WorldNetDaily writer Bob Unruh’s hostility toward transgender people continued in an April 7 article:
A new study published in the peer-reviewed Acta Paediatrica, a pediatric journal, has delivered a stunning blow to the ideology of transgender activists whose main points include that chemicals or body-mutilating surgeries are needed or else the patient assuredly will seek suicide.
In fact, the study reveals, that, “In some individuals, medical GR (gender reassignment) appears to be linked to deterioration in mental health. Subsequent to medical GR, psychiatric treatment needs appear to increase.”
A report at the Washington Stand confirmed the news as “major damage to the myth that gender reassignment procedures are ‘medically necessary’ for the mental health of young people confused about their bodies.”
Transgender ideology, of course, defies science, in that being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level and does not change, no matter the chemicals or mutilating surgeries used.
Unruh didn’t tell the full story, which includes the fact that the lead researcher has “extensive ties to at least one anti-LGBTQ+ hate group and a history of anti-trans political advocacy,” adding:
However, a closer examination reveals the study to be fatally flawed: it does not actually measure what it claims to measure, its headline finding is a massive artifact of surveillance bias, the clinics practices were abusive, and it operates within a system where its findings were essentially baked in from the start—regardless of what the actual mental health impacts of gender-affirming care might be.
[…]That the current study landed in Acta Paediatrica, a journal with an impact factor of just 2.1—far below top-tier pediatrics journals like JAMA Pediatrics or Pediatrics—suggests it may not have survived scrutiny at more rigorous outlets.
Unruh wrote in an April 8 article:
It’s going to cost California some $4.5 million to lose a legal fight over its agenda to “transition” children in the state’s schools secretly.
It was none other than the U.S. Supreme Court that closed down that plan.
And now a court order from U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, of the Southern District in California, has granted a request from the Thomas More Society for $4.52 million in legal fees.
That law firm represented the two public school teachers in the Mirabelli v. Bonta case.
[…]The case follows litigation that began in 2023 over California’s agenda to have public school staff members transition children in schools into the transgender lifestyle choice, and then conceal those actions from parents.
The lawsuit challenged guidance critics describe as “gender secrecy” policies, which allow school officials to withhold information from parents about a student’s request to change names, pronouns or other gender-related identifiers at school, the report said.
Of course, no school is deliberately trying to “secretly” transition children, which Unruh mistakenly describes as a “lifestyle choice.” Such actions are designed to protect children from parents who refuse to accept their child becoming transgender and try to punish or harm them for doing so.
Still, Unruh continued to push that faulty argument in an April 23 article:
A court has ruled that the state of Washington likely is pushing an unconstitutional mandatory social “transition” agenda onto foster children, and the families who volunteer to take care of them.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge David G. Estudillo means a lawsuit brought on behalf of Shane and Jennifer DeGross will continue.
“When children are sleeping on cots in child-welfare offices for lack of loving homes, states like Washington should be doing everything they can to bring in more qualified foster parents,” said Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse, an ADF lawyer. “But Washington state is putting its own ideological agenda ahead of children’s needs, even though a federal court already enjoined a similarly unconstitutional policy in 2021. Washington should take the hint: it needs to end its unconstitutional and discriminatory policy.”
A report from LifeNews said the issue is that the state was demanding that foster parents work to socially “transition” foster children if those children claim to be transgender.
The ruling is that that likely violates the First Amendment.
The fight erupted because biased state officials in Washington refused to issue a standard foster care license to the DeGross family because of their religious objections to transgenderism, and socially or medically “transitioning” children.
Unruh didn’t explain what religion should be allowed to hate transgender people. The same day, Unruh huffed:
The Trump administration has facilitated the rescue of a child allegedly kidnapped by a transgender parent by dispatching a jet to Cuba to pick up the 10-year-old, who already had been located there by Cuba authorities helping in the operation.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Utah confirmed that there also are two suspects in custody as a result of the operation, including the young boy’s father, who identifies as a woman, and has been thought to be grooming the boy for transgenderism.
“Rose Inessa-Ethington aka Eri Ethington, 42, and Blue Inessa-Ethington, aka Carly Ann Crosby, 32, both of Cache County, Utah, were deported from Cuba on Monday with the assistance of the FBI. Upon landing in the United States, the two defendants appeared in court for an arraignment in Richmond, Virginia, and will be transported to the District of Utah at a later date for the remainder of their court case at the Orrin G. Hatch United States District Courthouse in downtown Salt Lake City,” federal authorities said.
The family feared the father, Eri Ethington, was taking his son to Cuba for “gender reassignment surgery,” authorities said.
The suspects are accused of allegedly skipping out on a planned camping trip to Canada with a shared custody child and instead taking the 10-year-old to Havana, Cuba, without the biological mother’s knowledge or court approval.
Again, Unruh only told one side of this story — the one that conforms to his anti-trans biases — and made no effort to tell the other side, which any responsible journalist would do.