Transgender Ideology Shows Its True Colors

Why the dynamics of 2026 are completely different from one year ago

Tyler Robinson wore a tie with transgender colors to court. Stop gaslighting me that there is reasonable doubt about his motive to kill Charlie Kirk. Just stop

In 2016, the NBA could cancel North Carolina for a ‘bathroom bill’. In 2026, transgender advocacy can barely make it to the men’s room. The decade of cultural and political ascendancy for ‘gender identity’ is over. The decline of what we might call ‘gender imperialism’, the demand for newly-minted rights that collapse existing civil and human rights under the rubric of ‘gender identity’, is now evident. North Carolina Republicans ended 2025 by passing a bill to recognize only two sexes in the state, overriding a veto by Democrat Gov. Josh Stein, and it has barely made a blip on the national news radar.

One year ago I said that the shine had worn off ‘gender identity’ as a civil rights cause because violence has always been intrinsic to the project of ‘gender identity’ medicalization. Examples of violent words and imagery directed…