Some people spill tea, others drop T. Log Cabin Republicans announced it is becoming an LGB organization instead of LGBT.

President Ross Hemminger wrote in Townhall, “Our Board of Directors voted 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.”

This is the latest attempt to curry favor with a Republican party that is generally hostile to LGBTQ rights. 

Parroting Republican talking points, Hemminger said the trans rights movement focuses too much on youth and opposes sex change operations on minors, which is not something that happens, and trans participation in sports. Last year fewer than 50 trans women tried to play in high school athletics.

Log Cabin politicians are generally hostile to LGBTQ rights. They supported Florida’s “Don’t say gay” law for kindergarten through third grade and then its expansion to include high school.

The most prominent trans Republican is Caitlyn Jenner. Around the time she came out as trans and Republican in 2015, Log Cabin added the T to their mission. The org tweeted out “Welcome to the world @Caitlyn_Jenner! Log Cabin Republicans congratulates you for being true to yourself in all ways! #BigTent.”

No trans-centric group has responded to the announcement, which itself  may be a comment on how few trans people identify as trans. However, this can highlight a bigger discussion on trans in the LGBTQ community.

Local trans activist Rajee Narinesingh told OutSFL, “The Log Cabin Republicans dropping the 'T' from LGBTQ isn’t just disappointing — it’s a political betrayal wrapped in cowardice. And let’s be honest: it’s the predictable outcome of aligning with a movement that has never truly embraced transgender people.”

Adrianna Tender called it “an act of political cowardice and a betrayal of the transgender people who have fought alongside the broader LGBTQ+ community for decades.”

Some say independent voters are alienated by trans rights, something Republicans have been exploiting for years. Some people believe if the community stops advocating for trans, LGB rights will surge forward.

Others believe once the T is dropped, conservatives will come for the L, the G, and the B in short order.