Before we even get into the story, notice once again, as with “Don’t Say Gay,” how the mainstream media simply adopts the language and agenda of progressives as the default. “Laws limiting gender-affirming care for transgender minors”; surgically removing the perfectly healthy breasts of a 14-year-old girl is “gender-affirming care.” Pumping kids full of cross-sex hormones is “gender-affirming care.” Who could possibly oppose these “lifesaving” treatments?
As we’ve reported, the Associated Press has been simping for transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr and used her “banishment” to put out a warning about red state legislatures populated by hardline conservatives:
The AP thinks it’s onto something: Many states considering a ban on “gender-affirming care” for minors are basing their bills on model legislation from conservative interest groups — unlike completely grassroots campaigns for abortion or gun control.
The AP reports:
Aaron and Lacey Jennen’s roots in Arkansas run deep. They’ve spent their entire lives there, attended the flagship state university, and are raising a family. So they’re heartbroken at the prospect of perhaps having to move to one of an ever-dwindling number of states where gender-affirming health care for their transgender teenage daughter, Sabrina, is not threatened.
“We were like, ‘OK, if we can just get Sabrina to 18 … we can put all this horrible stuff behind us,’” Aaron Jennen said, “and unfortunately that’s not been the case, as you’ve seen a proliferation of anti-trans legislation here in Arkansas and across the country.”
At least 17 states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, though judges have temporarily blocked their enforcement in some, including Arkansas. An Associated Press analysis found that often those bills sprang not from grassroots or constituent demand, but from the pens of a handful of conservative interest groups.
And?
“In the case of restrictions on gender-affirming care for youths, they allow a handful of far-right groups to spread a false narrative based on distorted science, critics say.”
AP doesn’t waste any time getting to “critics say” before interviewing a handful of liberal interest groups. But those liberal interest groups are never far-left, as the conservative ones are “far-right.”
The Associated Press has discovered lobbying! And only the “far-right” does it. And who do they think makes up these “conservative interest groups”? Conservatives. A conservative speaks up at a school board meeting about not letting biological males into the girls’ showers and is labeled a “domestic terrorist” by the government. Thank goodness we have conservative interest groups to right for us.
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