Analysis:
LGBT “Log Cabin” Republicans abandon the “T” in attempt to appear “conservative”
The organization may be reducing its speed but still pursues anti-family policies which harm children, undermine families, and weaken our society.
It will always be incompatible with conservatism.
The Log Cabin Republicans have been a part of the national CPAC conferences for decades. This is their booth at the 2025 CPAC conference. [Photo: CNN]NOTE: In recent decades the LGBT “Log Cabin” Republicans have successfully infiltrated state and national GOP and affiliated organizations. This is despite its acknowledged goals of making the Republican Party more “inclusive” of homosexuality and supporting “gay marriage,” adoption by same-sex couples, and oppressive anti-discrimination laws.
Their influence with GOP politicians and laws has become far-reaching. But most conservatives are only vaguely aware of it.
In the article below, Arthur Schaper deconstructs the recent announcement by the Log Cabin Republican leadership, and reveals the truth about the group and its movement.
The Log Cabin Republicans work to get pro-LGBT Republicans across the country elected to Congress and state legislatures.
Log Cabin Republicans Lie Regarding the Transgender 'T'
By Arthur Schaper | August 26, 2026
The organization may be reducing its speed but still pursues anti-family policies which harm children, undermine families, and weaken our society.
[Note: A previous version of this article appeared in American Thinker.]
The Log Cabin “Republicans,” the so-called “gay conservative” faction within the GOP, have announced that they will no longer rally or vouch for the T, i.e., they are ceasing their transgenderism advocacy.
We should all celebrate, right?
No… We could say the devil (or drag queen?) is in the details.
Their former Communications Director and current President, Ross Memminger, published a full statement on Townhall.com outlining this new policy.
As an interesting side note, Hemminger provides PR and Media Relations at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). Big Pharma loves LGBT, since that population requires so much medication and ongoing care due to the destructive behaviors rampant among homosexual and transgender populations.
Here are the main points of Hemminger’s statement:
In 2015, the Log Cabin Republicans Board of Directors voted to add the ‘T’ under the umbrella of our mission — out of a belief that all adults should be allowed to pursue their own happiness, free of government interference, as long as it did not impede on [sic] the inalienable rights of others. At the time, we did not believe that we would find ourselves where we are today. The transgender movement has ceased focusing on adults at all — nearly all of their efforts and those of their aligned special interest groups focus on minors …
That is why, after significant discussion with our membership, our Board of Directors voted to refine Log Cabin Republicans’ national advocacy focus to concentrate specifically on issues of sexual orientation and conservative values — in other words, we are an LGB advocacy organization, as our founders envisioned and as our moral center calls us to be.
There is so much to confront and expose here!
Since when has the pursuit of transgenderism resulted in “happiness”? Study after study has affirmed that transgender populations suffer disproportionately from mental health dysfunction as well as multiple physical problems. Since when does advocacy for such mental illness constitute a pursuit of anything besides doctor visits, hospital stays, and medical bills?
Furthermore, we have witnessed over the last ten years that, indeed, transgenderism does violate the rights of others. No women want to share their sports rosters, locker rooms, or bathrooms with a biological male cosplaying as female. How many women and girls have been harmed sparring with these confused, creepy men masquerading as women?!
Clearly, the unalienable rights of women have been violated, and for quite some time.
Look at the scores of detransitioners calling out the abusive medicalization of children struggling with identity dysphoria or growing up in at-risk environments. Those children needed counseling, not the destruction of their natural hormones and mutilation of their chests and genitals.
The rising awareness and outrage with the transgender cult has been unmistakable for years. Yet only now do the Log Cabin Republicans choose to take a stand?
Hemminger claims that his gay “conservative” group never anticipated all the gender-bending madness that would ensue from the “trans rights” demands. Really? He could have looked at Massachusetts, when its Supreme Judicial Court forced “same-sex marriage” on the state in 2003-2004 by complete judicial fiat – with enabling from Governor Mitt Romney. In the immediate aftermath, transgender advocacy exploded across the Commonwealth (including in the schools).
And very soon after that ruling, a more transformative, fundamentally damaging change took place: Massachusetts marriage licenses changed their text from “Husband and Wife” to “Partner A and Partner B” – more gender-bending.
That is the essence of transgenderism: erasing the inescapable, irreducible, inalienable differences between male and female.
Homosexuality at its core treats men as if they are women, since they are forced into receptive sexual activities. Women act out dominant “masculine” roles with other women. Thus the seeds of transgenderism were already rooted in homosexual advocacy and normalization. So the Log Cabin “Republicans” have no standing to play dumb or be shocked by such negative developments.
Note also that the Log Cabin inverts have no problem with transgenderism among adults. Yet they should. We all should. No one should aid and abet mental illness, and no one should be forced to go along with such a monstrous, destabilizing lie.
I also had to laugh at the specific phrase, “[W]e are an LGB advocacy organization, as our founders envisioned and as our moral center calls us to be.” There is no “moral center” that can justify or promote homosexuality. Sodomy is inherently destructive. The Catholic Church catechism recognizes such behaviors as disordered. The Bible calls it an abomination. Hemminger’s use of the phrase “our founders envisioned” is a perverse invocation of the true Founding Fathers of our nation: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, et al. These men would never have countenanced, let alone tolerated, sodomy or cross-dressing.
Here’s the biggest fraud. They claim that they are backing away from the T because of “the children." True to their subversive agenda, this LGB(T) advocacy organization attempts to pose as a bunch of leave-us-alone do-gooders who want what’s best for the kids.
The real reason for the group’s pivot is more selfish and insidious. Heminger adds:
However, the new era of gender identity politics is not the movement we supported and fought for. Gay men and women are losing public support across the country, and support for gay marriage and other once-widely accepted rights is eroding. Why? Because many voters today weren’t alive or cognizant of the politics of gay marriage winding [sic] its way through the courts and gaining ground in public opinion. Their view of the gay community is based on today’s radical transgender activists with their unnecessary and discomfiting focus on America’s youth.
They don’t really care about the kids. They care about themselves and the so-called privileges they have acquired through judicial fiat and media/cultural/political jamming. Notice the replete falsehoods, like “gay men and women,” as though sexual conduct is an innate identity.
Notice also that they blame the transgender madness for the increasing opposition to “same-sex marriage” and so-called gay rights. The truth is that the public is recognizing that all the problems that pro-family activists warned would happen, have happened. Children are being trafficked like commodities to gay couples via surrogacy. Creepy teachers and other professional groomers are pushing LGBT propaganda on children in the public schools, often without the parents’ knowledge or permission. And who can ignore the numerous churches, charities, and small businesses unduly harmed by vexatious litigation if they refuse to “bake the cake”?
The Log Cabin Republicans are trying to take cover from the growing onslaught against the LGBT agenda by taking a wobbly stance against transgenderism. Already, the pro-LGBT Left has assailed this group and mocked them for their “capitulation.”
And the Right should speak up as well – and reject that entire cultural Marxist agenda. The Log Cabin “Republicans” are advocating for all sorts of harm to our constitutional republic and the American body politic. They may change course or reduce their speed, but they still pursue an anti-family agenda which harms children, undermines families, and hurts society as a whole.
If the Log Cabin Republicans want to do good for the country, they would disband entirely.
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