We need our community leaders to get truly bold, and help us not only accept and protect our transgender community members, but also to unlock the floodgates of information and self-examination. Guest columnist

Gender identity debates are not just a looming factor over future elections; they’re also the hidden crisis in our LGBTQ+ communities.

They’re leading to bad habits learned and normalized, dysfunctional approaches to differences, loss of credibility outside of the subculture, allies being misinformed, a smearing of the line between fact and opinion, purity codes that rival conservatives, and the marginalization tactics that come with those self-righteous demands.

I’d heard of this dysfunction before ― but I experienced it directly after my first essay in March here in the Des Mo

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