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PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, whose reporting down the homestretch of the 2024 presidential election has so far been wretchedly partisan, was at it again on Friday’s edition, painting a potential second Trump Administration as a threat to the lives of transgenders, and even chiding the Biden Administration for suggesting transgender surgery on minors should be limited. She engaged in a 100% sympathetic interview – no actual journalism was committed – of Leigh Finke, a biological male “trans woman” elected to the Minnesota legislature in 2022 and executive director of something called the Queer Equity Institute. It’s no surprise PBS is all-in on pushing anti-Republican fear-mongering and “gender identity” propaganda, given its recent history of coverage, wholly ignoring that the legislation under which the Public Broadcasting Service operates requires balance when covering controversial news stories. Co-host Amna Nawaz: Today, the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a law restricting medical care for transgender youth. That comes after New Hampshire's governor signed a law last week banning gender transition-related surgeries for minors. Laura Barron-Lopez looks at the wider political battle over transgender rights as the 2024 election nears. Barron-Lopez, the show’s most biased reporter, whose usual beat is the White House, stuck to the theme of Republican "cruelty" in resisting the trans agenda.  Laura Barron-Lopez: ….Laws restricting gender-affirming care have now been passed in some form in more than half the states across the United States. You started the Trans Refuge Project, so people know how safe it is for trans people in any given state. Can you give us the lay of the land right now? Finke: The lay of the land is very bad. Things are very, very hard for trans people in the United States right now…. How bad is it if Trump were re-elected? Finke said it would be "catastrophic," that "If we were to add the federal government on top of that backing these states, trying to export the harm and the hate and the cruelty of these red states that are attacking trans people in just the most vicious ways possible, to export that to the federal government and to see the damage that could be done, I mean, it's very difficult to overstate how hard that would be and what lengths we would have to go to survive." They need to "elect a President Harris." Finke’s hyperbolic left-wing rhetoric stood unchallenged by any journalistic pushback, courtesy of tax-funded PBS. There could have potentially been one actual challenging question, but Barron-Lopez turned it into still more sympathy for Finke’s radical transgender stance. Barron-Lopez: I want to ask you about a specific kind of gender-affirming care, and that is surgeries for minors. According to an e-mail obtained by the LGBTQ news site The Advocate, Neera Tanden, the domestic policy adviser for the Biden White House, said -- quote -- "Gender-affirming surgeries are typically reserved for adults, and we believe they should be." We should note that the Biden Administration continues to fight gender-affirming care bans, including bans on surgeries, across states, in the courts, but that language sparked criticism from LGBTQ rights groups and advocates. What's your response to that? Finke: I share the concerns that were raised when we heard that, right? I think that Tanden could have stopped at “gender-affirming surgeries are typically reserved for adults,” that is true. There are very few surgeries that are conducted on minors in the United States…. Barron-Lopez: Do you think that that kind of language from the White House does more harm, even though they are continuing to fight these bans in court? Even the Biden White House is harming the trans activists? How far to the Left can PBS get? This 100% pro-LGBTQ segment has been brought to you in part by Raymond James and taxpayers like you. A transcript is available, click “Expand.” PBS News Hour 7/26/24 7:30:26 p.m. (ET) Amna Nawaz: Today, the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a law restricting medical care for transgender youth. That comes after New Hampshire's governor signed a law last week banning gender transition-related surgeries for minors. Laura Barron-Lopez looks at the wider political battle over transgender rights as the 2024 election nears. Laura Barron-Lopez: New Hampshire is now the 26th state to restrict or ban gender-affirming care, as Republicans seek to galvanize their base around the issue nationally. For more on these legislative moves and what they mean for the rights of transgender people in the U.S., I'm joined by Leigh Finke. She became the first trans person elected to the Minnesota legislature in 2022 and is the executive director of the nonprofit Queer Equity Institute. Leigh, thank you so much for joining the "News Hour." State Rep. Leigh Finke (D-MN): Thank you for having me. Laura Barron-Lopez: Laws restricting gender-affirming care have now been passed in some form in more than half the states across the United States. You started the Trans Refuge Project, so people know how safe it is for trans people in any given state. Can you give us the lay of the land right now? State Rep. Leigh Finke: The lay of the land is very bad. Things are very, very hard for trans