttered Tavistock clinic, quoted might lead the reader to treat Mr. Sullivan’s hysterical diatribe as just what it is!

Old Socialist.