NBC spent a great amount of time recently promoting the transgender lifestyle for both adults and children.
The network’s Parminder Deo touted a Pediatrics study that concluded that if kids live openly as transgender with supportive families they experience no abnormal anxiety and depression.
“Support and acceptance” is the key, Deo said.
The study, however, led by Kristina Olson of the University of Washington was conducted using questionable methods.
It surveyed 73 kids aged 3 to 12 and simply asked parents whether their kids had shown symptoms of depression or anxiety during the past week.
Transgender kids’ anxiety score averaged only 0.1 over the national norm on a National Institutes of Health scale.
Merely asking parents whether their children have exhibited adverse symptoms is not particularly compelling as a valid test of the benefits of being openly transgender.
Would any parent who already believes raising his child this way is beneficial notice or report anything to the contrary? A more thorough method would be to observe the children themselves especially during and after puberty.
However, NBC rushed to report the study as proof that transitioning early is healthier for both parents and kids.
NBC quoted three psychologists all in favor of children being raised transgender, ignoring prominent names like Dr. Paul R. McHugh, former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry.
McHugh said that transgenderism is a “mental disorder” and that sex change is “biologically impossible.” People who promote it as normal are encouraging a psychological disorder, he said.
The network has promoted similar stories of other transgender kids including Jacob, who transitioned at 5 from a girl to a boy and Malisa, 8 from a boy to girl. Evie Priestman’s parents began to raise her as a boy at 4 years old because she “only wanted crewcut hairstyles and boy's clothing.” Now she’s a teen who removed her breasts, stopped her menstrual cycle, went to a boys’ sleepaway camp, and injects herself with testosterone every week.
