CNN s Jeff Zucker downplaying Chris Cuomo advising his brother as a mistake and more round out today s top media headlines 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl worried this week that anti-transgender groups would weaponize her newsmagazine s featuring of people who regretted their attempts to transition to another gender. We were concerned that the groups that oppose transgender people might try to weaponize our story and use it against transgender people, Stahl said about her segment on 60 Minutes Overtime. Some of the activists who reached out to us told us they were worried about it too. Our story was really about health care. And we wanted to keep it focused on health care and not make it a political story.
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Multiple men and women who have detransitioned described how easy it was for them to get transgender surgeries and hormones in a new CBS segment and how the surgeries or treatment negatively impacted them.
As lawmakers across the country introduce and pass bills focused on gender transitions, Lesley Stahl interviewed multiple medical experts and former or current transgender people who expressed fear that transgender surgeries and hormone treatments, often irreversible, are too easily attainable.
The CBS host said the program “interviewed more than 30 detransitioners, who say they also had experienced regret, including these four, who hadn’t met before now.”
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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.”
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