The Media Research Center’s freakout over Sarah McBride becoming the first transgender member of Congress continued when she officially took office. Mary Clare Waldron whined that McBride wasn’t denigrated in the news in a Jan. 4 post:
As a new Congress is sworn in, the liberal media fall into a classic pattern of finding new far-left stars. In this case, Friday’s CBS Mornings fawned over Sarah McBride, Delaware’s new (and only) House representative. McBride’s claim to fame? Well, it’s being the first openly transgender member of the U.S. House.
Unsurprisingly, it also gave CBS a chance to vent underlying criticisms of the Republican bathroom policies.
Also unsurprisingly, many of these new stars are sent into orbit by the press, regardless of their importance within the House, as icons for liberal policy prerogatives.
McBride, speaking to January 6 correspondent Scott MacFarlane, was painted as almost a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-type even though McBride “got her start working for then-State Attorney General Beau Biden, the President’s late son.”
McBride’s trans-man husband passed away in 2014 from a brief bout with cancer, which McBride said was an inspiration: “I’ve lived the American healthcare system. I have become deeply passionate about health care policy, housing policy, and policy around our care economy.”
As the interview continued, CBS’s MacFarlane focused on the historic nature of the candidate, and its contrast with the Republican Party and concerns raised by Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC): “When she first arrived in Washington, days after the election, for orientation, she faced an abrupt reality.”
Mace has expressed her concern regarding the use of bathrooms and one’s biological sex, and pushed a ban on such activity within the Capitol. As current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson supports such legislation, McBride embodied the media’s pawn for potential sympathy on issues that in reality have yet to impact a major election.
Waldron then complained that McBride would likely become a “symbol for transgenderism” — as if the MRC wasn’t doing the same exact thing:
With the question of the continuation of either pro or anti-transgender policies occurring in the next year, McBride will no doubt be a symbol for transgenderism, which makes up less than half a percent of the population of Delaware as well as the entire country.
Paint it as they may, CBS seemed to use the significance of one representative as a pawn for not only the glorification of the Democratic political party, and if McBride doesn’t pan out, there will be a new one in the 2026 midterms.
Justine Brooke Murray was filled with transphobic hate for McBride in a misgendering-laden Jan. 15 post:
America’s first gender-deluded congressman apparently believes it’s his job as a public representative to make his sexual dysphoria the problem of impressionable young children.
A viral video shows “transgender” Rep. Tim “Sarah” McBride (D-Del.) telling elementary school kids it’s “society’s” fault that people considered him a boy when he “knew” he was “really a girl.”
Murray revived her employer’s longtime hatred of a reality-show transgender person:
In a classroom reading event sponsored by the so-called “Human Rights Campaign,” children circled McBride prepared for a session of sexual confusion. The congressman proceeded to open the picture book, I Am Jazz, a story that celebrates a Kindergartner who was castrated with the help of his parents because he wanted to be a girl.
“I have a girl brain, but a boy body,” he began. (Wrong. His brain still has XY chromosomes.)
“This is called ‘Transgender.’ I was born this way,” the book of lies continued.
(No. It’s called Gender Dysphoria. Nobody is born “trans.”)
But the propaganda didn’t stop there.“Then, one amazing day, everything changed. Mom and Dad took me to a new doctor who asked me lots and lots of questions. Afterward, the doctor spoke to my parents and I, and I heard the word ‘transgender’ for the very first time,” the book described.
McBride continued to recite Jazz, who praised his parents for letting him “wear girl clothes to school and grow my hair long.”
Jazz, a real-life TLC personality, is now a neutered adult who suffers from depression.
Brad Wilmouth raged in a Feb. 2 post that non-right-wing people on TV don’t obsessively hate transgender people like he does:
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s new policy against transgenders serving in the military, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell gave an unchallenged forum to Delaware U.S. Representative Sarah McBride to trash Republicans for acting on the issue.
[…]After the Delaware Representative complained about the move to bar transgenders, Mitchell cued up her liberal guest to question the motives of Republicans: “Why do you think the DEI policies and also the issue of transgender people have been so targeted in these first opening days? And certainly this is something the President campaigned on.”
[…]McBride repeated a frequent talking point on the left that Republicans have an ulterior motive in highlighting transgender issues:
[…]Without giving any pushback, Mitchell then followed up by asking about Trump’s push to only recognize two genders on legal documents.
Wilmouth didn’t explain what kind of “pushback” Mitchell should have offered, let alone his preferred level of transphobia.