Ruth Institute Blog

Dennis Prager asks this question Why the “T” in LGBT? Paraphrasing his answer: the Transgender people stand for the proposition that male and female are interchangeable, that all distinctions based on gender or sex are arbitrary. Prager sees this as being of a piece with the Left’s desire to obliterate all kinds of distinctions.
I would add this: I think the Transgender people stand for the proposition that a person can choose every aspect of their identity, as opposed to the idea that some things are given to us by nature. I think this fits in with the distinctively modern idea that there is no intrinsic good, apart from human willing.
Read Prager’s whole article here.

Jim Brown – OneNewsNow

The Obama administration plans to set up “the nation’s first national resource center” for older homosexual, bisexual, and transgender Americans.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday announced in a press release that the new Resource Center for LGBT Elders “will provide information, assistance, and resources for both LGBT organizations and mainstream aging services providers at the state and community level to assist them in the development and provision of culturally sensitive supports and services.” The Administration on Aging will be awarding a Resource Center grant of $250,000 per year. Read more…