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‘We All Have a Role to Play’:
The Fight Against Anti-Transgender Legislation
During a record-breaking year for state legislative attacks against the transgender community, ELLE turned to experts and activists for a roundtable discussion about how we got here and where the fight goes next. Michael Noble Jr.Getty Images
Coming into 2021, LGBTQ advocates were bracing for a storm. All the elements were there, a perfect set up for a deluge across the country. But still, the blitz has been staggering.
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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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Mary Margaret Olohan is a reporter covering social issues for The Daily Caller News Foundation.
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.”