60 Minutes' Segment About Republican Attacks On Trans Kids Was Itself an Attack On Trans Kids

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60 Minutes' Segment About Republican Attacks On Trans Kids Was Itself an Attack On Trans Kids
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In state after state this year, Republican legislators have proposed—and at times successfully pushed through—discriminatory, hateful bills targeting trans kids, often relying on misinformation to justify their bigotry. It is, as many trans activists have repeatedly stated, the most sustained legislative attack on trans rights they have ever witnessed. In Arkansas, the bill that criminalizes gender-affirming care has even forced families to move to a different state so that their kids can continue to receive the care they depend upon.\n

pushed through—discriminatory, hateful bills targeting trans kids, often relying on misinformation to justify their bigotry. It is, as many trans activists have repeatedly stated, the most sustained legislative attack on trans rights they have ever witnessed. In Arkansas, the bill that criminalizes gender-affirming care has even forced families to move to a different state so that their kidsThis is not an issue that needs both-sidesing.

“I can’t believe that I transitioned and detransitioned, including hormones and surgery, in the course of, like, less than one year. It’s completely crazy,” Lidinsky-Smith told Stahl, which to an uninformed audience may make it seem that the process of receiving gender-affirming care is an easy and quick one for young people under the age of 18, when the opposite is in fact the case.

But the obsessive focus on detransitioning didn’t stop with the interview with Lidinsky-Smith. According to Stahl,interviewed more than 30 people who had detransitioned, and then featured an additional four people who had detransitioned as adults on Sunday’s segment.

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