{"id":152482,"date":"2021-05-06T19:33:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T19:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9021132"},"modified":"2021-05-06T19:33:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T19:33:52","slug":"in-media-framing-trans-kids-are-problems-to-be-solved-not-people-with-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/06\/in-media-framing-trans-kids-are-problems-to-be-solved-not-people-with-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"In Media Framing, Trans Kids Are Problems to Be Solved\u2014Not People With Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As states continue to pass laws that dehumanize and endanger transgender kids, the country’s most influential newspapers have not met the challenge of covering the issue. Across the country, 36 states have introduced or passed 127 bills<\/a> that discriminate against trans kids, including barring trans kids from playing on the sports team that corresponds with their gender, and criminalizing or impeding providing gender-affirming healthcare for them.<\/p>\n The right-wing movement behind these bills has tried to frame the story as a political debate over science and protecting the vulnerable\u2014in the case of the sports bills, the vulnerable cisgender girls who would supposedly be harmed by competing with and against transgender girls; in the case of the bills prohibiting gender-affirming healthcare, the vulnerable trans children who might make the “wrong<\/a>” decisions about their bodies.<\/p>\n