Remember the good ole days when PBS was nothing more than Sesame Street, Mr. Rodgers and the Electric Company? Now it’s nothing more than a previously government funded left wing propaganda shithole, that managed to even ruin Sesame Street.. Now they are claiming that you can’t determine if someone is the opposite biological sex they claim, unless you have a medical degree or something.
Simmons-Duffin does not bring journalistic skepticism to her transgender coverage, only cheerleading. She had previously handed over the NPR microphone to President Biden’s transgender Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Rachel Levine in 2022, when Levine was engaged in a road trip to, in the words of NPR anchor Mary Louise Kelly, “urge medical students to fight political attacks against trans young people and their families.”
Sy provided a classic example of condescending liberal gatekeeping with a side of denial of basic biological fact. Does someone have to be a doctor to tell the difference between a man and a woman?
Sy: For all the talk of gold-standard science at the announcement today, there were a few nonscientists who made declarative statements dismissing gender dysphoria altogether. I want to play what Jim O’Neill, deputy secretary at HHS, who has no medical degree, had to say.
Jim O’Neill, U.S. Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary: Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men. At the root of the evils we face, such as the blurring of the lines between sexes and radical social agendas, is a hatred for nature as God designed it.