Our Media Commit the Sin of Omission Regarding Youth Transgender Issues – Reality Emerges in BritainBy Brad Slager
September 13, 2023
This summer in Great Britain, some significant changes to that country’s medical approach to transgender surgeries and treatments took place. Based on medical studies, new data arrived that basically shook the foundations of transgender care, and it led to deeply serious alterations of the practice in that country. This should be an area of extreme focus, but instead, we have been met largely with radio silence as the Biden administration pushes forward with an accelerated transgender agenda.
The ongoing, ever-present pressure for Americans to adopt a blanket acceptance of the physical transitioning of pre-teens has been a case of propaganda over propriety. Most would agree that the issue of drastic surgical alterations to the physiology of developing youths should be a cautious and well-researched endeavor. Instead, we have seen our government and the compliant press rushing headlong into the matter. Those calling for caution or suggesting alternative avenues for these cases frequently come under attack as being transphobic and wanting to violate the rights of others.
Gradually, we are seeing signs of pragmatic thought seeping into the discourse on this topic. Brandon Morse recently covered how Washington University in St. Louis was halting the administration of puberty blockers to transitioning youths. Broader than that was Denmark announcing it was pulling back from its policies of transitioning children through surgery and hormone therapies. Yet this news was not delivered energetically in our news outlets. Our media complex is negligent in providing what they perceive to be contradictory details on matters as grave as the health and well-being of children; the press is rather defiant in delivering one side in a favoritism display.
That brings us to England, where significant changes came about but were lightly reported on here. In June, the country curtailed its practice of administering puberty blockers to minors. Then, in a more significant move, the country shuttered its only gender-transitioning clinic set up for minors. These stories were granted slight exposure, and what little there was included slanted coverage. In the New York Times story, it implies this closure was done as an operational need.
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Source:
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2023/09/13/our-media-commit-the-sin-of-omission-regarding-youth-transgender-issues-reality-emerges-in-britain-n2163767
