This past Saturday on far-right propaganda outlet One America “News” Network’s Weekly Briefing, host Chanel Rion (who replaced the show’s previous host Christina Bobb due to Bobb’s recent departure from the network) went on an unhinged anti-LGBTQ+ rant baselessly labeling President Joe Biden (D) the “groomer-in-chief” over his appointment of Ketanji Brown Jackson to SCOTUS (who was smeared with QAnon-linked garbage falsely painting her as “pro-pedophile” by right-wing media and GOP politicians) and support for LGBTQ+ rights (especially his Administration’s 2022 TDOV proclamation that has a section focused on trans kids and their health care and his criticism of anti-trans laws/bills rightfully calling them “hateful”).
In her extremely hateful spiel attacking LGBTQ+ identity, Rion wrongly equated gender-affirming health care for trans kids with “genital mutilation” and “child abuse.” Gender-affirming health care for trans kids is facing massive attacks in red states such as Texas.
A host on far-right cable channel OAN called President Joe Biden the “groomer-in-chief,” the natural culmination of the work Republican senators started in earnest during Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings.
“Biden is the groomer-in-chief,” said host Chanel Rion last weekend, first reported by Media Matters. “He’s open to the language of fellow groomers, but sympathy for groomers only enables them further. Look at their newly nominated Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, America’s queen of child porn apologists.”
But about all that manophobia, hatred, gender confusion and blame! Rion went on her OAN show, which exists, and had some real fightin' words for Joe Biden, AKA the "groomer-in-chief," and also a bunch more fightin' words for transgender people and trans kids and a whole bunch of other stuff. It was exactly the kind of stream-of-consciousness babbling you'd expect from a journalist as esteemed as Rion.
CHANEL RION (HOST): It's tempting to feel sorry for old Joe. Don't. Your sympathy is grounded in your remnant memories of sweet old grandpa. Joe Biden isn't your sweet old grandpa. Everyone gets old, even perverts.
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Biden is the groomer-in-chief. He's open to the language of fellow groomers, but sympathy for groomers only enable them further. Look at their newly nominated Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, America's queen of child porn apologists.
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But the “Jeffrey Epstein killed himself," pro-pedophile media fully backs this pro-grooming position.
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Don't be fooled by their wordplay. Their true motive isn't about protecting the gender identities of children. This is about satisfying their own warped perversions. And if you want to take it a layer deeper, it's about canceling reproduction. This is population control. Sterilize your children, abort your babies, discourage nuclear families, and encourage non-reproducing unions.
Don't let them get away with this. Don't let them get away with terms like gender-affirming health care for children. Call it what it is: gender mutilation and child abuse illegal under current U. S law. Don't give them an inch in the language wars. As this issue illustrates, lose the language war, lose our children. And that's my opening argument.
J. David Goodman at NYT explaining how gender-affirming health care works:
Major medical groups — along with transgender advocates — back what is known as gender-affirming care, which involves supporting a child’s gender identity and social transition, often through clothes or a name. Such care can also eventually include puberty-blockers or hormone treatments, though genital surgery is not typically recommended for children. While acknowledging some uncertainty and risk, they cite evidence that the approach can improve children’s mental health and reduce suicide.
Opponents — including some large conservative organizations — argue that children are too young to decide for themselves and must be shielded from potentially life-altering treatments that have only recently gained broader acceptance among the medical community.