Posted on 05/25/2021 5:48:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
There is a reason the transgender movement unleashed such immediate and intense pushback for even a mild attempt at highlighting instances of disappointment and regret with hormone therapy.
CBS’s “60 Minutes” aired a segment Sunday night interviewing a number of individuals who, after undergoing hormone treatments and sex “reassignment” surgeries, decided to “detransition” back to their natural sex. Despite “60 Minutes” framing the story around transgender health-care access and critiquing a number of recent bills introduced at the state level to protect minors from experimental treatments, LGBTQ activists denounced CBS’s reporting as “ridiculous” “fearmongering.”
CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl interviewed individuals who all fully “transitioned” to the opposite gender, then “destransitioned” when they realized they still felt “incomplete,” or more depressed after they “transitioned” than before. They told Stahl they felt they were “blindly affirmed.”
Grace Lidinsky-Smith, who decided to transition in her early 20s, explained how she quickly and easily started testosterone treatments after just a couple of sessions with an online therapist. “I can’t believe I transitioned then detransitioned, including hormones and surgery, in the course of like, less than one year,” she said.
60 Minutes highlights transgender people who have decided to de-transition and I’m sure it won’t be seen as controversial in the least. pic.twitter.com/vetbQFe3Oo
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) May 24, 2021
Stahl spoke with a youth gender psychologist who admitted her colleagues are afraid to speak up about the short timeline in which minors are able to undergo treatment “because we are afraid of not being seen as affirming … or doing something to hurt the trans community.”
Indeed, that’s exactly how these stories of “blindly affirming” trans youth are treated by the LGBTQ movement. Compelling stories of people struggling with gender identity are too dangerous to be told, according to many LGBTQ activists, because they undermine the narrative that a person’s desire to “transition” should never be questioned.
GLAAD, which bills itself as “a protest against defamatory coverage of LGBT people,” immediately lashed out at “60 Minutes” on Twitter after the segment aired. The organization called the reporting “shameful” and claimed, “the majority of the story was devoted to ‘raising concerns’ about youth access that care.”
As the piece noted, every major medical association supports affirming, age-appropriate care for trans youth and the guidelines for that care are safe and well-established. And yet, the majority of the story was devoted to "raising concerns" about youth accessing that care. (2/7)
— GLAAD (@glaad) May 24, 2021
Yes, the majority of the story was devoted to “raising concerns,” but not about preventing youth access to gender therapy. Producers were more than generous with the air time given to transgender activists who are concerned that state legislation could block minors from testosterone, estrogen, or undergoing the knife.
The very first interview, and featured throughout the segment, is with Erica Anderson, a transgender woman and gender psychologist Stahl labels as “highly respected.” Stahl leads the segment with letting Anderson establish that anyone fighting to protect minors from experimental treatment is “demonstrating their ignorance and prejudice.”
Furthermore, CBS anticipated such virulent pushback from the transgender community for even acknowledging the existence of people who “detransition” that they posted a story about their story on their website called, “Inside the 60 Minutes report on transgender health care issues.” In it, CBS attempts to appease activists by reiterating that they “wanted to keep it focused on health care and not make it a political story.” (Even though Stahl opens the segment stating the bill is “part of a new culture war.”)
In their story on their story, they even share the transgender activists’ anticipated talking points on how “dangerous” hearing stories of “detransition” could be. The report reads:
Alphonso David, an advocate for the transgender community, a LGBTQ civil rights lawyer, and the president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), told Stahl in an interview that he was concerned that reporting on those who choose to detransition could be ‘taken out of context [and] could further victimize and marginalize’ the transgender community.
Even with all the preemptive hand-wringing and caveats, “60 Minutes” could not prevent the pushback. GLAAD claimed reporting on this dramatic influence of internet culture on minors “wrongfully implied that trans YouTubers and online communities which affirm trans youth are somehow brainwashing kids and turning them trans.”
Chase Strangio, a deputy director at the American Civil Liberties Union who is also transgender, blasted “60 Minutes” for “overemphasizing the exceedingly tiny percentage of people who had access to care and regret it.”
