{"id":1473966,"date":"2022-05-13T08:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1473966"},"modified":"2022-05-13T08:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:15:51","slug":"corporate-media-celebrates-the-exponential-rise-of-the-transgender-craze-it-helped-create","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corporate-media-celebrates-the-exponential-rise-of-the-transgender-craze-it-helped-create\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Media Celebrates The Exponential Rise Of The Transgender Craze It Helped Create"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcorporate-media-celebrates-the-exponential-rise-of-the-transgender-craze-it-helped-create%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1473966&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/19001118482_73da0f8c80_k.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/389792\/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx\">Gallup poll released earlier this year<\/a>, the percentage of American adults self-identifying as something other than heterosexual has increased to 7.1 percent, double the percentage from 2012, when Gallup first measured this statistic. Almost 21 percent of Generation Z (young adults born between 1997 and 2003) identify as LGBT. When compared to the baby boomer generation, the percentage of Americans identifying as transgender has risen twentyfold, as Ross Douthat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/13\/opinion\/transgender-culture-war.html\">recently observed<\/a> in The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/17\/us\/lgbtq-population-increase-gallup-cec\/index.html\">Plenty<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2022\/02\/17\/adults-identifying-lgbt-gen-z\/\">of outlets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-news\/percentage-lgbtq-adults-us-doubled-decade-gallup-finds-rcna16556\">reported<\/a> on this remarkable development. The tenor of corporate media commentary has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2022\/05\/02\/trans-nonbinary-kids-school-policies\/\">widely celebratory<\/a> \u2014 surely this must mean that people finally feel comfortable truly inhabiting their own skin. What we are witnessing, they say, is the flowering of trans life. Yet is it really that simple?<\/p>\n<h2>Media Makes the Shift<\/h2>\n<p>In truth, the media have been aggressively fueling the trans craze for years. When Laverne Cox became the first transgender person to <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/magazine\/us\/135460\/june-9th-2014-vol-183-no-22-u-s\/\">appear on the cover of Time magazine<\/a>, it attracted extensive national media coverage. Indeed, Cox was also the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine. And Glamour named Cox \u201cWoman of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Bruce Jenner the following year announced on \u201c20\/20\u201d his new trans image under the name Caitlyn, the interview received 20.7 million viewers, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150518143053\/http:\/www.tvmediainsights.com\/tv-ratings\/bruce-jenner-2020-interview-rises-20-million-viewers\/\">which made it<\/a> television\u2019s \u201chighest-ever rated newsmagazine telecast among adults 18\u201349 and adults 25\u201354. Jenner appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, won the Social Media Queen award at the Teen Choice Awards, and was named one of Glamour\u2019s 25 Women of the Year, the magazine calling her a \u201cTrans Champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In short order, the entire journalist profession pushed trans ideology. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/ap-stylebook-embraces-they-singular-gender-neutral-pronoun-n739076\">In March 2017<\/a>, the AP changed its stylebook, embracing \u201cthey\u201d as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun. The Washington Post began running regular public interest pro-trans stories, often on the front page. <\/p>\n<p>Since 2014, the WaPo alone has run approximately 1,160 articles and opinions on transgenderism. It has run only 597 articles or opinions on Native Americans during that same time period. Over that same time period, The New York Times\u2019 numbers are even higher, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/search?dropmab=false&#038;endDate=20220510&#038;query=transgenderism&#038;sort=best&#038;startDate=20140101\">almost 8,000<\/a> unreservedly positive news stories and opinion pieces on transgenderism.<\/p>\n<h2>The Silencing of Alternative Views<\/h2>\n<p>Coupled with this media fervor was a silencing of alternative views. When a 2018 study was published by a then-assistant professor of the practice at the Brown University School of Public Health indicating that social factors might be one causal factor in the dramatic increase in gender dysphoria among our nation\u2019s youth, academics, medical professionals, and journalists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/new-paper-ignites-storm-over-whether-teens-experience-rapid-onset-transgender-identity\">quickly attacked<\/a> the research. <\/p>\n<p>Slate <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2018\/08\/rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-study-criticism-is-not-censorship-its-good-science.html\">labeled it<\/a> \u201cpoorly designed\u201d and \u201cmarred by errors and omissions.