Edit: My mistake. I was thrown off by some of the criticisms stating or implying that the Buttigiegs had used a surrogate when in reality they adopted. I will keep my comment up but with that caveat.

My immediate impression is that the reaction is more driven by Pete and Chasten being two men than gay men specifically though I wouldn’t go so far as to say that them being gay plays no role whatsoever in this attitude. I do think many radfems have some issues of homophobia and lesbophobia that they seem blind to in part because they’ve become so hypersensitive to any perceived slight/erasure of women. I am trying to distance myself from being hypersensitive myself. A lot of them have been vocal supporters of gay rights for reasons other than respect for the existence of homosexuality and view gay men as traitors and actual homosexual females as disposable/tools. It’s a weird dynamic.

But no, it does not help anyone when institutions like Pink News promote surrogacy as a gay rights issue, which I absolutely do not think it should be. I do think surrogacy is a particularly touchy and fraught subject that is even more so in the current political climate.