Even without longtime transphobe Tierin-Rose Mandelburg, the Media Research Center has been keeping up its irrational hatred of transgender people this year. Tim Graham began things with a Jan. 5 post whining that the Washington Post “dropped a sugar bomb on trans activist/actress Laverne Cox as she stepped away from being a red-carpet interviewer for the E! network,” huffing: “In my house, we have watched hours of Cox prattling on, and it seemed like a LGBTQ quota exercise. But the Post didn’t allow an alternative viewpoint.” And what “alternative viewpoint” is Graham demanding? That transgender people are evil and should be removed from society?
Clay Waters grumbled in a Jan. 11 post that it was pointed out that transgender Biden administration official Rachel Levine faced anti-trans attacks:
Transgender Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary under Biden, is a biological man who makes a not-terribly convincing woman. But even after an election where such reality denial on the left was firmly rejected by voters, the tax-funded network National Public Radio continues to play along.
As Trump’s second inauguration looms, NPR performed an “exit interview” with Levine on the January 6 Morning Edition, and the headline delivered the story’s warped sensibility, turning the Biden-installed trans activist into a passive victim: “Dr. Rachel Levine focused on her job at HHS. Still. anti-trans politics followed her.”
NPR health policy correspondent Selena Simmons-Duffin sympathized a with Levine’s view that children should be encouraged to undergo, under the benign phrase “gender-affirming care,” medical procedures to align themselves with their preferred sex.
Waters offered no evidence that Levine ever demanded that every child be forced to undergo gender-affirming care.
Comedy cop Alex Christy lamented in a Jan. 16 post that “The Daily Show” had on “transgender comedian ALOK,” who said that “debating transgenderism is dumb because life is meaningless and we’re all going to ‘[bleep] die.’” Waters returned to rage in a Jan. 27 post:
Blithely tossing aside biological reality for ideological ends, Andrew DeMillo, John Hanna, and Nadia Lathan of Associated Press wrote from Topeka: “Republican-led states emboldened to continue rolling back trans rights as Democrats struggle with response.”
AP absolutely mangled the political controversy over “transgender rights,” and assumed with no scientific evidence that a high number of children are “trans” (how is that diagnosis made?). AP used all the LGBTQIA-approved lingo: the Orwellian term “gender-affirming” appeared nine times.
[…]The supposedly objective AP repeatedly bowed to the teenage transitioning cult by parroting the jargon of activists, pretending there’s an officially accepted definition of “transgender girls” besides what a troubled boy might be going through at a particular time of their life.
[…]While AP used “gender-affirming” nine times, “parents” only appeared once….and only to support “gender-affirming treatments” for kids. The idea that parental rights and “trans rights” are in conflict never emerges. Parental rights aren’t even on their mental map.
Sounds like Waters is parroting the jargon of transphobes. Jorge Bonilla asserted in a Jan. 29 post that not hating transgender people like he does makes you a “leftwing indoctrinator”:
Spanish-language news media often bill present themselves as advocates for the community that relies on them for news coverage in a language that they understand- often the ONLY language they understand. But time and time again, they prove themselves to be leftwing indoctrinators working against the community they purport to serve.
Case in point: network news reaction to the executive order signed by President Donald Trump banning federal funding for child gender transitions:
[…]As we’ve explained in the past, Spanish-language media’s business model compels them to a default state of hard leftism. Because they rely on unrestricted immigration in order to replenish their viewer base, they often display a natural leftward bias towards those politicians and parties most likely to grant them immigration relief- the Democrats. As a result they not only champion immigration, but every other policy position within the leftwing pupu platter- no matter how ridiculous or out of the mainstream.
This is how we end up with Telemundo and Univision newscasts (the Despierta América morning show) decrying the executive order as if it were a grievous injury against the community, and lamenting the fact that kids won’t get carved up in service of Moloch or permanently frozen into a hormonal limbo.
The MRC has previously maliciously attacked women who have abortions as serving Moloch.
In a Feb. 6 post complaining that “MSNBC host Katy Tur falsely claimed the number [of transgender people playing sports] is “just so infinitesimally small, and you’re just talking about a handful of kids,” Christy cited an anti-trans website called HeCheated (which falsely begins, “A boy pretends to be a girl”) to insist the number is much higher. the same day, Justine Brooke Murray cheered “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling’s transphobia, which she claims makes her “one of the few liberal women’s rights advocates who actually remain true to their preaching and can put their political affiliations aside when it comes to common sense.”
A Feb. 7 post by Waters was upset that NPR pointed out that “some on the right have been trying to paint [a picture] about trans people as terrorists or mentally unwell,” to which he sneered, “One only has to peek at the “trans” debate on X or TikTok or especially left-leaning BlueSky to realize how many online trans-activists qualify as unwell,” adding that reporting this truth — which he does not dispute — is “still another reason” to defund NPR.
Christy spent a Feb. 8 post being mad at an MSNBC host for standing up for transgender people:
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes took his book tour to HBO and Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, where he urged Democrats to double down on telling Republicans to “just stay the fuck out of their business” when it comes to parents wanting to give their children gender-altering “health care.”
[…]The first example he reached for was, “If some father and mother have health care for their kid lined up, who is trans, just stay the fuck out of their business. Like, and let them make that decision. That’s their decision to make. You don’t have to make that for your family. I’m not going to tell you what to do with your family.”
Maher pushed back, “I mean, but the argument is whether the child should make the decision.”
Hayes strained credibility to add, “But the child is never making the decision. The parents are always making the decision. Parents consent to medical care.”
Eventually, Maher would add, “They would say it’s disfiguring a child.”
Hayes was unmoved, “I think they should mind their business; I really do. I think they should mind their business, and I think that’s true about a lot of things.”
Brad Wilmouth huffed in a Feb. 15 post:
On Friday afternoon, CNN hosts Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar devoted a segment to letting gay-rights activist and fundraiser Stacy Lentz complain about the Donald Trump administration removing the word “transgender” from gay-related government websites. There was a lot of talk about getting “erased,” when CNN airs one-sided segments that erase the conservative side of the debate.
Wilmouth did not explain what the “conservative side” defending censorship of the existence of transgender people is. He also made no mention of one-sided anti-trans segment on Fox News that erase opposing views.