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As divisions deepen within the Rainbow coalition, LGB voices distance themselves from transgender activism, citing biological, medical and legal concerns — and calling for a return to first principles.

The LGBTIQ+ Rainbow Flag has been the symbol of diversity since 1978. At some time in their lives, many, including me, have waved the flag in support of people who fought hard to have their differences recognised and understood.

Yet only weeks into 2026, the Rainbow Flag is disintegrating. The Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) segments have finally realised the one in, all in philosophy is not for them. The Transgender, Queer and Agenda (TQA+) segments will have to dance alone.

Attraction vs Identity: A Fundamental Divide

Why are LGB folks suddenly moved to divorce? The irreconcilable difference is simple. LGB is attraction preference. It’s whom they like. TQA+ is who they identify as. It’s who they are. Fundamentally different things.

Enmeshed in this is the one issue where Christians and the LGB community meet. Both agree that sex is binary and can never change. Christians know God created male and female, not a spectrum of things in-between. LGB know the biological fact that there are only two sexes. The Bible and modern science undeniably agree. After that, it gets mucky.

With this fundamental difference in belief, how did LGB and TQA+ even get together in the first place? Let’s look to history.

People have been cross-dressing (cosmetically pretending to be the opposite sex) for thousands of years. Sometimes for money. Sometimes for a laugh. Sometimes, well, just because.

My grandfather did. As a recreational member of the Sydney Push – an alternate thinking group in post-war Sydney, Herbert Dye would attend ‘meetings’ dressed as a woman. He’d sing and play the piano – very well, I’m told. He entertained the likes of Clive James, Barry Humphries and Germaine Greer. I never saw him in his frock and wig, yet my oldest sister did. She told me he was sort of ‘beautiful’. She said Grandma tolerated it – just.

This was maybe because he was paid. Extra cash was important, and people did all sorts of things to help pay the bills. People still do.

His transvestite outings, an accepted part of who he was, were in costume only – a tool to perhaps give vent to his feminine psyche, yet more likely to supplement his income. An engineer by trade, he would revert to his blokey self for the working week and spend time with ‘The Push’ every second weekend. His workmates knew all about it. No one cared.

Medicine, Minors and Mounting Concerns

Yet there’s a big difference between what Grandpa did and what’s happening today. In his time, there were no puberty blockers for pre-teens, hormones for teenagers and the possibility of surgery to help adolescents ‘affirm’ their gender desires. He wasn’t ‘celebrated’, didn’t push transvestite ideas in schools and didn’t demand to play sport with women. How could he? He umpired district men’s cricket every Saturday in summer.

When the LGBTQA+ alliance was formed, there were very few points of difference between the segments. The word ‘transgender’ wasn’t invented. The word ‘transvestite’ referred to men who put on a wig, frock and lippy. It was cosmetic. I’d imagine very few believed they were actual women.

That wig, frock and lippy have turned into puberty blockers, hormones and surgery. Puberty blockers or hormone suppressants do exactly what they say, yet there’s been no human research into their mid-long-term effects when used for gender dysphoria. That’s right, none.

The only research has been on sheep, and that didn’t go well. While the blockers stopped the sheep’s puberty, there was a clear negative impact on their brain. Sheep who could previously navigate a maze were downright confused. Even when the hormones lost to puberty blockers were replaced, their spatial memory and ability to learn didn’t return.

Now I’m unsure about you, but if a doctor suggested I use a drug that had never been tested for its side effects on humans, but had proved disastrous to another mammal, I’d run a mile.

However, as you are reading this, gender clinics in most Australian states are prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to 9-16-year-olds. These kids, like all adolescents, are anxious and prone to negative emotions, resulting in ridiculous decisions. That’s what an adolescent is.

A 2021 study by the Westmead Children’s Hospital Gender Clinic found that 77% of kids presenting with gender dysphoria had experienced childhood trauma, often including sexual abuse, family violence or parental mental illness. They were anxious and mentally distressed.

No wonder the kids want a change! In the current gender-affirming model, however, this depression resulting from childhood trauma and family dysfunction goes ignored and untreated – an oversight that could indeed be regarded as a form of child abuse.

Politics, Pride and the Push for Biological Truth

Most in the LGB community don’t push their sexual preference. They don’t regard themselves as ‘special’, and they don’t want to be celebrated.

Many trans-activist sites, however, ones like Victoria’s Minus18, ‘champion’ gender transitioning among children with special celebratory events.

They even have a ‘Queer Formal’ for teenagers aged 12-19, where parents aren’t allowed, and no parental permission is required. Surely any worthwhile parent would seriously ask why their 12-year-old would want to hang out with a 19-year-old and vice versa? Red flags galore!

Since 2010, this type of aggressive promotion of gender ideology has seen the number of children with gender dysphoria rise 50-fold. Statistics reveal that at least 60% of these kids will progress to puberty blockers, hormones and a medicalised existence. Some will move to mutilating surgery and a life of regret. None of it will relieve the psychological distress that existed before transitioning.

On seeing all this, it’s no wonder the LGB are divorcing the TQA+. With the possibility of massive future litigation against gender clinics, it’s a necessary divorce. Guilt by association can be a lasting and expensive sentence.

As politicians virtue-signal by marching under the trans flag this Mardi Gras or Pride, they would do well to make a similar decision before it’s too late. Elections can’t be far off. Sign the Declaration of Biological Truth to speak up for the children.

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Phil Dye is the Founder of the Declaration of Biological Truth Australia. Image courtesy of Adobe.