Last week, I was delighted to discover that a leading legal advocate in the transgender-rights arena had gone on Andrew Sullivan’s podcast, The Weekly Dish, to perform the unthinkable: engage in a civilized, spirited debate across the aisle about gender-transition treatment for minors.
Shannon Minter, a transgender man, is the longtime legal director at the National Center for LGBTQ Rights and has been a pivotal figure in litigation to protect minors’ access to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and gender-transition surgeries to treat gender dysphoria.
Andrew Sullivan, a veteran conservative journalist and a gay man, recently published a mammoth opinion essay in The New York Times arguing that the LGBTQ advocacy movement had gone radically off the rails, in particular by devoting much of its energy to the medical transitions of children.
He wrote:
The gay rights movement, especially in th…
