Headlines Are So Important

They pull in your audience and make them at least look over the article, it also sets the tone of the article; what do you think story is about? “Oregon allowing 15-year-olds to get state-subsidized sex-change operations”

Well the headline isn’t true and the article is even worst…

The list of things 15-year-olds are not legally allowed to do in Oregon is long: Drive, smoke, donate blood, get a tattoo -- even go to a tanning bed.

But, under a first-in-the-nation policy quietly enacted in January that many parents are only now finding out about, 15-year-olds are now allowed to get a sex-change operation. Many residents are stunned to learn they can do it without parental notification -- and the state will even pay for it through its Medicaid program, the Oregon Health Plan.

"It is trespassing on the hearts, the minds, the bodies of our children," said Lori Porter of Parents' Rights in Education. "They're our children. And for a decision, a life-altering decision like that to be done unbeknownst to a parent or guardian, it's mindboggling."

Reading the article you would think that 15-year-olds are having Gender Confirming Surgery (GCS) but it is not true, there are medical guidelines that prevent that. The article goes on to say,

According to a 2008 study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, "most children with gender dysphoria will not remain gender dysphoric after puberty."

Dr. Paul McHugh, who led the Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Department and still practices, said Oregon's policy amounts to child abuse. "We have a very radical and even mutilating treatment being offered to children without any evidence that the long-term outcome of this would be good," McHugh said.

And you think Wow! The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry thinks that! Well that was taken out on context. This is its position...

The position of the WPATH, American Psychiatric Association (APA), and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is that therapy with a gender atypical child should allow their gender identity to unfold without trying to influence the outcome one way or the other.

Media Matters had this to say about the Fox News article,

A segment on Fox News' Special Report attacked a law in Oregon that allows transgender individuals to receive medical treatments according to their gender identification by calling teens who can seek the treatment "fickle" and falsely claiming that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has labeled being transgender, known as gender dysphoria, as a mental disorder. But studies show that medical care for transgender individuals is important for their mental health and the APA stopped classifying gender dysphoria as a mental disorder in 2012.

Here is the hatchet job video…