(2021-05-26) 60 Minutes Hit With Backlash From Lgbtq Advocates For Detransition Report

‘60 Minutes’ hit with backlash from LGBTQ advocates for detransition report. “60 Minutes” is hardly regarded as a bastion of conservative advocacy, but the long-running CBS news program has come under fire from the left for its segment on transgender health care that included those seeking to reverse the transition process.

The LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD blasted the Sunday episode as “shameful” and “fearmongering,” while Chase Strangio, American Civil Liberties Union deputy director for transgender justice, called it “part of the anti-trans playbook.”

The 14-minute episode began with criticism of the Arkansas bill prohibiting gender-transition treatment for minors, which was signed into law in April, and an interview with gender psychologist Erica Anderson who called the bill “a very ominous development.”

A few minutes later, however, the segment shifted to claims about lax standards in the booming gender-transition field, as well as interviews with young “detransitioners,” those who transitioned to the opposite sex but then transitioned back.