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“Logan Lancing” / “ClubZz” / Trevor Stieg vs. transgender people

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“Logan Lancing” is the pen name of Trevor Stieg, an American author and anti-transgender activist. Stieg is co-author of the 2024 book The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids, written with James Lindsay.

Stieg was an invited speaker at a 2025 event held by anti-trans hate group Genspect. Stieg has appeared on podcasts by Jordan Peterson, Benjamin Boyce, and Jan Jekielek of Epoch Times.

Background

Trevor L. Stieg was born in ~1994 and graduated from Burlington High School in Burlington, Wisconsin in 2006. Stieg earned a bachelor’s degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011.

After college, Stieg was an aspiring hip-hop artist, performing under the names “ClubZz” “ClubZ,” and “Stieg” in the Madison area. Stieg released a track called “Outsiders” and announced an EP titled The Worst, which was supposed to come out in 2014. The EP cover featured serial killer Ted Bundy. Stieg also released a video for “One Shot Acapella.” RapCine user Jaynovel wrote: “The homie ClubZz, better known to those who use his government name as Trevor Stieg dropped off his submission for a show to perform in front of Sway and earn a chance at $100,000!!”

Stieg has worked at Forward Service Corporation as training and development team lead.

In 2017, Stieg married interior designer Danielle Leigh Hanlon Stieg (born 1988). They have two children. The elder of the two was the inspiration for Stieg’s pen name.

Anti-trans activism

In 2024, Stieg and James Lindsay submitted written testimony to the United States Senate for a hearing regarding the World Health Organization’s development of new guidelines for trans healthcare:

Queer identities that are “affirmed” in our children by “gender-affirming care” are revolutionary political identities that are, by definition, framed as whatever is at odds with the normal and legitimate. They are not based in any positive truth or stable reality. They are the result of putting children into a destabilizing crisis and then affirming them into a destructive politicized sense of self. They are made seemingly concrete in our children through a Maoist process of ideological remolding into an oppositional, defiant new mold.

The Queering of the American Child

In 2024, Stieg and James Lindsay released The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids. The book’s summary states:

American children are learning a lot about sex, “gender,” and sexuality in their schools. District administrators, teachers, and even librarians are obsessed with pushing inappropriate topics onto kids, all in the name of fostering “inclusion.” Children today learn that they were “assigned a sex at birth” and can change their sex or “gender” at will. Kids are no longer learning to read, write, or do math, but they are learning how to be “radical gender” activists. Meanwhile, school districts keep parents in the dark, hiding critical information about the health and well-being of their children from them.

American education wasn’t like this forty years ago. The cult of Queer Theory changed everything. Inspired by the religious teachings of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Queer Activists “queered” American education. Schools are no longer teaching children how to flourish in society—they are initiating children into the cult of Queer Theory. Once initiated, children “experience the queer” as they adopt a new cult identity and embark on the destructive path of social and medical “transition.”

Catholic World Report named it a best book of 2024, noting it “is not easy reading, but it is necessary reading for anyone seeking unvarnished and relentlessly documented facts about [how] queer has been conquering public education for some thirty years.”

The book’s website includes testimonials by many prominent anti-trans activists, including Laura Becker, Jon Benzinger, Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, Jessica Graham, Darrell B. Harrison, Jennifer Lahl, Karol Markowicz, Alex Newman, Michael O’Fallon, Stella O’Malley, Jay​ Richards, and Andy Woodard.

The Colson Center summarized Stieg’s beliefs:

“The American educational system has been captured by what Logan Lancing has called the cult of gender theory. Just as religious cults gain converts by separating people from their families, activists and educators paint parents and family as hostile to the child’s health.”

In 2025, America First Policy Institute released a report that cited Stieg:

Transgender activists confuse children in many ways, some of them extreme. For example, gender ideology has been likened to a cult due to the abusive “trauma bonding” practices its advocates sometimes use to recruit and retain adherents. As described by Logan Lancing and James Lindsay in The Queering of the American Child (2024, p. xii):

Trauma bonding involves exposing children to age-inappropriate content related to sex, “gender,” and sexuality, causing deep psychological disturbances. These disturbances generate emotions that are difficult to cope with, especially for innocent children who aren’t yet equipped to deal with such topics, especially on fraudulent terms. Once disturbed, children search for affirmation, “healing,” kindness, and love. They find their relief in the very hands that just abused them. (Logan & Lindsay, 2024, p. xii).

In March 2025, anti-trans extremist Erin Friday cited Stieg in an amicus curiae brief in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a US Supreme Court case involving the Montgomery County, Maryland school district’s policies for religious parents seeking to opt out of LGBTQ-inclusive storybooks in its K-5 curriculum. Friday cited Stieg in a similar brief in Chiles v. Salazar, a US Supreme Court case challenging Colorado’s conversion therapy ban. Also signing were several ex-trans activists: Our Duty, Luke Healy, “Ari,” Chloe Brockman, Soren Aldaco, and Kayla Lovdahl.

In September 2025, Stieg presented a speech titled “The War on Normal” at a conference in New Mexico held by anti-trans hate group Genspect. Stieg outlined “how schools and cultural institutions are attempting to reengineer social norms.”

In November 2025, Stieg was announced as a guest along with ex-trans activist “Chloe Cole” at the Alaska Family Council annual dinner.

