GLAAD released a statement on Sunday calling out CBS’s 60 minutes program for running a segment that “wrongfully implied that trans YouTubers and online communities which affirm trans youth are somehow brainwashing kids and turning them trans.” “That is dangerous and at the same time ridiculous,” GLAAD said in a statement calling out the segment that ran under the title ‘Transgender Healthcare.’ “Aren’t we past arguing that media can turn people gay or trans?” The 14-minute segment opened by discussing Arkansas’s ban on transgender minors receiving gender-affirming care.
Journalist Lesley Stahl began by noting that major medical associations have come out forcefully against laws like this one and that there are “decades” of research