Media Accountability: A Call for Fairness
Okay media, here’s an easy test. You hold Harris-Walz to some pretty high standards, nitpicking every little apparent flip-flop or policy inconsistency, but Trump puts his oars up and floats down his stream of lies daily, without so much as a, “Can you provide any evidence of what you just said?”
Unfounded Claims About Schools and Gender
Case in point:
Trump says, “Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation.”
I’ll give CashApp $1000 to anyone that shows proof of a middle school or high school that operated on a child and changed their gender.
Trump’s Outrageous Statements
Trump: But, eh, the transgender thing is incredible. Think of it, your kid goes to school and he comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child. And you know many of these childs [sic] fifteen years later say, “What the hell happened? Who did this to me?”
WTactualF? First, why is the student at school “a few days” without going home, and wouldn’t the parents notice? I guess it was to recuperate from that major surgery, but what public school performs operations? Maybe the school nurse will fix a broken finger or give students a pill for their tummy ache, but an operation? I think not. (I’ve worked in and around schools more than 50 years, never saw an operating theater.)
Challenging the Absurdity
Also, show us even one example where a school “decides” (his word) to change a student’s gender. Who made that decision? The principal, history teacher, school board? Further, why would a school “decide” that (“We don’t have enough girls for the softball team, so Johnny, report to the principal”), and what student would submit to it rather than run home screaming?
Questioning the Logic
Then there’s: “fifteen years later [the student] says, ‘What the hell happened? Who did this to me?’” Why’d it take fifteen years to realize your equipment is different? And don’t you remember that operation you had after study hall, when the teacher “decide[d] what’s going to happen” to your body parts? Again, media: Challenge this bozo to produce even one student who asked, “Who did this to me?”
Final Thoughts
Please proceed, Trump. Toss this one out at the debate, right after you brag about what a great job your administration did with the economy, Covid, and women’s healthcare—and don’t forget your respect for the troops.