\u201d Due to such pressure, Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/news\/2019-03-19\/gender\">sought to distance<\/a> itself from the study and publicized that corrections and revisions were made to downplay the role of social factors in the rise of gender dysphoria. The study\u2019s findings are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellmind.com\/the-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-controversy-5210551\">widely criticized<\/a> as \u201charmful\u201d to LGBT persons.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing happened when University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus dared to publish research demonstrating that across a multitude of factors, children of gay parents fared worse than children raised by married opposite-sex parents. Academics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2015\/05\/10\/new-criticism-of-regnerus-study-on-parenting-study\/\">published articles<\/a> repudiating Regnerus\u2019s research, and prominent outlets like the Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/social-science-struggles-with-the-effects-of-same-sex-parenting-on-children\/2013\/03\/26\/a6fa50ca-9655-11e2-8b4e-0b56f26f28de_story.html\">noted<\/a> that Regnerus \u201chas been the subject of intense criticism from mainstream researchers.\u201d UT Austin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nas.org\/academic-questions\/26\/2\/the_campaign_to_discredit_regnerus_and_the_assault_on_peer_review\">launched<\/a> \u201can inquiry to determine whether a formal investigation is needed,\u201d although the university ultimately found no plausible grounds for an investigation and closed the inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, and perhaps most famously, Abigail Shrier\u2019s book \u201cIrreversible Damage\u201d about the negative effects of gender dysphoria on prepubescent and adolescent girls was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/08\/opinion\/trans-teen-transition.html\">pilloried by leftist media<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2021\/07\/16\/irreversible-damage-anti-trans-booksellers-association\/\">removed by booksellers<\/a> for its \u201cdangerous\u201d content. Before her, scholar Ryan T. Anderson\u2019s \u201cWhen Harry Became Sally\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encounterbooks.com\/features\/statement-on-amazon\/\">was delisted from Amazon<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In other words, any scientific data that undermines the narrative of an increasingly tolerant society that has enabled the sexual and gender liberation of an entire generation will be summarily denounced as erroneous and bigoted. Few sociologists or psychologists today would dare to conduct research that might suggest otherwise. Presumably, any data that doesn\u2019t fit the faux consensus is simply ignored by researchers, if not permanently deleted.<\/p>\n<h2>Narrow, Permitted Concern About the Transdemic<\/h2>\n<p>Corporate media have recently permitted only a select group of persons to express heavily caveated concerns about this massive social shift. In April, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/04\/11\/i-was-too-young-to-decide-about-transgender-surgery-at-nineteen\/\">featured an op-ed by trans person Corinna Cohn<\/a>, who was given the freedom to explain that the destruction of his gonads \u201cintroduced a different type of bondage,\u201d and that since his\u00a0surgery, he has become a \u201cmedical patient and will remain one for the rest of my life.\u201d The WaPo even gave him permission to bemoan the distorting influences of social media on teenagers and \u201chow readily authority figures facilitate transition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2022-04-12\/a-transgender-psychologist-reckons-with-how-to-support-a-new-generation-of-trans-teens\">recently interviewed<\/a> Erica Anderson, a trans person and former clinical psychologist at the University of California San Francisco\u2019s Child and Adolescent Gender Clinic, \u201cwho has helped hundreds of teenagers transition.\u201d Anderson expressed concern with the recent spike in gender dysphoria among American youth, saying \u201cI think it\u2019s gone too far.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Separately, in 2018, Anderson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/when-kids-come-in-saying-they-are-transgender-or-no-gender-these-doctors-try-to-help\/2018\/01\/19\/f635e5fa-dac0-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html\">told the WaPo<\/a> of fears that many kids were experimenting with different gender identities because it was \u201ctrendy\u201d and often motivated by peer pressure. \u201cTo flatly say there couldn\u2019t be any social influence in formation of gender identity flies in the face of reality. Teenagers influence each other,\u201d Anderson declared.