Each The New York Occasions and The Washington Submit uncorked their alarm on the entrance web page on Friday when the Trump administration declared it could ban federal funding from any hospital that gives gender-denying care to minors.
The Submit headline was “Trans look after minors focused.” The Occasions headline was “U.S. to Halt Look after Trans Youth.” The shock right here was neither of those tales used the Orwellian time period “gender-affirming care” of their left-tilting dispatches. “Gender transition care” or “gender-related care” have been the replacements.
The Occasions story – penned by Azeen Ghorayshi, Amy Harmon, and Reed Abelson – was extra panicked. “The administration’s motion isn’t just a regulatory shift however the newest sign that the federal authorities doesn’t acknowledge even the existence of individuals whose gender id doesn’t align with their intercourse at start.”
The E-word erupts once more later:
Thursday’s announcement follows the clear highway map set out by Mr. Trump in govt orders issued in his first days in workplace that denied the very existence of transgender individuals. “It’s the coverage of america to acknowledge two sexes, female and male,” the president wrote.
That’s not denying the existence of individuals – it’s denying their delusions.
The Occasions quoted from three leftist teams – the ACLU, the Human Rights Marketing campaign, and the Motion Development Mission, with out a label, however they squealed about an “ultraconservative Republican majority” in Congress keen to again Trump.
The Submit story by Paige Winfield Cunningham did the identical, citing the ACLU and the HRC with out a label. They have been merely “LGBTQ+ advocates.” However she warned “Conservatives and a few former transition care suppliers have charged that younger individuals questioning their gender id are being given sometimes-irreversible interventions too rapidly.”
Utilizing “care” because the antonym of “transition” attracts quote marks: “Assistant Secretary for Well being Brian Christine, who earlier than his appointment known as for transgender youth to bear “corrective care” as a substitute of transitioning…”
The Submit on-line story used the phrase “transition care” 13 occasions, together with twice within the headline block.
The Washington Occasions put this story on web page A-6 on Friday beneath this headline: “HHS strikes to chop funds to hospitals providing ‘sex-rejecting’ care to minors.” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used the time period “sex-rejecting,” which is way more correct than “gender-affirming.”
