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PBS Accuses Trump of 'Vilifying' Transgender People
On PBS’s Friday edition of Amanpour and Company, guest host Bianna Golodryga didn’t bother to even pretend to care about journalistic standards as she interviewed the ACLU’s Chase Strangio about President Trump and red states allegedly “vilifying” transgender people.
Golodryga kicked off the show by proclaiming, “Donald Trump came back into office nearly a year ago, determined to change the face of America and doing a slew of Biden's policies and approaches to issues, including trans rights. The U.S. president has made no secret of his lack of sympathy for trans people, vilifying the small population and calling into question their very existence.”
She then played a clip of Trump on December 9 characterizing the left’s approach to the issue, “Transgender for all is a great, great thing for the Democrats to be talking about. Transgender for every member in your family, if they're not feeling well that night, let's just change their sex.”
Throughout the nearly 17-minute segment, it could be hard to remember that Golodryga was supposed to be the host and not the activist as she responded, “Many red states are following suit, passing more and more anti-trans bills, attempting to restrict their legal and medical rights. LGBTQ activists and allies are deeply concerned about a White House so laser focused on targeting this group, especially given trans people, particularly trans youth, are at heightened risk of suicidal thoughts and attempts.”
Later, Golodryga asked Strangio one of the softest questions ever, “We've heard enormous political rhetoric, advertisements made. The president has spoken about this, but not just the president, a number of politicians about trans athletes in particular. Yet, NCAA data shows that fewer than 10 out of 510,000 athletes are transgender. What does that gap between reality and rhetoric tell you about how this issue is being used politically?”
Putting aside the fact that it is also high school athletics, what matters is the principle. Similar percentages of NBA players or MLB umpires bet on games, but sports leagues have a zero-tolerance policy for gambling because it takes just one bad actor to create the appearance of a scam and ruin it for everyone else.
Nevetheless, Strangio told Golodryga what she wanted to hear, “I think what this tells us is that we are being sold a story of transgender people as a group to fear, when the reality is, is that we are a group that is almost nowhere impacting other people's lives, and we're just trying to live our own lives.”
Strangio tried to pretend to be a simple libertarian who wants to be left alone, but is actually a radical “constitutional lawyer who fundamentally doesn’t believe in the Constitution” and feels that other LGBTQ activists were too committed to the “fundamentally violent institution of civil marriage.”
Still, Strangio applied the same argument to other issues, “And a similar story is true with respect to access to medical care for transgender people. You have about 2,000 young people receiving puberty blockers in this country to treat gender dysphoria. And yet, you have this sense, this outsized fixation of a problem that is really about families making decisions, informed decisions for their children, parents who know their children best.”
Golodryga’s pep talk with Strangio comes amid a flurry of PBS transgeder activism as the administration announced it will not provide Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement payments to hospitals that perform so-called “gender-affirming care.” Yet, PBS still thinks it should receive taxpayer money.
Here is a transcript for the December 19 show:
PBS Amanpour and Company
12/19/2025
BIANNA GOLODRYGA: Donald Trump came back into office nearly a year ago, determined to change the face of America and doing a slew of Biden's policies and approaches to issues, including trans rights. The U.S. president has made no secret of his lack of sympathy for trans people, vilifying the small population and calling into question their very existence.
DONALD TRUMP [DECEMBER 9]: Transgender for all is a great, great thing for the Democrats to be talking about. Transgender for every member in your family, if they're not feeling well that night, let's just change their sex.
GOLODRYGA: Many red states are following suit, passing more and more anti-trans bills, attempting to restrict their legal and medical rights. LGBTQ activists and allies are deeply concerned about a White House so laser focused on targeting this group, especially given trans people, particularly trans youth, are at heightened risk of suicidal thoughts and attempts.
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GOLODRYGA: Yes. And we've heard enormous political rhetoric, advertisements made. The president has spoken about this, but not just the president, a number of politicians about trans athletes in particular. Yet, NCAA data shows that fewer than 10 out of 510,000 athletes are transgender. What does that gap between reality and rhetoric tell you about how this issue is being used politically?
CHASE STRANGIO: I think what this tells us is that we are being sold a story of transgender people as a group to fear, when the reality is, is that we are a group that is almost nowhere impacting other people's lives, and we're just trying to live our own lives.
There are fewer than 10 NCAA athletes and yet we -- who are transgender. And yet, we see hundreds of millions of dollars targeting transgender people, making people afraid of trans participation in sports. And the reality is that, in some states, there are more bills targeting trans athletes than there are trans athletes. That is a huge gap between the story we're being told and the reality on the ground.
And a similar story is true with respect to access to medical care for transgender people. You have about 2,000 young people receiving puberty blockers in this country to treat gender dysphoria. And yet, you have this sense, this outsized fixation of a problem that is really about families making decisions, informed decisions for their children, parents who know their children best.
So, I think what we're seeing, if you take a step back and look at the facts, is that we are being sold a set of lies about the trans community, with a huge amount of money being put into those lies. And that is impacting what people experience of trans life, when, really, we're just a small population trying to survive.
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