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The PBS News Hour doubled down on its advocacy for transgender surgery for minors on Thursday evening, reacting with condescension and alarm to President Trump’s move to restrict so-called “gender-affirming medical care for minors.” This time PBS paired up with its (former) taxpayer-funded outlet National Public Radio. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: The Trump administration today took its most significant moves yet in a wide-ranging effort to restrict gender-affirming medical care for minors. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett: The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a series of actions meant to effectively ban transition-related medical treatments nationwide for those under the age of 18. Reporter Stephanie Sy followed a clip from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stating "Sex-rejecting procedures are neither safe nor effective treatment for children with gender dysphoria." Sy: We will delve into those controversial assertions in a moment, but we should say that, before these policies are enacted, there's a lengthy rulemaking process that has to take place and groups such as the ACLU are already threatening lawsuits.... Her NPR guest, a health policy reporter, was no less appalled. Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR: Yes, I mean, children's hospitals have been pioneers in this treatment for transgender young people, which can include puberty blockers, hormone therapy. Very rarely, it can include surgery. But part of the reason why children's hospitals are attractive to parents, children who are considering this treatment, is because they're interdisciplinary and they have really high-quality teams, that you can talk to therapists, you can talk to psychiatrists, you can really get that full spectrum of care. And I think that if these rules are enacted, this care will no longer happen at hospitals across the country…. 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. Simmons-Duffin avoided the actual issue of minors receiving so-called gender-affirming care while criticizing O’Neill. Simmons-Duffin: ….I think you can really hear ideology at play in those statements from Jim O'Neill. I mean, he did not say that evidence doesn't support the use of threat treatments among the pediatric patients because they have these side effects, et cetera, et cetera. No, he was saying men cannot become women, women cannot become men. He's speaking about adults. And that is kind of the foundation of understanding what it means to be transgender…. Simmons-Duffin cited the American Academy of Pediatrics as one of the brave groups “composed of doctors that actually see these patients and engage with this care don't agree and really roundly reject this characterization….” As we've noted here before, the institutional credibility of the Democratic hacks at AAP has been on a well-deserved decline since it recommended masking up toddlers, requiring student athletes to compete in masks, and flushing down the memory hole its own previous insistence that seeing faces is critical for early childhood development.  

Even when George Stephanopoulos isn't hosting, ABC's This Week sounds framed against President Trump. His primetime TV speech was trashed, he was called an "angry old man," and it was predicted that he would go down as the "least consequential president of our lifetime." From the start, host Jonathan Karl set the tone. "It's been an erratic week for Donald Trump. We've seen a defensive prime time address, the renaming of the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, a partial release of the Epstein files, and military action in both Syria and the Caribbean. All as Congress leaves Washington without addressing rising health care costs." Then it was over to the prerecorded intro to the show, and Karl kept punching. "With most Americans unhappy with the state of the economy, the President gets combative and deflects blame." Karl then ran a five second clip from Trump's Wednesday night address to the nation, followed by a gratuitous seven seconds from a clip posted by Democrat Senator Mark Warner of Virginia who attacked the speech and Trump personally. TRUMP: Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess and I'm fixing it. WARNER: Anybody who saw his speech last night saw an angry old man who has no connection to what Americans are going through. When the show's intro segment ended, Karl continued with the show's theme. "Good morning. Welcome to This Week. President Trump has gone to Palm Beach for the holidays after a particularly chaotic week at home and abroad. The latest the U.S. Coast Guard yesterday seized another oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. It's the second such vessel to be taken in the administration's escalating military campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. Back at home, the President this week sought to elevate his own standing in ways both traditional and highly nontraditional. He made an angry and defensive primetime address, touting his economic record in the face of a flurry of polls showing that most Americans just don't like the way he is handling the economy." Later in the show, Karl brought on his panel, which did not have one Trump supporter on it. Former DNC Chair Donna Brazile, SCOTUS Blog Editor Sarah Isgur, former Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign manager, now ABC Contributor, Faiz Shakir and former Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. More negative adjectives followed: KARL: Chris, let me start with you. Even by Trump's standards, this was a erratic and chaotic week. Renaming the Kennedy Center, the stuff he did at the White House, the prime time speech. What's going on? CHRISTIE: Well, first, it's so good to be here, John. Merry Christmas to you, too, Mr. President. Look, this is a pretty strange week. And just think about it. He sends out that disgraceful post on the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle. Then he puts his name on the building named after an assassinated president. Then he gives a frenetic national TV speech filled with inaccuracies and really sounded like he was yelling at the American people that they don't get how great he's done so far. ABC gets what it paid for from Christie -- a reported $475,000 a year. When Karl threw it to Isgur, who worked for Trump's Justice Department in the first term, but she had this bizarre response. "Donald Trump is on track to be the least consequential president of our lifetime, because he keeps thinking he can do things like renaming the Kennedy Center, like even the DEI policies that so many people like. Birthright citizenship, these are things that are done by statute." That may indeed be the case, but does she really believe that "so many people" like DEI? Wow!  I'm sure ABC News and Jonathan Karl are so proud that viewers of Sunday's show learned that Donald Trump, our angry old man president, had an erratic, chaotic, and strange week, is on track to be the least consequential president of our lifetime, and recently gave an address to the nation that was both combative and defensive, angry and frenetic. It has to be negative on every count. 

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A federal judge on Monday authorized the release of former special counsel Jack Smith's findings on President Donald Trump's handling of classified materials, while giving Trump 60 days to challenge the decision before they are made public.

More than a dozen survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are calling on Congress to hold the DOJ accountable, accusing the agency of violating federal law by failing to release all Epstein-related files and mishandling sensitive victim information.

President Donald Trump gave a stern warning Monday to Colombian President Gustavo Petro, accusing him of allowing cocaine production to flourish and telling him to "watch it" after Petro asserted that parts of the southwestern U.S. were "invaded" territory.

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