On this week’s episode of Citation Needed, we cover the Trevor Project’s dark slide into promoting pseudoscientific gender ideology under the guise of helping distressed LGBTQ youth. Once a lifeline for bullied gay teens, the Trevor Project now pushes ideas like “sex is a spectrum” and gender ideology as fact, priming confused kids for medicalization instead of acceptance. We break down their “Understanding Gender Identities & Pronouns” resource, exposing how it creates confusion, pathologizes gender nonconformity, and replaces the message of “It gets better” with “It gets surgical.”
In our supporter-only second segment, we dive into the unhinged world of queer whale theory just as Pride Month comes to an end. Yes, really. We explore how activist academics are determined to queer sea life—especially whales—to push ideological narratives about sexuality and gender in nature. It’s weird, it’s revealing, and it’s a perfect reminder that the rainbow industrial complex never sleeps.
