Jen Wieczner on LkedIn: The Meltdown of a Gay Bank

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The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal.

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‘THE MELTDOWN OF A GAY BANK’

“If you let me do what I know how to do, we will all be very, very rich and very, very gay, ” one of those workers said. Gaydar Knox, who liv Brooklyn, also started at Daylight 2021. -The CEO, Rob Curtis, wanted to pivot Daylight to LGBTQ+ fertily servic, or as he put : "Let’s get all the gays donatg sperm, and all the poor queer women beg surrogat, ” he wrote on Slack (I saw screenshots).

THE MELTDOWN OF A GAY BANK

The Meltdown of a Gay Bank. Gay men?

THE MELTDOWN OF A GAY BANK

Every year, Gallup releas a survey of how many Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. “Three out of 10 women unr the age of 25 nsir themselv to be gay or transgenr. Everyone will be eher gay or trans or nonnformg or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different optns there are.

” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic.

Bee of the fluence of Schorr put siarly Natnal Review: “To suggt that social suggtibily uld be playg a role the skyrocketg numbers of young girls’ exprsg their sire to bee mal, for example, is not of urse to say that gay and transgenr people would not exist whout the topics’ beg discsed the public square. ”This fear is based on an unrstandg of genr and sexualy as alarmgly agile, easily undone by a gay teacher or a trans TikTok fluencer.

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