The Log Cabin Republicans announced Friday that they will no longer advocate for transgender issues – declaring itself to be an “LGB” organization.

The influential group – the nation’s largest GOP organization dedicated to representing lesbian, gay and bisexual conservatives and allies – voted to scrap the “T,” after more than a decade of support for transgender issues.

They did so over the trans rights movement’s “focus on minors,” the head of the Log Cabin Republicans explained. 

“At the time, we did not believe that we would find ourselves where we are today,” Ross Hemminger, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, wrote in an op-ed for Townhall, announcing the mission shift. 

“The transgender movement has ceased focusing on adults at all — nearly all of their efforts and those of their aligned special interest groups focus on minors,” Hemminger said of what’s taken place since the 2015 decision to champion transgender issues. “They push schools to teach radical gender ideology; they want biological men in women’s sports regardless of the consequences; perhaps most offensively, they support gender reassignment treatments for minors, often without the knowledge or consent of the parents, knowing full well these treatments are mostly irreversible.” 

Hemminger lamented that this “new era of gender identity politics is not the movement we supported and fought for,” and he blamed it for waning public interest in backing gay and lesbian issues. 

“Their view of the gay community is based on today’s radical transgender activists with their unnecessary and discomfiting focus on America’s youth,” he said. 

To address the issue, the Log Cabin Republicans’ board of directors has voted to “concentrate specifically on issues of sexual orientation and conservative values — in other words, we are an LGB advocacy organization.” 

Specifically, the Log Cabin Republicans intend to focus on issues concerning marriage, adoption, military service, equal treatment under the law and religious liberty.

“This decision reaffirms our core mission,” Hemminger said. “We have fought for the right to marry who we love, serve our country openly and enjoy the same rights afforded to all Americans.

“Returning to our roots means recommitting ourselves to the principles and disciplined advocacy that got us this far.”

The change will not alter the Log Cabin Republicans’ membership policy, which remains open “to all conservatives.” 

“We were founded on principle, and we are moving forward with clarity, strength, and confidence,” Hemminger added. “When we remain focused on limited government, individual freedom, and equal protection under the law, we win.”

The Log Cabin Republicans endorsed and actively supported President Trump in the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, after initially declining to back him in 2016. 

Trump has been outspoken in opposing sex changes for minors, allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports and has sought to ban transgender service members from the military.