By Jennifer Roback Morse July 17, 2025, at The Blaze
The same tactics used to undermine the definition of marriage have now been applied to biological sex.
This is part of an ongoing series on the relationship between the campaign for redefining marriage and trans activism.
“The greater acceptance of trans people is a huge step forward for all of us,” writes prominent gay marriage advocate Andrew Sullivan in a recent New York Times opinion piece. “But abolishing the sex binary for the entire society? That’s a whole other thing entirely. And madness, I believe.”
Sullivan is hardly alone among fellow LGBT activists in thinking that the movement with which he once identified has gone too far.
But the trans radicals are not so different from the “mainstream” that now disavows them. In fact, these trans radicals use tactics pioneered and perfected during the fight to redefine marriage.
Imposed tolerance
As one who defended (and continues to defend) marriage between a man and a woman as good public policy, I can only say this: We tried to tell you.
Mr. Sullivan’s 1996 book “Virtually Normal” presented gay marriage as a modest demand for “formal public equality” before the law, while rejecting the “political imposition of tolerance” and “the regulation of people’s minds and actions.”
Ten years after Obergefell finally made this “equality” the law of the land, Sullivan is scandalized to find that the newly ascendant trans wing has no intentions of stopping there:
