Editing Andrew Sullivan (section)

==== Transgender issues ====
In 2007, Sullivan said he was "no big supporter" of the [[Employment Non-Discrimination Act]], arguing that it would "not make much of a difference." He said the "gay rights establishment" was making a tactical error by insisting on protections for [[gender identity]], as he believed it would be easier to pass the bill without [[transgender]] people.<ref>{{cite web|title=Andrew Sullivan Supports Barney Frank / Queerty|date=12 October 2007|url=http://www.queerty.com/andrew-sullivan-supports-barney-frank-20071012/|access-date=9 March 2009|website=[[Queerty]]|archive-date=15 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115102041/http://www.queerty.com/andrew-sullivan-supports-barney-frank-20071012/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In a September 2019 ''[[Intelligencer (website)|Intelligencer]]'' column, Sullivan expressed concern that gender-nonconforming children (especially those who are likely one day to come out as gay) might be encouraged to believe that they are transgender when they are not.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sullivan|first=Andrew|date=2019-09-20|title=Andrew Sullivan: When the Ideologues Come for the Kids|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/andrew-sullivan-when-the-ideologues-come-for-the-kids.html|access-date=2021-07-29|website=[[Intelligencer (website)|Intelligencer]]|language=en-us|archive-date=29 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729201749/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/andrew-sullivan-when-the-ideologues-come-for-the-kids.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In November 2019, Sullivan wrote another ''[[Intelligencer (website)|Intelligencer]]'' column on young women who, in their teens, had begun to transition to live as men but later [[detransition]]ed. In that article, he discussed the [[PLOS One#Rapid onset gender dysphoria controversy|controversy]] over a 2018 journal article by Lisa Littman that proposed a socially mediated subtype of gender dysphoria that Littman had termed "[[rapid onset gender dysphoria]]".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/andrew-sullivan-hard-questions-gender-transitions-for-young.html|title=Andrew Sullivan: The Hard Questions About Young People and Gender Transitions|last=Sullivan|first=Andrew|date=2019-11-01|website=[[Intelligencer (website)|Intelligencer]]|language=en-us|access-date=2019-11-04|archive-date=3 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240903205014/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/andrew-sullivan-hard-questions-gender-transitions-for-young.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 2021, he said it should be illegal for doctors to initiate [[Transgender hormone therapy|cross-sex hormones]] for children under 16 or [[sex reassignment surgery]] for children under 18.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sullivan|first=Andrew|date=9 April 2021|title=A Truce Proposal in the Trans Wars|url=https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/a-truce-proposal-in-the-trans-wars-c49|access-date=29 July 2021|website=[[Substack]]|archive-date=29 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729201751/https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/a-truce-proposal-in-the-trans-wars-c49|url-status=live}}</ref>