Homosexuality is not the only non-heterosexual behavior WorldNetDaily loves to freak out over. It’s not terribly fond of transsexuals either.
An April 6 WND article by Bob Unruh misportrays a proposed Maryland law would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity as leading to “coed showers” and “protecting cross-dressing possible sex offenders who gain access to women’s locker rooms by alleging they are ‘transgendered.'” Unruh generously promotes these misleading claims from right-wing organizations but made no apparent effort to allow anyone to respond to them.
Unruh keeps up the freak-out mode in an April 8 WND article over a new policy at Chicago’s Cook County Jail that assigns men and women to cells based on their perceived gender. This story, unlike his other one, is surprisingly balanced; Unruh even talked to a jail official who pointed out that one detainee was a transgendered male who “had been through some surgical procedures already and self-identified as a woman,” and that her behavior was improving because she was receiving counseling.
So Unruh is capable of writing a balanced story. Why doesn’t he do it more often?