people in the United States right now. And the Trans Refuge Project is an attempt for us to not just understand what's happening, but for us to understand how we can help people where they are, without necessarily having to move. Everybody can't relocate their family. So Queer Equity Institute is trying to build network and coalition to help people where they are, because half of the country is living under these bans and it is getting worse. Laura Barron-Lopez: And how has this situation changed since you entered the Minnesota legislature? State Rep. Leigh Finke: When I entered, it was about six or seven states. Obviously, two years later, we're at 26, so things have gotten dramatically worse. We're also seeing states push more cruel policies, right? They're running out of states that are going to be able to ban gender-affirming care, so they're moving on to even more anti-trans, cruel, hateful policies that are being pushed in the states that have already done so. So it continues to get significantly hard. Laura Barron-Lopez: The Supreme Court recently said that it would hear arguments about Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, and that case could be hugely consequential for all the states that have bans. How concerned are you about the legal path forward? State Rep. Leigh Finke: I'm very concerned about the potential outcomes of that case. We have seen what this court is capable of and what it does to our bodily autonomy and our rights as vulnerable citizens in this country, and I think, if they were to uphold the ban on gender-affirming care in Tennessee, and that were to be the policy of the entire United States, we would once again be facing a very uncertain decade or two, as we settled into what would be a dramatically darker America for trans people. Laura Barron-Lopez: I want to ask you about a specific kind of gender-affirming care, and that is surgeries for minors. According to an e-mail obtained by the LGBTQ news site The Advocate, Neera Tanden, the domestic policy adviser for the Biden White House, said — quote — "Gender-affirming surgeries are typically reserved for adults, and we believe they should be." We should note that the Biden administration continues to fight gender-affirming care bans, including bans on surgeries across states, in the courts, but that language sparked criticism from LGBTQ rights groups and advocates. What's your response to that? State Rep. Leigh Finke: I share the concerns that were raised when we heard that, right? I think that Tanden could have stopped at gender-affirming surgeries are typically reserved for adults that is true. There are very few surgeries that are conducted on minors in the United States. Those decisions are very difficult. They are best made by families and doctors in very specialized circumstances. And making those autonomous decisions should be up to the families and their physicians and not any politicians of any party. Laura Barron-Lopez: Do you think that that kind of language from the White House does more harm, even though they are continuing to fight these bans in court? State Rep. Leigh Finke: Yes, I mean, the Biden administration has been the most pro-trans presidential administration that we have ever seen in the history of this country by far. But, yes, it does — it is something that we need to be cautious about. I do not want to have the — any language that is showing that the trans rights movement that we are a part of, that we are fighting on the lines, on the front lines of saying bodily autonomy and family autonomy is what matters, and it's best if we do not interfere with that on-the-ground work that we're doing. Laura Barron-Lopez: Speaking of the 2024 presidential election, that's front and center right now for a lot of Americans. How are you viewing this election from the perspective of transgender rights and rights for LGBTQ people? State Rep. Leigh Finke: Yes, I mean, in terms of trans rights, the work that I do on the ground as a trans activist, there is no question about the outcome of this election that we need, which is to elect now a President Harris. We know that the alternative is untenable across the board. There is no denying what the second Trump administration would do. We have a very clear statement of values from the contemporary American Republican movement, which is that trans people should not have legal recognition, we should not have health care. There is no question about what we need to do in the future in terms of presidential politics. Laura Barron-Lopez: If Donald Trump were to be elected for a second term, what kind of impact do you think that would have on trans rights? State Rep. Leigh Finke: I think it would be catastrophic. We have a — we already live in a country with state attacks that are going largely undefended, just given the system that we have. If we were to add the federal government on top of that backing these states, trying to export the harm and the hate and the cruelty of these red states that are attacking trans people in just the most vicious ways possible, to export that to the federal government and to see the damage that could be done, I mean, it's very difficult to overstate how hard that would be and what lengths we would have to go to survive. Laura Barron-Lopez: Leigh Finke of Minnesota, thank you for your time. State Rep. Leigh Finke: Thank you.

