Log Cabin Republicans Vote to Drop Transgender Advocacy and Just Be ‘LGB’ Organization

The Log Cabin Republicans announced their Board of Directors had voted to drop transgender issues, stating the group was now an “LGB advocacy organization.”

LCR was founded in the late 1970s in connection with opposition to a ballot initiative in California that sought to ban gay and lesbian people from teaching in the state’s public schools.

The group’s current president, Ross Hemminger, wrote an op-ed at Townhall explaining the policy change, a reversal of a past Board vote in 2015 that added the “T.”

LCR had previously added transgender issues, wrote Hemminger, “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 the inalienable rights of others.”

However, he continued, the situation was different today because “[t]he 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.” Hemminger criticized “radical gender ideology” being pushed in schools, allowing “biological men in women’s sports regardless of the consequences,” and “gender reassignment treatments for minors, often without the knowledge or consent of the parents, knowing full well these treatments are mostly irreversible.”

This “new era of gender identity politics” was no longer “the movement we supported and fought for,” wrote Hemminger, and now “[g]ay men and women are losing public support across the country, and support for gay marriage and other once-widely accepted rights is eroding.”

This was happening, he argued, “[b]ecause many voters today weren’t alive or cognizant of the politics of gay marriage winding its way through the courts and gaining ground in public opinion,” so now “[t]heir view of the gay community is based on today’s radical transgender activists with their unnecessary and discomfiting focus on America’s youth.”

As a result, wrote Hemminger, LCR’s Board had voted “after significant discussion with our membership” 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.”

He emphasized that there was no change in the group’s membership rules, which remained “open to all conservatives.”

LCR updated their website and social media at some point after the vote to replace “LGBT” with “LGB.” The section of the website that shared LCR’s history was updated to reference “LGB” where it used to say “LGBT,” confirmed by comparing to recent past versions saved on internet archives.

The LCR’s Board vote came after the membership had been embroiled in a debate about transgender issues for months, as President Donald Trump and other Republican politicians have taken some anti-transgender positions.

The national LCR declined to endorse Trump in 2o16, but several of the state and county chapters did, and in both 2020 and 2024, the group endorsed him and actively supported his campaign, including deploying field staff and organizing rallies.

A few days into Trump’s second term, he signed an executive order to ban transgender people from the military. He has also been outspoken in voicing his opposition to transgender athletes participating in sports against biological women. Trump is currently featured on the LCR homepage.

Screenshot via Log Cabin Republicans website.

Several past and current LCR members voiced their thoughts about the vote. On social media, many appeared to support the vote to “drop the T” but that was not a unanimous view.

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