{"id":1510648,"date":"2022-06-10T15:49:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510648"},"modified":"2022-06-10T15:50:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:50:17","slug":"fox-news-praises-childs-gender-transition-in-special-pride-month-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-praises-childs-gender-transition-in-special-pride-month-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Praises Child\u2019s Gender Transition In Special \u2018Pride Month\u2019 Segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Ffox-news-praises-childs-gender-transition-in-special-pride-month-segment%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=1510648&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--><p>Fox News on Friday highlighted the story of a biological girl whose family encouraged her to identify as a boy as part of its\u00a0\u201cAmerica Together: LGBTQ+ Pride Month\u201d series.<\/p>\n<p>The segment aired as conservatives across the nation have rallied against chemical and surgical sex-change treatments for children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFourteen-year-old Ryland Whittington is a typical southern California teenager,\u201d reporter Bryan Llenas said, introducing the segment. \u201cAnd the Whittingtons along with his mom, dad, and sister are a typical family. The only difference, in Ryland\u2019s eyes, is what this family can mean to the tens of thousands of kids under 18 who identify as transgender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Llenas praises Ryland for having the \u201cextraordinary courage\u201d to share the story, \u201cparticularly at a time when trans gender issues have been politicized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer when my conservative news outlets don\u2019t encourage parents to trans their little children. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1U84xx3ww3\">pic.twitter.com\/1U84xx3ww3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeljknowles\/status\/1535345291548934147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ryland\u2019s mother, Hillary, claimed that her biological daughter claimed to be a boy while still an infant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore Ryland could speak he managed to tell his parents that he is a boy,\u201d he said. \u201cI could see it. It wasn\u2019t him trying to be a brat. It was like, painful. It was painful for him to have to wear feminine clothing and for us constantly telling him that you are a girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Llenas describes how Ryland \u201ccame out at age 5.\u201d Ryland\u2019s parents initially pushed back, trying to \u201cunderstand this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were confused like most people are,\u201d Hillary Whittington said. \u201cWe thought gender and sexuality were the same thing. It took us a while to figure out those two things are different and children actually do recognize their gender identity very young. Some of them, not all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Whittingtons claimed their Christian faith helped them facilitate their biological daughter\u2019s sex change. When a man in a support group told them Ryland had gender dysphoria, \u201cwe didn\u2019t listen and pushed back,\u201d Ryland\u2019s father, Jeff Whittington, told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Whittington family and Llenas cited disputed claims that not allowing children confused about their gender to take puberty blockers or even more drastic chemical or surgical can lead to self-harm and suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Trans man Scott Newgent, who founded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trevoices.org\">TReVoices<\/a>, an organization dedicated to protecting children from being steered into dangerous transitions, says just the opposite is true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents, medical transition is not for children; it\u2019s creating an illusion of the opposite gender for comfort,\u201d Newgent, who transitioned six years ago at age 42, wrote on the site\u2019s home page. \u201cAdults have the right to choose, but it doesn\u2019t cure anything; it\u2019s experimental, and it is not safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, Fox News had not responded to The Daily Wire\u2019s media inquiry about the segment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News on Friday highlighted the story of a biological girl whose family encouraged her to identify as a boy as part of its\u00a0\u201cAmerica Together: LGBTQ+ Pride Month\u201d series. 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