On Monday's CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, fill-in host Pamela Brown devoted a segment to a liberal group called White Dudes for Harris, allowing one of CNN's favorite liberal guests, anti-gun activist David Hogg, to promote his involvement in the group. Brown set up the segment: Well, tonight -- today -- tens of thousands have signed up to participate in what's being described as a White Dudes for Harris video call. That call is tonight. Joining us now to discuss, that call's organizer, Ross Morales Rocketto, and Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg. He'll be participating in this call. Brown began by nudging Rocketto to describe the amazing Harris momentum: "The original goal was to have 20,000 registrations for this call, but that number has more than tripled. What's your reaction? Are you surprised by this level of support that you are seeing for this?" Rocketto boasted they signed up 75,000 "white dudes" for the call and raised $350,000 for the campaign. He insisted they were going to attract "a silent majority of white men out there who are not MAGA supporters." The CNN anchor then turned to Hogg and got him to explain why he thought the upcoming Zoom call would be so important. Then she asked softball question #2: "Why is she so appealing to younger voters compared to how Biden was with the youth vote? Help us understand that, David." Hogg lavished praise on Harris, calling her "authentic," and talked up liberal laws Democrats have succeeded in passing: I'm super, super excited to be part of it -- and just make sure that young people know that we're out here -- that we're listening to them, and we're delivering for them -- whether that's the largest climate spending in human history -- whether that's the first gun law passed in 30 years, student debt cancellation, or so much more.  Getting to her next softball, Brown asked about how perceptions of Vice President Harris have changed since she has become the presumptive Democratic nominee, leading Hogg to pick up on Harris's recent trashing of Republicans as "weird." Here's Hogg: ... they want to be in our exam rooms, they want to be in our bedrooms, and they want to be in, you know, our kids' classrooms and trying to challenge what they can read or not. And it's just weird. It's really weird. Meanwhile, we're out here talking about making sure kids are fed in schools -- making sure that people have health care and that kids aren't dying in schools from gun violence. Still giving no pushback, Brown followed up: "'It's just weird' -- that's the -- that's the buzz line, right, from the Harris campaign? Are you just picking up on that organically or were you told by the Harris campaign to start using that word?" Is this CNN or a DNC chat room? No one can tell the difference. Partial transcript follows: CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta July 29, 2024 10:04 a.m. Eastern PAMELA BROWN, FILL-IN HOST: Well, tonight -- today -- tens of thousands have signed up to participate in what's being described as a White Dudes for Harris video call. That call is tonight. Joining us now to discuss, that call's organizer, Ross Morales Rocketto, and Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg. He'll be participating in this call. Gentlemen, thank you for joining us today. Ross, I want to start with you. As one of the organizers, right, you've got some big Democratic names who are set to be on the Zoom call. You have David Hogg was -- is with us right now. You have Roy Cooper, the former governor of North Carolina. You have Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Congressman Adam Schiff, lots of big names. And, you know, the original goal was to have 20,000 registrations for this call, but that number has more than tripled. What's your reaction? Are you surprised by this level of support that you are seeing for this? ROSS MORALES ROCKETTO, WHITE GUYS FOR HARRIS: I am. I'm surprised and humbled, and also, thanks for having us. Since, you know, I just checked the numbers right before we went on. We're now at 75,000 people who've signed up, and we've raised over $350,000 for the campaign. To be honest, we thought if we were lucky, you know, we sent out a 20,000 number -- we thought if we were lucky, maybe we'd get 10,000 people on. It's been a real groundswell. And I think it represents something really important which is the fact that there is a silent majority of white men out there who are not MAGA supporters. They are not a part of the MAGA Republican party, and they are looking for a place, and they are interested in casting their votes for the Vice President this November. BROWN: