The subject line of the PBS email read: “How a trans youth care ban affects this family.” Inside was an essay based on a PBS News Hour segment on the travails of a transgender teen from Texas, after a new state law forbid “gender-affirming” medication that will somehow transform teenage girl Rhyan into a boy.
The plight of “transgender” teenagers in Texas are the new specialty subject of PBS’s White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez, who doesn’t seem to have much to do on that beat these days. Her fawning story on Wednesday was awful. The newsletter version, “compiled by Joshua Barajas,” was worse.
Growing restrictions on the rights of transgender Americans in states across the U.S. have forced many families with trans loved ones to make difficult decisions.
Forty-five bills focused on restricting rights for trans people — across…
