It's June, so it’s natural that PBS would kick off “Pride Month” by broadcasting a completely one-sided interview condemning Trump’s “horrific” actions directed at the T in LGBT. On PBS “News,” transgenderism is almost always celebrated and defended. Somehow, it's not one side of an ideological battle. The Left thinks there's just glorious LGBTQ orthodoxy, and there are hateful bigots who don't deserve any air time.
Here's how Sunday's PBS News Weekend kicked off the show with openly gay anchorman John Yang:
JOHN YANG: And World Pride celebrations underway in the nation`s capital in the shadow of Trump administration policies targeting the community.
JUNE CRENSHAW, Capital Pride Alliance: The Trump administration wants us to disappear and really showing up for World Pride is a direct "No" to that request.
The half-hour show concluded with the pro-Pride package, which began like this:
JOHN YANG: WorldPride, the international LGBTQ plus celebration is underway in Washington, D.C. against the backdrop of the Trump administration rolling back LGBTQ rights and protections, particularly for transgender people. The co-creator of the ACLU's "Freedom to Be" campaign, which advocates for trans people's rights, says that makes the event all the more significant.
GILLIAN BRANSTETTER, ACLU: There is nothing that Donald Trump has done or can do to LGBT people that we have not faced before. We have to show up for one another and show that, no, the power actually lives with us, the people. And if, you know, he wants us sitting in our home, scrolling on our phones, terrified of what will come next, I think what`s important for us to do is remember that courage is contagious.
PBS is clearly part of the contagion of "courage." You can see that this year's "Pride" parades are anti-Trump, carrying banners saying "WE RESIST." There wasn't even a sentence of opposition from Team Trump or anyone else opposed to the transgender agenda.
Yang interviewed June Crenshaw of the Capital Pride Alliance about "what's happened with the second Trump administration" changing their triumphant tone, since they all imagined President Harris waving the LGBTQ flag. Crenshaw used the word "horrific" twice to describe Trump's actions:
CRENSHAW: We certainly expected for WorldPride to be a different celebration. And since the Trump administration, we've had to pivot and really go back to our roots when Prides were protests, and to really shift to an advocacy type of approach, but not forgetting the fact that we needed to build unity and community and also experience joy.
We weren't prepared for the swiftness of these real horrific actions towards members of our community and really are having to adjust to the new circumstances. And again, Washington, D.C. is a perfect place for this because it`s a place where resistance occurs, activism occurs, but also progress.
When Yang asked about the prospect of "transgender people" worrying about their safety in Trump's Washington, that's where Crenshaw talked about "the Trump administration wants us to disappear." When Yang's last question was about what she hoped would occur, Crenshaw answered:
CRENSHAW: That we are a strong, resilient group, that we`ve navigated this before, that there`s opportunities for us, you know, again, to show unity, to come together, to develop an agenda of fighting back, that there should be strategies around protecting the most vulnerable members of our community that are losing rights, the ability to serve in the military and a whole sundry of other things that are happening.
We are here. We're not going anywhere. And we need to come together and fight back all the horrific laws and the ways in which our community is being targeted.
JOHN YANG: June Crenshaw, thank you very much.
JUNE CRENSHAW: Thank you.
Just imagine how much the Left would hate it if Crenshaw would have to debate a conservative on how unpopular the transgender agenda is. PBS would never allow it.
