Misinformation

Lies, lies, and more lies.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

The Republicans are good at that… telling lies.

Misinformation from the right is distorting Texas court ruling in child gender case | Opinion
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
By Cynthia M. Allen
January 7, 2023


If one word could encapsulate the mood of social (and often mainstream) media in 2022, it might be misinformation. It was the primary insult lobbed at anyone who shared anything contrary to the prevailing (usually politically liberal) narrative. And it was the charge, we now know, used to keep many people from participating on social media platforms such as Twitter, even when their “crime” was sharing data, science or opinions that have since been vindicated as fact or at least deemed uncontroversial.

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But that doesn’t mean that conservatives aren’t sometimes responsible for propagating bad information on social media, even in cases that are harmful to their own political ends.

Naw, the Republicans would never tell lies for votes… right?

A family bad divorce lead the mother to take their trans child to California from Texas and is now a court battle between states.

The move is significant because California has just enacted a law to provide “refuge for trans kids and their families” from other states’ restrictions on child gender modification. Younger has been embroiled in a longtime dispute with ex-wife Anne Georgulas over the future and care of their twins. Georgulas contends that one of them identifies as a trans female called “Luna.”

The father ran unsuccessfully for Texas House last year, you want to guess on which party’s ticket?

And this is where the “lies” come in.

Poorly reported stories of the court’s decision circulated and were retweeted by high-profile conservatives on social media, many of whom offered disparaging commentary about the decision. “Woke judges!” they claimed. But it seemed clear in almost every case that the tweet purveyors hadn’t bothered to read the decision. Otherwise, they would have realized that Younger’s characterization of Texas judges and the related stories were, if not misinformation, at least bad information. The court states quite plainly that Younger has already secured a binding lower court order that prevents Georgulas from procuring medical transition therapies for their child (even out of state) and that she has further represented that she does not intend to use California’s new law to do so.

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A second footnote expresses concern over Younger’s refusal to see either of his children in over a year “despite abundant opportunities to do so.”

A really caring father!

Yet he wants to but into their lives and prevent the child from transitioning.