Rest in Peace, Kevin Whitt: Ex-transgender, pro-family activist, and friend

A former "Drag Queen," he became a powerful truth-teller against the radical LGBT movement

An outstanding Texas MassResistance activist

October 8, 2026

Kevin Whitt was a phenomenal individual and an inspiration to people around the world.

by Arthur Schaper

[Note: An earlier version of this article appeared in Townhall.]

He suffered emotional, physical, and sexual abuse many times as a kid. His peers mocked and teased him in grade school because of his effeminate ways. In middle school, he came out as gay. He transitioned to female at 17, then joined his other queer friends and joined the gay and trans club scene. He dressed up and played a drag queen. Relying on internet ads, he engaged in prostitution with celebrities in sports, entertainment, and the government. He lived the LGBT lifestyle out and proud.

Photos of Kevin as a Drag Queen

Then one day in Florida, a dancer at a gay bar invited him to a church. He started going to church regularly, even while still in the lifestyle. He found Jesus, or rather Jesus found him. Then he got saved, transitioning from death to life; he then transitioned from homosexuality to health, from transgenderism to truth. He faced the demons that had robbed him of his childhood and marred his adulthood. Then he got busy fighting the destruction of children and the horrific lies of the LGBT cult.

His name was Kevin Whitt. He was my friend and fellow warrior in the crusade against the LGBT agenda. I had a chance to speak with him a week and a half before he died, while he was struggling through major complications following an experimental yet consistently successful surgery. He had been born with a congenital heart defect, and the latest surgery was supposed to help him breathe better, move better, and thus live better.

Then complications emerged, and he ended up succumbing to an infection.

This is a difficult stage of life for many my age. I am witnessing more friends and allies passing away. Neither school nor job training can prepare you for these difficult times.

Kevin Whitt was a flamboyant personality, a hardcore conservative not afraid to shout out the truth, call out the lies, and confront the evil where it emerged. He marched and ministered with the Changed Movement, a growing community of men and women who have left the LGBT lifestyle and minister to others while telling the truth about homosexuality and transgenderism. He spoke out against bans on so-called conversion therapy. He helped shut down Drag Queen Story Hour programs throughout his adopted state of Texas. (He was born in Benton, Arkansas.) His biggest interest was to protect children - not just to end the medical and surgical mutilation of children, but to end the social transitioning as well (i.e., the practice of confused or wretched parents dressing up their boys as little girls and vice versa). Such confusion is just as abusive, twisting and tormenting the mind of an already confused child who needs truth, not enabling.

Kevin evangelizing at "Gay Pride" in San Antonio in 2019.

Kevin Whitt was the best witness for convincing politicians and political groups to take a stand against this agenda. He had endured that lifestyle, and he lived reborn to tell the story. He withstood hate from both sides of the aisle, not just because he decided to turn away from the homosexual lifestyle and expose its decadence and destruction. Republican circles dismissed him or diminished him because he was outspoken, refusing to be silenced by the Republican political establishment.

Kevin Whitt (far left), Tracy Shannon (third from right) and other MassResistance activists outside of the Texas State House in 2021.

To this day, many pro-family conservatives don't want to have these discussions. They fear being labeled a bigot, hater, homophobe, transphobe - take your pick. It’s that fear which has allowed the rampant harm to children and society to proliferate.

Kevin refused to be quiet.

One of his closest confidants (and a friend of mine) was a fellow pro-family activist, Tracy Shannon. For five years, she served as the Texas director for international pro-family group MassResistance. For much of that time Kevin served as assistant Texas director. She and Kevin waged war against a repressive, destructive, tyrannical agenda that was targeting her home state of Texas. Starting in 2021, Tracy and her team fought to end the sex mutilation of minors, to codify a clear definition of sex as a biological fact in the Texas code, and to repeal recognition of same-sex marriage based on the corrupt Supreme Court opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges.

At the 2022 Texas Republican Party State Convention, Tracy Shannon (left) and Kevin Whitt give strong statements to the Texas GOP Platform Committee for keeping the anti-LGBT agenda language in the party platform.

Kevin had a lot of connections, more than I had ever imagined.

He was there every step of the way with Tracy and MassResistance. He testified about his own trials as a child before numerous legislative committees, and he rigorously demanded that lawmakers put the needs of children and the well-being of society first. Despite the attacks from the press, including the smears that he was a conspiracy theorist or a bigot, he soldiered on to do what was right.

As Texas MassResistance Assistant Director, Kevin Whitt addresses hundreds of GOP grassroots activists in front of Dallas City Hall in 2020.

During the 2020 election, Kevin was featured in two Michigan campaign ads (click here and here to see) to stop Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and Democrat US Senator Gary Peters from winning — both supported sex mutilation of minors and allowing biological boys to invade girls’ sports.

In October 2021, he started a nonprofit, the Whitt Project, and he invited me to attend his inaugural fundraising event. I got to meet Congressman Louie Gohmert and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz's pastor father, Rafael Cruz. It was an incredible event, listening to this once-damaged boy become a fiery activist determined to protect as many as possible from suffering what he went through. Kevin was definitely a people person, and that care for people drove him to fight for everything right in this world.

This is the cover that Kevin designed for his book.

His death is the first in recent memory in which I had the opportunity to say goodbye just before it was too late. Tracy and Kevin were planning many events after his surgery, convinced that he would tough out the complications and survive. They took no precautions, though, and friends and family visited him in the hospital before he left us.

His legacy will not be lost to this world, though. A year before his death, he completed a memoir about his life, trials, and restoration in Christ: God Saved the Queen. Production and distribution are pending, but I know it will be a great read.

I am sad to see him gone, but I know he’s in a better place, and he left this world a better place, too.

Kevin Whitt, Rest in Peace.
October 22, 1978 — September 25, 2026