{"id":1709388,"date":"2022-10-24T16:33:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T20:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709388"},"modified":"2022-10-24T16:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T20:33:45","slug":"for-the-associated-press-child-mutilation-is-now-gender-affirming-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/for-the-associated-press-child-mutilation-is-now-gender-affirming-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"For The Associated Press, \u2018Child Mutilation\u2019 Is Now \u2018Gender-Affirming Surgery\u2019"},"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\">20<\/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%2Ffor-the-associated-press-child-mutilation-is-now-gender-affirming-surgery%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=1709388&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>Back when I was covering President George W. Bush, the Associated Press \u2013 long held aloft as an unbiased news source \u2013 made an extraordinary decision.<\/p>\n<p>The worldwide wire service decided that no, there aren\u2019t two sides to every story. There is one correct side and, the AP decided, the news agency would just present that. For instance, climate change is settled science, so anyone who offers their views \u2014 or, God forbid, real data \u2014 to refute that should be shunned.<\/p>\n<p>Just last year, CBS News anchor Lester Holt laid out what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nbc-news-anchor-fairness-is-overrated\">news coverage<\/a> is nowadays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in,\u201d he said as he was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism from Washington State University.<\/p>\n<p>Holt acknowledged the fact that a departure from the objectivity once represented in journalism could \u201creinforce negative sentiment some hold to journalists.\u201d \u201cThat we have had to be more direct in our language in recent times only speaks to the volume and gravity of particular statements and claims,\u201d Holt said.<\/p>\n<p>And the AP is making sure it controls the language it delivers to its mostly liberal readers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVanderbilt to review gender-affirming surgeries for minors,\u201d the AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/health-business-tennessee-nashville-vanderbilt-university-6deb93f7dea92f1b2082c39f72b59766\">headlined<\/a> a story earlier this month. No, the wire service didn\u2019t use the term \u201cmutilation of children,\u201d instead it is \u201cgender affirming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficials at Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced Friday that they are pausing gender-affirming surgeries for minors in order to review their practices,\u201d the article said. In all, the piece used the term seven times.<\/p>\n<p>Euphemisms are the worst in general but especially awful when they replace a term for a horrible procedure. Years ago, pro-abortion advocates took issue with the term \u201cpartial-birth abortion.\u201d Technically known as \u201cintact dilation and extraction\u201d \u2014 because the baby is partially delivered before being murdered \u2014 the AP decided to call that \u201clate-term abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AP has played language policeman before to aid President Joe Biden. When Biden didn\u2019t want to call the current situation at the U.S.-Mexico border a \u201ccrisis,\u201d the AP announced in 2021 that it wouldn\u2019t use the word, either.<\/p>\n<p>Top AP officials told its reporters and editors to avoid using the word \u201ccrisis,\u201d saying the border is not in crisis. For the record, Webster\u2019s Dictionary defines \u201ccrisis\u201d as \u201can unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an internal memo in March 2021 titled \u201cFrom the Standards Center: A note about the current increase in border entrances,\u201d AP Vice President and Editor-at-Large for Standards John Daniszewski said the border situation doesn\u2019t meet that standard, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/associated-press-tells-reporters-not-to-use-crisis-when-describing-situation-at-southern-border\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current events in the news \u2013 a sharp increase in the arrival of unaccompanied minors \u2013 is a problem for border officials, a political challenge for Biden and a dire situation for many migrants who make the journey, but it does not fit the classic dictionary definition of a crisis,\u201d the memo reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore,\u201d it adds, \u201cwe should avoid, or at least, be highly cautious, about referring to the present situation as a crisis on our own, although we may quote others using that language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And of course the AP banned the term \u201cillegal alien,\u201d opting for the euphemistic \u201cundocumented migrant\u201d (that means there\u2019s a foreigner in the U.S. who didn\u2019t emigrate according to the law, which makes them an \u201cillegal alien\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Biden on Monday codified the language, saying it was wrong for states to ban \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d and declaring people should enter public restrooms based on their gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>As the economy implodes, Biden sat down for an interview with a small podcast, taking a question from 25-year-old transgender actress Dylan Mulvaney if states should have the right to \u201cban gender-affirming healthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think any state or anybody should have the right to do that\u2014as a moral question and as a legal question. I just think it\u2019s wrong,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was covering President George W. Bush, the Associated Press \u2013 long held aloft as an unbiased news source \u2013 made an extraordinary decision. The worldwide wire service decided that no, there aren\u2019t two sides to every story. 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