The Fox News ecosystem works in mysterious ways. Only weeks ago, Daily Wire columnist Matt Walsh was on the Tucker Carlson Show to promote his new documentary What Is a Woman? The provocative film follows Walsh on a quest to find just one person who can answer the title question for him, to bleakly hilarious effect. Along the way, Walsh encounters academics, therapists, and doctors whose answers are in eerily independent lockstep. These include one blue-haired pediatrician who hymns the praises of “completely reversible” puberty blockers for dysphoric “kiddos” who are “panicking.” During the interview, Carlson paused the clip to note that this is a lie, and such drugs are, in fact, not reversible.
Strange, then, that Tucker Carlson’s network would turn right around and run this profile of a “transitioning” child in honor of Pride month. The story of “Ryland,” a girl whose parents claim she identified as a boy “before [s]he could speak,” is not new. The family came to fame eight years ago when the mother chronicled their journey in the memoir Raising Ryland. Ryland, six years old at the time, is now a teenager whose female puberty has clearly been delayed. Fox bathes her story in a soft rainbow glow of positivity. The mother even cites “faith” as a contributing factor to their decision — the faith that “God created Ryland just the way he is.” She reports that as a toddler, Ryland showed distress at having to wear girls’ dresses, which in hindsight she takes as a significant early clue.
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