References

Padget, Donald (February 6, 2024). Right-wing author alleges bizarre ‘neonatal queer theory’ and sonograms to determine LGBTQ+ identities. The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/news/neonatal-queer-theory-claims-conservative

Villareal, Daniel (February 5, 2024). The right’s latest conspiracy theory is queer fetuses. LGBTQ Nation https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/the-rights-latest-conspiracy-theory-is-queer-fetuses/

Schorr, Chrisopher (March 12, 2025). State Reforms to Protect Children from Harmful and Irreversible Transgender Medical Procedures. America First Policy Institute https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/state-reforms-to-protect-children-from-harmful-and-irreversible-transgender-medical-procedures

Jaynovel (December 17, 2014). Trevor Stieg – One Shot Acapella (Vote now!!). RapCine https://rapcine.com/trevor-stieg-one-shot-acapella-vote-now/ [archive]

Knox, Sharon (June 20, 2006). Burlington High School Scholarships and Awards. Burlington Journal Times https://journaltimes.com/news/local/education/article_54cda0e5-5024-5282-9eaf-657b26a8e31e.html

Knox, Sharon (June 20, 2006). Burlington High School Graduates. Burlington Journal Times https://journaltimes.com/news/local/education/burlington-high-school-graduates/article_145b4d2a-572a-57e4-861a-cc9a83056272.html

Coverage in anti-trans press

Minnery, Jim (October 1, 2025). Banned from Texas campus event, fearless de-transitioner is headed back to Alaska. Alaska Watchman https://alaskawatchman.com/2025/10/01/banned-from-texas-campus-event-fearless-de-transitioner-is-headed-back-to-alaska/

Minnery, Jim (August 13, 2025). OPINION: Help us ‘cause disruption’ in Alaska schools that aim to queer our kids. Alaska Watchman https://alaskawatchman.com/2025/08/13/opinion-help-us-cause-disruption-in-alaska-schools-that-aim-to-queer-our-kids/

Staff report (July 25, 2025). Finding Solutions Means Asking Hard Questions. Genspect https://genspect.org/finding-solutions-means-asking-hard-questions/

O’Malley, Stella (June 22, 2025). Genspect Goes to New Mexico. Live Not by Lies: Conversations for a Culture in Crisis Albuquerque, New Mexico – September 27–28, 2025. Genspect https://genspect.org/genspect-goes-for-the-bigger-picture-again/

Cragg, Daniel; Friday, Erin (June 13, 2025). Amicus Curiae brief in Chiles v. Salazar, US Supreme Court Case No. 24-539. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-539/363170/20250613141524591_Our%20Duty%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf

McCalister, Mary E.; Friday, Erin (March 10, 2025). Amicus Curiae brief in Tamer Mahmoud, et al., Petitioners v. Thomas W. Taylor, et al., US Supreme Court Case No. 24-297. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-297/351574/20250310121624554_24-297%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf

Stonestreet, John; Padgett, Timothy (August 14, 2024). Kids Are Not the State’s: Children belong to God, entrusted to parents. Breakpoint / Colson Center https://breakpoint.org/kids-are-not-the-states/

Minick, Jeff (June 18, 2024). Queer Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means. Chronicles https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/queer-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-means/

Lindsay, James (March 12, 2024). Queer Theory is the Doctrine of a Sex-Based Cult. New Discourses https://newdiscourses.com/2024/03/queer-theory-doctrine-sex-based-cult/

Selected anti-trans writing by Stieg

“Lancing, Logan” (February 27, 2024). Somewhere Over The Rainbow: Introducing The Queering of the American Child. New Discourses https://newdiscourses.com/2024/02/somewhere-over-the-rainbow/

Lindsay, James; “Lancing, Logan” (February 20, 2024). Why to Reject the WHO Over “Gender-Affirming Care.” New Discourses https://newdiscourses.com/2024/02/reject-the-who-gender-affirming-care/

Books

Stieg, Trevor [as “Logan Lancing”]; Lindsay, James (2024). The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids. New Discourses, ISBN 979-8989741694

Stieg, Trevor [as “Logan Lancing”] (2022). The Woke Warpath: How Marxists Use Race and Gender to Break America. Logan Lancing, ISBN ‎ 979-8985993202

Media

“Logan Lancing” (October 3, 2024). What Is Queer Theory? What You Must Know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcvGU_gpFg4

Concerned for New Mexico – CCIA (September 15, 2024). SAVE OUR CHILDREN EVENT-James Lindsay,Ben Luna, Logan Lancing,Sarah Smith, Juan Garcia, Casey & Myke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVPujTIA6pI

Jordan B Peterson with :Logan Lancing” (August 19, 2024). The Unholy Essence of Qu**r | Logan Lancing | EP 473. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV2ChmvvbVg

“Logan Lancing” (June 3, 2024). Woke Vision Ep. 2 – Queer Pedagogy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmMIJkW4kIc

American Thought Leaders – The Epoch Times with Jan Jekielek, James Lindsay, and “Logan Lancing” (June 1, 2024). To Pass as ‘Normal’, Kids Must be ‘Queer.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y5s17ZYmWI

“Logan Lancing” (April 18, 2024). The Lancing Ep. 5 – Navigating Parental Resistance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsIAmBpEYG0

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce and “Logan Lancing” (March 22, 2024). So Over The Rainbow: US Education | with Logan Lancing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zofwUJlpxC4

“Logan Lancing” (February 26, 2024). The Lancing Ep. 002 – The Queering of the American Child. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p8wVgEzDpk

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce, James Lindsay, and “Logan Lancing” (January 24, 2024). The Queering of the American Child | with James Lindsay & Logan Lancing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaAtO6fXBlg

RapCine (2014). Trevor Stieg – One Shot Submission/ACAPELLA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uusDn44CoKE [deleted]

Solystic (2013). “All I Care” Featuring Trevor Stieg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yeoi1x5OMx8 [deleted]

Resources

“It’s Not in Schools” / It’s in Schools (itsnotinschools.com)

The Queering of the American Child (queeringbook.com)

New Discourses (newdiscourses.com)

Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes (coast2coastmixtapes.com)

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