And this Network and program chose to run a story that is part of the anti-trans playbook overemphasizing the exceedingly tiny percentage of people who had access to care and regret it. Like the “abortion regret” stories, this is the weaponization of personal pain to hurt others.
— Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) May 24, 2021
One activist even questioned the legitimacy of the “detransitoner” stories because “60 Minutes” would not tell him how they found the individuals.
When I spoke with @60Minutes about their “detransition” story and asked where they found the people to profile – they refused to tell me and became defensive.
We still don’t know if they searched for people on TERF forums, and transparency would be appreciated.
— Jack Turban MD 🏳️🌈 🧠 (@jack_turban) May 25, 2021
There is a reason the transgender movement unleashed such immediate and intense pushback for even a mild attempt at highlighting instances of disappointment and regret, and it’s because these stories are true. If “detransitioning” wasn’t a growing trend and did not undermine so much of the transgender movement’s message, then by their own logic, they would let them “live their truth.” Maybe even add another letter to the LGBTQQIP2SAA community that supposedly affirms all non-traditional patterns of sexuality and gender.
“Detransition” testimonies expose what so many parents suspect, but are too afraid to say – that maybe they shouldn’t allow their teen to chemically or physically castrate themselves at the first sign of confusion. As this issue enters more statehouses across the country, we need more journalists digging into what happens when we “blindly affirm” minors. These stories are not “dangerous” or “fearmongering,” they are crucial.
No such thing as “transgender”. It is a made-up construct by crazy faggots and crazy butch women. To legitimize their insanity, they seek to recruit and indoctrinate children. What does a normal society do with people like that? Pretend everything is fine? Why, yes! They do! They let demented creeps read “storybooks” to small children.
They still make mill stones, right?
absolutely
I’m amazed there is something trans doesn’t want us to hear.
No one is transgender. It’s impossible to change one’s sex. Chopping off one’s weewee is not changing sex. It’s self-mutilation.
Anyone remember the cartoon show from 1960 ‘ Tutor the Turtle’? He would ask lizard Mr. Wizard to turn him into something he was not. It always ended up a mess and Tutor would beg him to return back and at the end this is when Mr. Wizard says, “Always, always, I tell you Tooter, be just what you is, not what you is not. Folks that what is, is the happiest lot.”
One other funny thing about Tutor the Turtle is his voice sounded almost exactly like Dick Vitale, TV network analyst for NCAA basketball. LOL
I’ve never had a problem with these various groups seeking each other and doing whatever it is they do in their secret lairs.
But to flaunt and celebrate their society destroying abnormalities is feeding right into the hands of the Marxists who are pushing this as a means to take down capitalist America. This is Alinskyism at its darkest.
Tutor and Mr Wizard the Lizard voiced by the late, great Sandy Becker.
From what I understood, “de-transitioning” is normally called subside.
subside = suicide
Geeez...
Remember when people on the left tell you to “follow the science” that these are the same people who will tell you there are 50 different sexes.
Once your tallywhacker is hacked off, it’s pretty hard to get it back. Or will the taxpayers be dinged for transplants?
Just like gays don’t want you to hear about homosexuals recovering from their mental illness.
of course they don’t because they don’t care about real people. They only care about their agenda which is to pervert as many people as possible and destroy the US.
The sad fact (even Trans people know this or come to know it) is that there is no actual “transition”
The best possible outcome is a reasonable facsimile to the opposite gender.
You can’t change genetics
You can’t change bone structure
You can’t reproduce after changes have been made
The best medical science is capable of, with surgery and hormone therapy, at this time, is to made one resemble the desired gender to the untrained eye
But is is not complete
And often fails miserably at this
Perhaps, at some point in the future, this may be possible, but today and for the near future, it is just a dream.
However, the propaganda has been so successful that when the subjects acquire this understanding, they feel very depressed and often suicidal.
Instead of dealing with the obvious psychological underlying issues, this is used as a patch to deny those issues while allowing the profit to an industry that delights in profiting while destroying lives and hiding the truth.
Fantasy always, eventually, gives way to reality.
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