Within the Biden years, Nationwide “Public” Radio acted as a supine publicist for leftists with sturdy opinions on gender — beginning with HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel [Richard] Levine.
On Friday on their “Goats and Soda” weblog, NPR world well being correspondent Jonathan Lambert was placing out the warning siren on the brand new head of the HHS Workplace of World Affairs with this headline:
America’s new high well being diplomat has sturdy opinions on abortion and gender
Levine additionally had “sturdy opinions” on abortion and gender from the opposite route, however NPR agreed with these. In 2022, they let Levine declare “I am not political….I am a doctor” whereas he claimed conservatives had been driving trans children to suicide. The story started:
America’s new high well being diplomat is Bethany Kozma….
Kozma has a report of public statements and activism on well being points, equating abortion with “homicide” and campaigning towards gender-affirming care.
The bias is obvious in what will get scare quotes – abortion apparently isn’t “homicide” (you “entry abortion care”) and mutilating your genitals is “gender-affirming care.”
Not like the Bidenites, Kozma did not have any remark for “public” radio activists. “Kozma declined to be interviewed for this story. She would not seem to have a background in world well being based mostly on publicly out there info on-line.”
However Kozma is disturbingly conservative:
In a 2016 commentary for The Every day Sign, a conservative information web site based by the Heritage Basis, she argued towards the Obama administration’s steering that public colleges ought to permit youngsters to make use of the lavatory that comports with their identification.
“This radical agenda of subjective ‘gender fluidity’ and unrestricted bathe and toilet entry really endangers all,” she said, noting that “predators” might abuse the coverage.
The Democrats needed her faraway from the final Trump administration:
In 2017, she joined the Trump administration as senior adviser for Gender Equality and Ladies’s Empowerment in the USA Company for Worldwide Improvement, ultimately being promoted to deputy chief of employees. In movies obtained and launched by [leftist media group] ProPublica, Kozma recollects calling the U.S. a “pro-life” nation in a closed-door U.N. assembly about girls’s rights in 2018, when entry to abortion was nonetheless protected nationally by Roe v. Wade.“
In August 2020, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., and 4 different Democratic senators issued a letter labeling Kozma and a number of other different political appointees at USAID as “prejudiced” and known as for them to be faraway from their posts. Kozma has “spoken extensively and derisively of trans individuals and trans points,” the senators wrote.
The Lambert story did embody supportive quotes from HHS and from first-term HHS government Roger Severino. However the Left – described with out ideological labels – can’t stand her:
Some reproductive rights advocates consider Kozma will use her new place to insert anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ insurance policies into these agreements.
“[Kozma] is vehemently anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI+, anti-abortion,” says Keifer Buckingham, managing director on the Council on World Equality, a coalition of advocacy organizations that focuses on LGBTQ points. “For these of us who wish to be certain that the availability of U.S. overseas help and well being would not discriminate towards individuals based mostly on who they’re, [Kozma’s appointment] raises a whole lot of crimson flags.”
Poor Keifer! In different phrases, to conservatives, Kozma sounds terrific. However this type of “information” reporting underlines why conservatives needed NPR to lose its taxpayer subsidies.
