Fox News presents the story of a transgender five-year-old boy as part of a special LGBTQ+ Pride Month program on Friday.
Section America’s NewsroomFox News reporter Brian Llenas told the story of Ryland Whittington, a young woman whose family accepted her transition to a transgender man when she was five.
Whittington hopes that the publication of her story will encourage other families to accept their trans children.
“I’m here to make the journey hassle-free for others. It may be difficult for you right now, but we believe you, Whittington told Fox News. “This family may not know you or where you live, but you know, we understand you and we believe in you.”
Llenas described Whittington at the beginning of the episode as “a typical Southern California teenager.” According to her mother, Hillary Whittington, before Ryland could speak, she told her parents that she was a man.
“I see. He’s not the one trying to be a man. It hurts. It hurts to wear women’s clothes and we always told him you were a woman,” Hillary Whittington said.
Whittington’s family fully supported her decision when she announced she was transgender at the age of five.
Despite the Whittington family’s “conservative belief”, Whittington’s mother believed that “God created Ryland as he is.”
Llenas’ coverage includes Trevor Project statistics that more than half of transgender and non-binary children self-harm.
“I would rather have a living son than a dead daughter,” Hillary Whittington told Fox News. “If we step back and do what many parents do, I don’t think we’re going to have any of the kids you see here today.”
Hillary Whittington added that Ryland Whittington lives “true and true to himself”.
The Whittington family garnered national attention for the first time in 2014 after a family YouTube video went viral. After that, Whittington’s mother wrote a book. Raising Ryland in 2016.
The Llenas episode concluded by praising the Whittington family for publicly discussing transgender issues in today’s political climate. She also commended the family for their “extraordinary courage,” she said.
“What extraordinary courage was shown by Ryland, his sister Brinley, his father Jeff, and his mother Hillary. I want to thank the Whittington family for speaking to us. This is not easy, especially at a time when transgender issues are politicized. People are afraid of what they don’t understand Dana [Perino]said Lenas.
After conservative states across the country passed laws banning trans athletes from participating in women’s sports, or doctors began treating young children with medical “gender empowerment” services, Fox News’s focus was on transgender people.
For example, the Governor of Texas. Greg Abbott (right) from the State Department of Family and Welfare surveys households treating their children with puberty blockers, hormone therapy or sex reassignment surgery.
In states such as Florida, Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, and Oklahoma, only transgender athletes are allowed to compete on a sports team that matches their biological sex. These laws came after trans swimmer Leah Thomas dominated her opponents in the NCAA women’s 500-yard freestyle race.
Many conservative social media users criticized Fox News for the episode that aired on Friday.
“The latest organization woke up to promote gender reassignment for a young child because the boy said he was transgender? FOX NEWS, a user Wrotebegging his followers to “change the channel”.
“I kept looking up to make sure I was actually watching FOX News,” one user said. constant. “At this point we turned to Newsmax.”
“I love @FoxNews and @DanaPerino but WTAF? This poor girl will never have children and she started transitioning to sexual activity without consent,” said another user. Additional. “Fox needs to talk about the falls! The exceptions are people who cross the road before making the right decision. Trans is getting enough attention on all other networks! ”
Conservative commentator Ellie Beth Stucky aforementioned The Fox News segment featured the image of California State Senator Scott Weiner (D), offering to “ask Drag Queen 101 for K-12, who wrote a bill to prevent pedophiles from registering as sex offenders if their victims were 10 years old. or older. a law that reduces the penalty for knowingly exposing a younger person to the risk of contracting HIV.”
“Call me old-fashioned, but I would rather my conservative news outlets not encourage transgender parents to have young children.” – Michael Knowles tweeted out.
Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer my conservative newsrooms not to encourage transgender parents to have young children. pic.twitter.com/1U84xx3ww3
– Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) 10 June 2022
Source: Breitbart
