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First Things vs. transgender people

First Things as a conservative American magazine that publishes consistently anti-transgender content.

Prominent anti-trans contributors include Charlotte Allen, Paul McHugh, Valerie Stivers, Jennifer Bilek, Ryan T. Anderson, Carl R. Trueman.

Selected anti-trans articles

Allen, Charlotte (March 4, 2019). Trans men erase women. First Things https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/03/trans-men-erase-women

Jennifer Bilek (January 21, 2020). The Billionaires Behind the LGBT Movement. https://firstthings.com/the-billionaires-behind-the-lgbt-movement/

Katherine Kersten (December 1, 2016). Transgender Conformity .https://firstthings.com/transgender-conformity/

Carl R. Trueman How the Transgender Lobby Is Using a Teen’s Death https://firstthings.com/a-most-significant-death/

Robert A. J. Gagnon No, God Isn’t Transgender https://firstthings.com/no-god-isnt-transgender/

Jordan Zajac The Semiotics of Transgender Bathroom Signage https://firstthings.com/the-semiotics-of-transgender-bathroom-signage/

Br. Michael Baggot The Danish Girl: Transgender Apologetic, or Rebuttal?

Phillip Cary Transgender Deconstruction

Theresa Farnan and Mary Rice Hasson Skrmetti Is a Partial Victory for Common Sense

Kevin Staley-Joyce Transgender Denial at Smith College

Mark Bauerlein The Rhetoric of Anti-Discrimination

Carl R. Trueman Whose Gender? Which Identity?

Carl R. Trueman Terf Wars

Xavier Rynne II Letters from Rome 2025, No. 6—The Papal Interregnum

Matthew Burdette The Right to Be Killed

Carl R. Trueman Gender Non-Conformity Running Roughshod over Parents’ Rights

Carl R. Trueman The Travails of Lieutenant Marty

Glenn T. Stanton Is There an LGBT “Community”?

Carl R. Trueman Anti-Humanism at Home and Abroad

Joe Carter Obama Celebrates the “Immeasurable Contributions” of Homosexual/Bisexual/Pansexual/Polysexual/Asexual Americans

Wesley J. Smith Sex Change Treatment for 7 Year Olds!

Carl R. Trueman A Cheer for Greer (with a little help from Geoffrey and John)

James R. Rogers The Whig Narrative and American Christianity

Edmund G. Seebauer Engineers for the Gospel

Carl R. Trueman Naught for our Comfort

Liel Leibovitz Radical Disembodiment

Carl R. Trueman The Revolution Eats One of Its Own Midwives

John Inazu Confident Pluralism: A Response

William Boot Is Satan a Straight White Cis Male?

Kari Jenson Gold Make Abortion Great Again?

Matthew J. Franck The Disturbing (and Disturbed) “T” in LGBT

Joe Carter Obama Puts the T in GLBT

Russell E. Saltzman Not Your Smallest Lutheran Church

Owen Strachan The Church is Wrong

Carl R. Trueman A Hint of Thermidorian Reaction?

Mark A. Yarhouse Understanding Gender Dysphoria: A Reply to Gagnon

Carl R. Trueman When You Unchain the Earth from the Sun

Jennifer Ferrara The Veneration of David Bowie

Peter J. Leithart Invasive Gnosticism

R. R. Reno While We’re At It

Carl R. Trueman Are the Tech Bros Worse than Queer Theorists?

R. R. Reno While We’re At It

Mark Misulia Canadian Curriculum

Wesley J. Smith Anything Goes Crowd of Scientism is at it Again

Carl R. Trueman The Body of Evidence

Peter J. Leithart Austen Updated

Megan Basham When Progressive Foundations Fund Evangelism

Peter J. Leithart Christian Nation, Yes and No

Amanda Shaw Literary Science

Ryan T. Anderson Only in California 


Keith Pavlischek More on D.C.’s Same-Sex Marriage Vote

Joe Carter Taking the Right Seriously

Joe Carter Yale Doesn’t Like Sissies

David Mills Alphabet Sexualities

Joe Carter Thirty Three Things (v. 1)

Meghan Duke The Etiquette of Gendering

Joe Carter First Links – 09.02.11

Mark Misulia Thomas Farr on the Promotion of Gay Rights Abroad

Robert P. George Legally Recognized Multi-Partner Unions: Why Not?