David, let's bring you in. I want to note you were on a donor call with VP Harris Friday, if I'm not mistaken. Tell us about that because she was on that call -- I believe you asked a question -- and why do you think it's important to be on this one tonight? DAVID HOGG, THE MARCH FOR OUR LIVES CO-FOUNDER: I think it's important to show we aren't just white dudes for Kamala, but also we're younger white dudes -- we're older white dudes -- we're people of all ages for Kamala. And I also have to note, too, that this would not have been possible -- this was inspired by, you know, following in the footsteps of Black Women for Kamala, which is one of the first calls that was set up. And I was on that National Finance Committee call earlier, and I can just say that the Vice President is fired up, young people are fired up, people of all ages are fired up, and they're donating. Just after it was announced that the Vice President was going to become the nominee, I sent out a challenge to people to raise $1,000 on Twitter in one hour for the Vice President. And not only did we do that, but we ended up raising about $345,000 to support the Vice President from over 6,000 people around the country. So people are fired up, and we're ready to be out there. BROWN: Why is she so appealing to younger voters compared to how Biden was with the youth vote? Help us understand that, David. HOGG: One, I think it's that, because we're constantly seeing her on our social media, and she is authentic, and she is funny, you know. We see her constantly out there talking and people making different edits of her to "Brat" by Charli XCX and other very culturally significant things. ... and especially as well, of course, the President himself. He's been so gracious in this transition and being so supportive of the Vice President. I've never seen so much Democratic unity in my life. You know, it's often said that organizing Democrats is like organizing -- trying to herd cats, but I really feel like we've come together at this moment in a way that I've never seen before, and I'm super excited to be on this White Dudes for Kamala call tonight. And maybe by that call we'll have 100,000 people on there. I don't know, but Ross said if we've already passed 20,000 people and raised 75,000, I think we might be able to get to 100,000 as well, and I'm super, super excited to be part of it -- and just make sure that young people know that we're out here -- that we're listening to them, and we're delivering for them -- whether that's the largest climate spending in human history -- whether that's the first gun law passed in 30 years, student debt cancellation, or so much more. BROWN: Ross, I want to get to you in just a second, but I want to follow up with David here. You're talking about Kamala Harris and the enthusiasm among youth for her. You mentioned, you know, you think she's funny and her appeal now, but I'm wondering, "Did you think that about her before she was announced and endorsed and became essentially the presumptive Democratic nominee? And I ask that what I sense in talking to folks is they had one perception of her when she was VP and a very different perception of her now. What do you think? HOGG: Yeah, I think that, in many senses, is true. I think more than anything, though, when you're the Vice President, obviously you're not getting a lot of the attention, not nearly as much as the President themselves, but now that she is the nominee, a lot of that attention has shifted to her, and it's been to her benefit. And we've seen, too, how the Democratic coalition has really come around her and how we're all feeding off of each other. You know, Governor Tim Walz really started to lead into that idea of, you know, these Republicans just being weird, and talking about that. And we've seen the Kamala Harris campaign -- Vice President Kamala Harris campaign, sorry, really adopt that message and go forward with it. And I think it's true, you know, it's said over and over again, they want to be in our exam rooms, they want to be in our bedrooms, and they want to be in, you know, our kids' classrooms and trying to challenge what they can read or not. And it's just weird. It's really weird. Meanwhile, we're out here talking about making sure kids are fed in schools -- making sure that people have health care and that kids aren't dying in schools from gun violence. BROWN: "It's just weird" -- that's the -- that's the buzz line, right, from the Harris campaign? Are you just picking up on that organically or were you told by the Harris campaign to start using that word? (HOGG)

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