WND’s Brown Has Freakouts Over Polyamory And (Of Course) Transgender People

As he has before, Michael Brown returned to obsessing about other people’s sex lives in his Jan. 26 column:

On Jan. 23, I posted on X, “Five days ago @MattWalshBlog wrote, ‘This is now the fourth article in a major media publication in the span of one week pushing “polyamory.”‘ Today, the @WSJ noted that ‘polyamory is having a moment.’ Perhaps this article that I wrote in 2012, called, ‘The Next Sexual Revolution Has Arrived,’ focusing on polyamory, deserves another read?”

That same day, I noticed an article written by Dennis Prager titled, “19 Years Ago, the Los Angeles Times Published a Column on Antisemitism on American Campuses.”

Prager noted that, “I recently came across is a column titled ‘When Young Jews Major in Antisemitism,’ published in 2005 in the Los Angeles Times. When I looked to see who wrote the column, I saw – to my surprise – that I did. I did not recall writing the piece. But it is very much worth reading today.”

He then reproduced his article in full, which gave serious pause for reflection.

He then reproduced “the full text of my 2012 article to give us a perspective on the rapid rise of polyamory in America and noted that in one of his books, “the term ‘polyamory’ occurred 28 times and ‘polyamorous’ occurred 10 times.” Yet he did not explain why he thinks what other people do with their private lives is any of their business.

Brown began his Feb. 2 column by fearmongering about children allegedly seized by the state in other countries, citing as one example where children of homeschooling parents in Germany were allegedly taken; he failed to mention the fact that homeschooling has always been illegal there). He then ramped up the transphobia and fearmongering:

Back in 2022, the Washington Examiner shared the heartbreaking story of Abby Martinez, “who tried to fight back when a Los Angeles school, county social workers, and an LGBT group sought to transition her confused 15-year-old daughter.

“But once Yaeli Martinez was moved into foster care and later injected with testosterone, the heartbroken mother could only watch helplessly as the girl spiraled into depression that ended when she stepped in front of an oncoming train.

“‘They killed my daughter,’ a tearful Martinez told the Washington Examiner. ‘They had to pick pieces of her off of the track.'”

Brown then dismissed the idea that there is another side of the story — specifically, that the child had suffered from depression for years — because the mother’s story advances his anti-LGBTQ narrative:

You might say, “But there were other factors involved in that story, and the government was looking out for the child’s best interest.”

The grieving mother would beg to differ, with every fiber of her being. And again, who empowered the state to make these kinds of decisions?

That’s why there’s such grave concern over a growing number of states – 11 as of June 2023 – declaring themselves sanctuary states for trans-identified minors.

“Come here,” they proclaim, “and get the medical care that you need, the care that all those states that are withholding from you. We’ll help you here, even without your parents’ consent.”

And what happens to a trans-identified minor child who makes his or her way to one of these sanctuary states seeking trans-related care, against their parents’ wishes? Does the sanctuary state now have legal authority over that child? Do the parents have a way to get their child back?

These are some of the very real, contemporary legal debates.

Brown also seems uninterested in exploring why Martinez’s child was put in foster care in the first place — perhaps because Martinez hates transgender people so much that she has no problem exploiting her child’s death to promote that hate. He then cited another case of anti-trans parents facing the consequences for hating their transitioning child:

A CFS caseworker came to speak with the teen and inspect the house where Jennifer claimed she drank toilet bowl cleaner and took painkillers in an attempt to take her own life, the outlet reported.

“The teen reportedly showed no related symptoms, and a test at the hospital showed she didn’t consume any toxins.

“But her hospital stay stretched to multiple days, in which staff there noted that Jennifer identified as male and wanted to be called Leo. The parents said they quickly but unsuccessfully objected.

“‘We were very clear to the emergency room staff as well as [CFS] that this goes against our values, morals and our religious beliefs,’ [mother] Krista Kolstad recalled to Reduxx, accusing the hospital of consistently undermining her and her husband’s authority.”

In reality, Kolstad’s insistence on running to right-wing media to spew anti-transgender narratives violated confidentiality orders; the judge in the case noted the “unlikelihood of self-reflection and self-accountability or repentance by either father or stepmother.” The parents also refused to permit the state to send the child to an out-of-state facility for treatment of suicidal thoughts, which tells us that they are putting politics ahead of their child’s well-being.

Brown served up more transphobia in his Feb. 5 column:

The title of this article is not meant to be sensationalistic, nor is it designed as salacious clickbait. Instead, it is a fair and accurate description of a growing (and sickening) phenomenon on TikTok: trans-identified adults telling children about sex-change surgery or simply encouraging these little ones to go fully trans. How can this be legal?

A couple of weeks ago, a colleague sent me a link to a video on Townhall carrying this caption: “Children are being exposed to sex change explainer videos on TikTok from woke trans activists. They claim these surgeries aren’t harmful – and are completely fine to show to children. What is going on?!”

This video, in turn, plays clips from some of these TikTok videos, and the contents are beyond disgusting.

Brown, of course, then went the salacious clickbait route anyway by ranting further about this:

Two years ago, I posted an article titled, “Is China Using TikTok to Control the Minds of Our Children?”

I wrote, “To give a shocking case in point, according to a recent video by Matt Walsh, ‘TikTok Is Making Mental Illness Trendy.'”

Now, TikTok is making irreversible genital mutilation trendy.

Should we be surprised?

Brown offered no evidence the the mere existence of videos makes something “trendy” — but he needs the clickbait, so he’s pushing that dubious association. His hate continued:

It’s hard not to feel outrage just reading these words, especially if you can relate firsthand to what this mother has experienced, and especially when you realize that some of the effects of these hormone treatments may be irreversible.

But to think that children are being encouraged to get sex-change surgery and that a boy might actually think that removing his testicles is no different than eating two cherries takes things even further.

I ask again: How can this be legal?

It’s not illegal for someone to make a video, dude. He went on to cite anti-transgender psychiatrist Paul McHugh without disclosing that that his views have been discredited, touting his claim that he’s “sleeping better at night” because of his right-wing activism. Brown concluded with more sensationalism:

Dr. McHugh’s same question can now be posed to those who run and oversee TikTok: What if you’re contributing directly to the irreversible mutilation of thousands of children? How will you sleep at night?

I would hate to be in their shoes of these social media influencers and their enablers on Judgment Day. God takes it personally when people hurt the children.

But until that Day, let us do what we can to protect our youngsters from these destructive influences while pushing back against the distribution of such videos to minors however we can.

We might just save some lives.

But gender-affirming care does, in fact, save lives. Apparently, Brown would rather see those people dead for the sin of not being heterosexual.