NPR’s large story on Monday’s Morning Version was “Florida bans gender-affirming look after transgender youth. Mother and father elevate issues,” by Melissa Block. She’s a former morning anchor turned “NPR particular correspondent masking gender points.” Block’s fully one-sided seven-minute story included a portrait of teenager Liz Bostock, “[a]ssigned male at start.”

With a comfortable, celebratory concentrate on activist moms, pleased “trans children,” and nearly no dissenting voices aired or inconvenient details raised, it’s an ideal encapsulation of the liberal media’s dangerous perspective that youngsters might be born within the fallacious physique, an error that wants irrevocable surgical and-or chemical fixing that can lead to everlasting sterilization.

NPR used the weird time period “gender-affirming care” describe gender denial….5 instances in seven minutes. {The teenager} began receiving puberty blockers final August. “It has been wonderful,” mentioned her mom.

MELISSA BLOCK: That is Liz’s mother, Virginia Hamner, who says, with gender-affirming care, she’s seen her daughter gentle up.

VIRGINIA HAMNER: It is enjoyable and thrilling for her to have the ability to be precisely who she needs to be.

BLOCK: However as for the longer term, properly, that is cloudy. Below Florida’s new guidelines that prohibit gender-affirming care for minors, new sufferers are banned solely.

The opposition to puberty blockers for youngsters is simply barely talked about and instantly contradicted by woke consultants:

BLOCK: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has focused LGBTQ rights and has made parental rights a operating theme as he eyes a possible White Home bid. The irony, says Virginia Hamner, is that her parental rights are being trampled.

HAMNER: It is a intestine punch. It is so irritating to listen to the rhetoric of parental rights be used to say children should not have entry to remedy as a result of we have to allow them to be children when it is like, you are proper. And guess what? That is all I need for my child.

BLOCK: Dozens of the nation’s main medical teams, together with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Affiliation, endorse gender-affirming care as time-tested and medically mandatory.

However Florida’s surgeon normal, appointed by Governor DeSantis, calls it extremely experimental, unproven and dangerous. A member of the state board of medication mentioned that by banning gender-affirming care, they had been performing to guard youngsters from irreversible hurt. Pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Kristin Dayton strongly disputes these claims.

KRISTIN DAYTON: There may be tons of proof to again my assertion that that is protected and wholesome for youngsters.

MELISSA BLOCK: Dayton runs the Youth Gender Program on the College of Florida. And he or she worries about her sufferers, lots of whom have not but began on blockers or hormones and now will not have the ability to.

Block didn’t acknowledge the “main U.S. medical group” American Academy of Pediatrics has damage youngsters by pushing politicized masks mandates in colleges to battle COVID, serving to make the US distinctive in requiring masks for toddlers. AAP even dishonestly deleted its personal earlier suggestions that rising youngsters have to see faces. But NPR thinks AAP is performing in youngsters’s greatest pursuits once they endorse the misnomer of “gender-affirming care.”

The very sympathetic NPR narrative-spinner additionally talked to “Sandi,” mom of a “trans son.” Their physician defined he is not going to prescribe something past her kid’s present puberty blockers. 

SANDI: One factor he has mentioned a number of instances is, I do not wish to go to jail.

MELISSA BLOCK: And to be clear, jail time just isn’t a penalty beneath Florida’s new guidelines. However many worry sanctions could possibly be toughened, a worry that is shared by some households, which is why we agreed to make use of solely Sandi’s first identify.

NPR ignored how enlightened Europe can be limiting “gender-affirming care” for youngsters and that clinics are shutting down, like in Florida. NPR additionally ignored unhappy tales of transitioned youngsters:

These children are risking sterility, sexual dysfunction, a variety of complicated medical points from stroke to most cancers, and elevated psychological instability for a remedy that has not been confirmed to work. Most frightfully, research have proven that transition doesn’t cut back the danger of suicide on this susceptible inhabitants.

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“There are some days that you just have a look at the whole lot happening and you might be simply paralyzed by worry of what is coming at your child subsequent.”

Mother and father, trans children, & docs talked w/me about Florida’s new ban on gender-affirming care. My newest for @NPR:https://t.co/JMhXvJcHVP

— melissa block (@NPRmelissablock) February 20, 2023