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May 24, 2021
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CBS News interviewed over 30 people who have detransitioned and “experienced regret” after receiving transgender surgeries or procedures.
“Just four months after she started testosterone, she says she was approved for a mastectomy, what’s called ‘top surgery,’ that she told us was traumatic,” CBS News’ Lesley Stahl said of a young woman, Grace Lidinsky-Smith, who transitioned in her twenties.
American Principles Project President Terry Schilling told the Daily Caller News Foundation Monday: “Unfortunately, after long being ignored, this concern has become a reality so much so that even the legacy media feels they can no longer disregard the voices of de-transitioners.”
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In the latest case of liberal-on-liberal friendly fire, CBS News and 60 Minutes found itself under the gun Sunday and Monday for the crime of engaging in actual, balanced journalism with longtime correspondent Lesley Stahl reporting on transgender people and how some who’ve changed their gender have had second thoughts.
“dangerous,” “ridiculous,” and
To read the rest of this comical thread showing the intolerant left’s aversion to balance and journalism that is insufficiently partisan, click the screencap above. Chase Strangio – who was shown in Stahl’s piece as a “transgender influencer”
“run a story that is part of the anti-trans playbook” and caused “harm” to trans people that would be “dangerous” and “unaccountable.”
On Sunday, CBS News’
60 Minutes aired an important news segment on the phenomenon of detransitioning when a person who identified as transgender and undertook various interventions to confirm a cross-sex identity later rejects a transgender identity and embraces his or her biological sex. Many transgender activists have objected to news outlets covering these important stories, but
60 Minutes ran with the story, anyway.
“I can’t believe that I transitioned and detransitioned, including hormones and surgery, in the course of, like, less than one year. It’s completely crazy,” Grace Lidinsky-Smith told
Lidinsky-Smith suffered from serious depression and developed gender dysphoria in her early 20s. She began searching for answers in transgender communities on the internet.
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