Katherine Infantine Episcopalian Bishop “Welcomes” Catholic Bishop

Ryan T. Anderson The New York Times, Same-Sex Attraction, and Struggling Alone

Douglas Farrow Selma Revisited

Jakub Grygiel A Pro-Life and Pro-Family U.S. Foreign Aid Strategy

Robert A. J. Gagnon The Gospel of Jesus on Sexual Binaries

Martin Gramling No Country for Christendom

Anna Sutherland Being Gay at Liberty University 
 and Elsewhere

David T. Koyzis Millennial Religion and the Sovereign Self

Carl R. Trueman McClay, Marcuse, and My Grandfather

Ron Belgau I Till We Have Faces

Virginia Aabram The Pitfalls of Making America “Hot” Again

Wesley J. Smith A Case of Suicide Tourism in Oregon?

Wesley J. Smith “Christian” Eugenics

Wesley J. Smith “Pregnant Man” Isn’t a Man

Carl R. Trueman Protestants Need Virtue Ethics

Wesley J. Smith New Zealand Demonstrates Peril of Rationing to Politically Weak

Wesley J. Smith Biological Males to be Allowed to Compete in Ladies Golf Tournaments

Wesley J. Smith Human Experimentation the Real Issue in Stopping “Transsexual” Boy’s Puberty

Wesley J. Smith “Queer Bioethics” Another Sign That Bioethics Not Authoritative

Wesley J. Smith CA to Supercede Parental Mental Health Decisions About Gay Children?

Tom Gilson Disgusta State University to Professor: Change Your Beliefs or Get Out!

R. R. Reno The Dilemma Facing Social Conservatives

Carl R. Trueman A Comedy of Moral Errors

Mary Hierholzer End-of-Year Honor for Gordon Antagonist

R. R. Reno A Politics of Denunciation

Matthew Schmitz A New Naming System

Editors First Links — 5.8.15

Carl R. Trueman Marginal Hope in Hard Times

Carl R. Trueman Time to Address the Issue of Hatesport

Editors First Links — 9.24.15

Carl R. Trueman Not So Sanguine

R. R. Reno Eliot and Liberalism

Robert A. J. Gagnon The Gospel of Jesus on Sexual Binaries

Douglas Farrow The Unraveling of Law

Carl R. Trueman Culture, Anti-Culture, and Nostalgia

R. R. Reno Why I’m Anti-Anti-Trump

Carl R. Trueman Confident Pluralism Indeed

Peter J. Leithart Boomer Bust

Carl R. Trueman Trouble in Bakersfield

Br. Michael Baggot Dressing for Others

Peter J. Leithart Is Nationalism Racist?

Peter J. Leithart Referees, Players, and Religious Liberty

The Editors Against Gender

Carl R. Trueman We Need to Win the Aesthetic, Not the Argument

Matthew J. Franck John Podesta, Son of the Church

Matthew Kacsmaryk Defending Conscience Rights at Hacksaw Ridge and in the HHS Cases

Carl R. Trueman A Tale of Two Marxisms

Alexi Sargeant Titles We Didn’t Choose — December 2016

Carl R. Trueman A Merry Pascalian Christmas!

Robert Barron Francis in Full

Robert P. George Public Schools and the Moral Neutrality Myth

R. R. Reno While We’re At It

Robert P. George Can Progressives Get Behind Parental Rights for All?

John Bursch How Obergefell Harmed Children

Bethel McGrew Out of the Wilderness

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