The LGBT-haters at WorldNetDaily do an interesting but of framing in an anonymously written June 27 article, suggesting that transgender people are “victims” of gender dysphoria, which they “suffer” from:
An organization that monitors the readiness of the U.S. military is opposing an amendment to a defense spending bill that would allow gender dysphoria victims in the ranks.
The military disallowed people who suffer gender dysphoria – defined clinically as persistent feelings of identification with another gender and discomfort with one’s own assigned gender – until President Obama changed the policy with an executive order. President Trump reversed the order, but courts have ruled in favor of military personnel with gender dysphoria.
In keeping with its history of journalistic bias, WND quotes only right-wing anti-gay groups attacking efforts to reverse Trump’s ban: Elaine Donnelly’s Center for Military Readiness and the Family Research Center, “whose leadership includes experts in military matters.” WND repeated unchallenged the FRC’s assertion that “People with gender dysphoria should be excluded because it’s a specific medical diagnosis, and ‘it is associated with significant mental health problems.'”
Such blatant bias is not the sort of thing that inspires confidence in the integrity of WND’s journalism or the idea that it deserves to live.