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The trad to gender-queer pipeline

The trad to gender-queer pipeline

why did all my trad pals become non-binary?

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Stephen G. Adubato
Jun 15, 2025
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We had a great time discussing Foucault, Nietzsche, the genealogy of sexual orientation, and why Catholics ought to be more interested in critical theory with David Dudrick. Listen on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple.

When I first reverted to Catholicism, I spent waaaay too much time in Tumblr’s Catholic circles. Most of these Catholics were super trad; they knew everything about theology, gushed about TLM, and loved owning the libs. I ended up becoming friends with some of these Tumblr Caths IRL.

They nitpicked over very weird things. One TLM chick went on a Tumblr rampage about how the priest at TLM did not hold the Eucharist high enough during the consecration, and how this was a sign that the worldly spirit of modernism had infiltrated the TLM. Another girl only wore (cheap, ugly) floor-length skirts, and judged women who wore pants or short-shorts for “denigrating the imago Dei.” A guy who was “ex-gay” and went to Courage meetings told me he wasn’t allowed to wear skinny jeans because that was effeminate, and that he had to stop carrying hand lotion in his bag (despite having very ashy, chapped, pale white-boy hands) because that was also effeminate.

Within the next five years, TLM chick became a blue-haired non-binary, frumpy skirt gurl became a rainbow flag-toting, infographic posting lesbian, and the ex-gay boi…well, you can imagine. Why is it that most of my trad friends flipped and became big queers? Here are some the reasons:

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