Why does PFLAG (originally: Parents and Families of Lesbians and Gay people) now promote so many trans activists? They don’t even stay true to their acronym anymore; their home page says they are “Parents, Families, Friends and Allies United with LGBTQ People.”

It’s not that young people who identify as transgender deserve to be discriminated against. It’s not that they don’t deserve support. Why don’t parents, friends, and allies of transgender-identified youth form their own support and lobbying organizations? (Oh, wait, they have: Organizations like TransActive and Trans Youth and Family Allies are springing up like mushrooms.)

Especially since several decades of replicated research shows that most (75-96%, depending on study) gender nonconforming children, if left alone, grow up to be happy gay, lesbian, or bisexual adults. The current trend of identifying children as young as 18 months as transgender–which includes treating them as the opposite sex–amounts to proactive anti-gay conversion therapy. Effeminate little boys and tomboyish little girls are being herded onto the transition train with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. They don’t even get a fighting chance to discover whether they might someday be non-transitioned gay people. All a rough-and-tumble little girl has to say is, “I’m a boy, mommy!” (as little tomboys who grow up to be lesbian or bisexual have said since forever), and it’s off to the “gender therapist” and the endocrinologist.

Trans activists are very fond of saying that gender identity has nothing to do with sexual preference. If that is the case, why did anyone ever think to tack the “T” onto LGB? Such skillful hijacking while the rest of us were sleeping.

PFLAG families, can’t you see this? If your aim is to neatly slot your child into a gender box, by all means, form organizations to promote and support your offspring.

But proud parents of lesbian and gay people? PFLAG was formed to support your gay and lesbian kids–not co-opt and even undermine their best interests.