<\/p>\n<h2>Blaming the Youth Trans Craze<\/h2>\n<p>Missing so far in the media\u2019s patently biased and circumscribed willingness to acknowledge that perhaps this is more than just the utopian realization of the sexual revolution is an admission of their complicity in facilitating this reality. For more than a decade corporate media endlessly and unequivocally advocated this narrative \u2014 publishing heaps of human interest stories and sympathetic op-eds on the plight of transgender youth. <\/p>\n<p>This includes coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/podcasts\/please-go-on\/gavin-grimm-on-the-fight-for-transgender-rights\/\">trans student Gavin Grimm<\/a>, whose battle with a local school board over its bathroom policy went all the way to the Supreme Court, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/22\/us\/lia-thomas-transgender-swimmer-ivy-league\/index.html\">Lia Thomas<\/a>, the trans swimmer who earlier this year won a Division I NCAA women\u2019s national swimming title. After Thomas won, NBC was caught <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/25\/why-is-nbc-news-doctoring-photos-of-lia-thomas-to-look-less-masculine\/\">editing photos<\/a> of Thomas in their coverage to make the swimmer look less masculine. <\/p>\n<p>The message from leftist corporate media has been suffocatingly consistent: \u201cEncourage and support your child in their exploration of their gender identity.\u201d Never has it been: \u201cPerhaps this isn\u2019t a good idea\u201d or \u201ctake it slow\u201d or \u201cmaybe she\u2019s just a tomboy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>No, the media steamrolled over dissenters and irresponsibly urged parents and educators to accept and even promote this mental health pandemic. It labeled as bigots and transphobes any who resisted and permitted only one narrative to be disseminated: absolute, uncontested celebration of heightened incidence rates of transgenderism among American youth.<\/p>\n<h2>Social Pressure Works<\/h2>\n<p>And my, has that messaging campaign been successful. There are now \u201c300 clinics that prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children in North America.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standingforfreedom.com\/2022\/04\/americas-transdemic\/\">Only six years ago<\/a>, in 2016 there were fewer than 50, and less than a decade ago in 2013 there were only a handful. In 2007, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GenderMapper\/status\/1517048493457780738\">there were only two<\/a> pediatric gender clinics in the entire United States \u2014 one in New York and one in Washington, D.C. Today <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GenderMapper\/status\/1517048493457780738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">there are dozens across the nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The sex reassignment surgery industry has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gminsights.com\/industry-analysis\/sex-reassignment-surgery-market\">experienced remarkable growth<\/a>, and is slated to witness still more over the next five years. Big pharma is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/20\/gender-ideology-a-boon-to-big-pharma-and-threat-to-parental-rights\/\">making quite a bit of money<\/a> from the trans boom. The <a href=\"https:\/\/humanumreview.com\/articles\/the-trans-industrial-complex\">transgender industrial complex<\/a> is a growth market! <\/p>\n<p>Yet one finds few, if any, stories in corporate media examining this unhealthy alliance between gender ideology activists and woke capitalism. Might this have something to do with the fact that many journalists <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6128490\/kid-of-the-year-kai-shappley-trans-activist\/\">are complicit<\/a> in promoting trans activism among our nation\u2019s youth?<\/p>\n<p>As media outlets return to this story, they should take a good, hard look in the mirror. For it is them, not conservative politicians trying to curb the influence of this crisis, who should be censured for harming American youth. Moreover, as many of these gender-dysphoric youth mature over the next few decades into physically, emotionally, and psychologically damaged and broken adults wondering what happened to them, they should cast a suspicious eye on the journalists and media outlets who helped engineer this public catastrophe.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Casey Chalk is a senior contributor at The Federalist and an editor and columnist at The New Oxford Review. He has a bachelor\u2019s in history and master\u2019s in teaching from the University of Virginia and a master\u2019s in theology from Christendom College. He is the author of The Persecuted: True Stories of Courageous Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Gallup poll released earlier this year, the percentage of American adults self-identifying as something other than heterosexual has increased to 7.1 percent, double the percentage from 2012,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":658,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}