The Media Research Center’s year of transphobia continued on, though chief transphobe Tierin-Rose Mandelburg left mid-year. Tim Graham whined about a transgender minister in an Oct. 6 post:
On CBS Mornings, contributor Lisa Ling (a former cast member of The View) self-identifies as a “die-hard feminist,” which CBS thinks is a great reason to assign her stories on “The State of Spirituality.” In September, Ling championed the notion of female priests in the Catholic Church, and on Thursday, Ling promoted a “transgender man” who’s a pastor in Hollywood for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Co-host Tony Dokoupil set the tone in a tease: “Coming up, Lisa Ling talks spirituality with a pastor trying to expand inclusivity in the Christian church.”
Dokoupil later introduced the segment: “Many traditional religions are trying to make progress toward being more inclusive of the LGBTQ+ community. But for some groups, it’s been a very slow journey on that front. Today, Lisa introduces us to a pastor in California who wouldn’t be welcome to preach in many American churches.”
[…]Those troglodytes who “still” hold to what the Bible teaches were not interviewed for this story. But they are brought up as hateful people who believe the Bible isn’t outdated.
Graham went on to whine that conservatives were (accurately) portrayed as hateful transphobes:
The God of the Bible wasn’t “compassionate” or “inclusive.” But God has apparently become wiser and more compassionate for our modern times, because Stever claims God encouraged his “transition.”
[…]The opponent isn’t conservative views, it’s just “hate,” whether it’s online messages or in-person vandalism. Ling concluded: “Pastor Drew has had a pride flag hanging outside of Hope Lutheran. And shortly after we filmed there, someone ripped down the flag and damaged it. The flag, though, is back up. And he told us he is, quote, “not deterred by one person’s small worldview.” Or, as Ling confessed, “still the majority of Christians.”
We assume Graham approved of that pride flag being ripped down.
The same day, Brad Wilmouth groused that a CNN interviewer failed to hate a transgender politician in Tennessee. When thte host pointed out that “more than 220 laws have been introduced this year, most — a lot of them specifically targeting transgender people,” Wilmouth huffed: “Any opposition to LGBTQ is ‘targeting.'” He offered no evidence that it isn’t.
Mandelburg’s replacement on the transphobia front, Justine Brooke Murray, spewed hate at a child in an Oct. 17 post:
CBS is turning more Orwellian by the day.
Last month, the network reprimanded their own journalist for being a journalist. This week, they’re re-defining gender.
To celebrate “Trans Empowerment Month,” “CBS Mornings” invited leaders of the “support” group, “Stand with Trans” on their show to air their gender delusions.
The group’s founder is a mother who transitioned her 13-year-old biological daughter. Joining her on the panel was her “non-binary” “trans-empowerment month program coordinator.”
The program’s trio of hosts began their segment by asking the mother, Roz Keith, “what” she was “looking for back then” in 2013, when her daughter “came out as transgender.”
“Some validation for me as a parent,” admitted Keith. That’s where the trouble always begins.
To “validate” herself, she therefore validated her daughter’s identity crisis.
After “hitting a brick wall” calling up medical professionals who all thought she was crazy, Keith said she had finally found a “doctor” who agreed to Frankenstein her daughter, what CBS host Vladimir Duthiers described as “gender affirming care.”
Murray then huffed that “nonbinary trans person” Dubbs Weinblatt was allowed to have an opinion and speak her truth:
She complained she grew up in the 1980’s where there were “no resources,” meaning adults weren’t forced yet to go along with the delusions of the mentally ill.
Now, 40 years later, Weinblatt’s distortion of reality landed her a prime TV spot with three virtue-signaling hosts tripping over themselves to praise her.
Nodding along was co-host Tony Dokoupil, fresh out of the re-education session CBS recently forced him to attend. It seems he learned his lesson not to ask any questions, after the network punished him for questioning a Hamas supporter in September.
Isn’t it also a sign of delusion when you assume that anyone who doesn’t adhere to your narrow and dogmatic political views is mentally ill? And that reporting the news is “Orwellian”?
Alex Christy spent an Oct. 18 post denying that right-wing transphobia exists, let alone that it may have harmful real-world consequences:
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show took its outrage at Republicans to another level on Thursday as it welcomed Laverne Cox to the show to rant at the GOP and “its transphobia,” which included the accusation that the party’s $65 million ad campaign is contributing to transgender people committing suicide.
After a clip of a Georgia man claiming he had “no hard data” on how many males are trying to compete in female sports, Cox claimed, “Hmm. No hard data? Oh, that’s okay, hon, I understand. I’m sure that not having anything hard is something you’re used to.”
There are real headlines from the real world documenting this issue. Networks like MSNBC even promote it as a positive thing. Speaking of MSNBC, Cox then set up a montage, “And as the election gets closer, the Republican Party is going all in on its transphobia.”
