Welcome 2026 - It's Getting Better, Right?
The title of PITT’s December 30, 2022 essay was Bring on 2023: The Year the Tide will Turn. The tide didn’t turn in 2023 or 2024 but it is now, and in a big way. Trans-ideology became a hot topic during the election. Some say it swung the election to Trump. Remember the “Kamala’s for they/them. President Trump is for you” ads anyone? So the tide has been turning, but hasn’t quite turned yet. Perhaps 2026 will be the year.
That effort got a big boost yesterday when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced restrictions to ban the transitioning of minors saying, "This is not medicine. This is malpractice”. Here’s hoping some major institutions (academia, medicine, psychiatry) will finally open their eyes to what the majority of the world knows —that gender affirming care is not care or medicine or science. And that trans ideology is a cancer eroding women’s rights, destroying lives and ripping families apart.
We parents need to be hopeful, even if our children are still stuck in this cult. So, as we welcome 2026, here are some highlights in the fight to end trans ideology. Honestly, there was lots to choose from. Feel free to add your own in the comments.
And Happy New Year from the editors of PITT. Hang in there.
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The year got off to a rocking start with President Trump’s executive order to define man and woman and what that means for federal legislation. In February a hospital in Los Angeles, of all places, banned cross-sex hormones for children under 19. In March a young, hip Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives gave an impassioned speech defending the rights of women in the face of encroachment by trans-ideology. April brought a UK Supreme Court decision to define women based on sex, not gender. In May the Economist defended the science behind the Administration’s gender policies. In June the US Supreme Court upheld restrictions on the transitioning of minors. In July the need for those restrictions was reaffirmed by the Federal Trade Commission which is investigating the false claims of “gender-affirming care”. In August Britain’s Labour party announced an ideological shift on gender. In October JK Rowling told Emma Watson where to stick it. In November the US Health and Human Services department released a report on the evils of pediatric gender “medicine”. In December the great Leor Sapir exposed what gender doctors really think about the gender medicine they practice. Spoiler alert, they don’t know what they’re doing. Also in December, a California judge affirmed parents’ constitutional right to be informed if their minor child socially transitions at school. And to close out the year, we got a nice piece from Helen Joyce on what this will all look like when it’s over. Because we all know this is coming to an end.
So, is the tide turning? If you have a child or loved one caught in this madness it may be hard to see but, yes, it is.
February - Children’s Hospital L.A. stops initiating hormonal therapy for transgender patients under 19
March - New Hampshire Representative breaks ranks with Democrats to stand up for women
April - UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex
May - Where the Trump administration has science on its side
June - Supreme Court upholds Tennessee ban on transgender youth medical care
July - The Dangers of “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors
August - The Gender War Is Over in Britain
September - Helen Joyce’s best moments
October - JK Rowling response to Emma Watson
November - HHS Releases Peer-Reviewed Report Discrediting Pediatric Sex-Rejecting Procedures
December - ‘We’re All Just Winging It’: What the Gender Doctors Say in Private and Federal Judge Issues Permanent Injunction Against Parental Exclusion Policies in California Schools
Bonus - What happens to those caught up in the social contagion, once it has passed?
My personal situation is worse now than a year ago, so this overview is helpful to balance that. I'll continue to hope for the tide to change for the better for all even if that doesn't reach me personally. Not all kids will exit and not all families will reunite, but many kids and families are moving in a better direction. I'll keep writing with that hope in mind. Thank you for this forum. I appreciate you all.
I'd like to think the tide is turning. Son Matt, who's been in the forefront of the battle against this madness for many years, thinks it's already turned. I'm not so sure.
My concern is that when the Democrats return to power -- I said "when," not "if" -- they will quickly undo the good things that Trump's administration has done during the first year of his presidency.
Meanwhile, my sense is that the Forces of Evil have not disappeared or surrendered; they've gone to ground and are biding their time. They're secure in the knowledge that they'll never be held to account for their destruction of young lives and families.
That said, neither should we discount or downplay all the very significant developments outlined in the above post. Hope springs eternal after all.
Yet we would also do well not to forget Paul's famous warning from Scripture (Ephesians 6:12): "Our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers and powers of darkness..."
You have to know the nature of the enemy...and the nature of the battle...in order to have any chance of winning it.