In the first clip, Ayman Mohyeldin reported, “Since the beginning of August, Republicans have spent more than $65 million on ads focusing on transgender issues in over a dozen states.”
The Daily Show then played snippets of five GOP ads, the last of which was a Trump ad where the narrator claims “Kamala’s for they/them. President Trump is for you.”
After it was pointed out that Republicans spent millions of dollars on anti-trans ads, Christy huffed:
Over the past few months there has been a lot of discussion about inflammatory rhetoric, but for the left-wing media, claiming pro-lifers are going to kill women or Republicans are responsible for transgender suicides is just another talking point. The answers to when life begins or what constitutes womanhood doesn’t matter to them.
Why does Christy assume that anyone who doesn’t hate transgender people as viciously as he does must be “left-wing”? And why is Christy portraying transphobic hate as a positive thing?
Christy spent a Nov. 13 post insisting that being transgender is a “ideology”:
Comedian Wanda Sykes traveled to ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday to demand that Donald Trump and Republicans “shut up” and “relax” about transgender ideology being pushed on children.
Kimmel set the table by wondering, “Of all the things Trump, like, latched on to and used during this campaign, which puzzled you? What thing puzzled you the most? I don’t even necessarily want to call them issues.”
After Sykes called out Trump’s lie that “your son goes to school as a boy, comes home a girl” and argued that it was more about wearing a “man bun,” Christy huffed: “No, it’s not just a man bun, it is several thousand school districts have a policy of hiding information from parents about how their child is identifying and scientists seeking to politicize their studies.” He refused to admit that Trump was lying.
Christy concluded with more whining: “Sykes and Kimmel have apparently learned nothing from the election. The American people do not want more left-wing culture warring and racial identity politics, but some people will never learn.” Christy wouldn’t say whether right-wing culture warring and racial identity politics are covered.
Graham used his Nov. 20 column to hype the alleged dire threat of transgender athletes by citing … an event from two years ago:
Last month, ABC anchor Martha Raddatz was mocked by J.D. Vance when she tried to minimize the threat of gangs in Colorado taking over apartment buildings by force. “The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes,” she said. It’s too bad for you if you lived in one of those buildings. Vance asked “Do you hear yourself?”
That’s echoing now on biological males invading women’s sports. On his HBO soapbox Last Week Tonight, British comedian/activist John Oliver expressed disgust that Kamala Harris couldn’t rebut Donald Trump on this.
“There are vanishingly few trans girls competing in high schools anywhere,” Oliver claimed. “Even if there were more, trans kids, like all kids, vary in athletic ability and there is no evidence they pose any threat to safety or fairness.”
Out came the “no evidence” argument, which is simply overstated. You can easily find evidence, like 17-year-old volleyball player Payton McNabb getting injured in the head and neck and suffering partial paralysis after getting spiked in the face by a man in 2022. But Oliver dismissed her and her side. “It’s very weird for you to be so focused on the subject,” he said as he focused on the subject.
Graham then raged that MSNBC’s Jen Psaki also brought up the issue:
Psaki mocked the red states who passed bans on boys in girls’ sports since they could only find one in Utah and one in South Dakota. She may have a point, since it’s in blue states where this is all the rage, and the blue states wouldn’t dare offend the LGBTQ forces. The social contagion of transgenderism is at odds with the notion that the number is “vanishingly few.’
Oliver and Psaki are mad that this was a losing issue for Democrats. A survey from the University of Chicago found that 65% of Americans said transgender athletes should never or rarely be allowed to compete in sports leagues that don’t match their biological sex. The election seems to have underlined it.
“Trump and the Republicans have managed to amplify their bad-faith attacks to the point where people do have concerns, as misguided and misinformed though those concerns may be,” Psaki claimed. On the Left, any challenge to transgender orthodoxy is considered a “bad faith attack.” You’re “misinformed” if you think this issue isn’t insignificant. Dissent equals misinformation.
But doesn’t Graham assume that anyone who’s not on board with his right-wing narrratives is spreading “misinformation”? Graham concluded by invoking his “libertine left” invention:
Psaki described it as a fight between “manufactured panic” on the right versus “actual facts” on the left. But this professional Democrat failed to consider the actual fact that biological males simply cannot “become” girls in athletics. They have a pronounced physical advantage.
The libertine left creates a “manufactured panic” that laws against transgender crossover into women’s sports is “targeting” people and harming their mental health to the point of suicide.
Consider the actual fact that nearly 900 biological females were robbed of medals in sports competing against transgender athletes, according to a United Nations study titled “Violence against women and girls in sports.” Concerns about young women’s fairness and safety cannot be mocked away by comedians and cable TV hosts.
As if Graham and his fellow right-wingers haven’t been manufacturing transphobic panics for years.