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> Disney is a homosexual pedophile factory.

Astory by Disney-owned ABC News that profiled families leaving red states
over their transgender surgery laws, including one set of parents who
claimed they knew their child was transgendered at age 3, has generated
significant discussion and criticism since its publication on Sunday.

ABC News reported on a Texas couple who said their three-year-old son �
now aged seven � announced "I'm a girl person" and asked at that point to
be their daughter, coincidentally on "National Daughters Day." The couple
is leaving Texas because of the state announcing its intention to pursue
child abuse investigations against people who seek "gender-affirming care"
for their children.

"Her family is not alone. Across the country, advocacy groups say some
families are packing up and moving out of their home states that have
implemented anti-LGBTQ legislation to get to a place with greater
protections for the community, according to queer advocacy groups
nationwide," ABC News reported.

The story also touted Washington state as a "safe space" for LGBTQ
families from states like Texas under Gov. Gregg Abbott, R., and Florida,
which recently banned gender transitions for minors, under Gov. Ron
DeSantis, R.

The story also linked to a March 2023 piece from ABC News about
"transgender youth care," which overwhelmingly cited voices favorable to
"gender-affirming care." The article noted it does "not come without risk"
but the "risks are often outweighed by the benefits."

That Disney, the media and entertainment behemoth with whom DeSantis has
clashed publicly for the past year, is ABC's parent wasn't lost on his
2024 presidential campaign. It responded to the story by issuing what it
called a warning to everyone "from woke corporations to corporate media"
if they "carry water for activists who want to push gender transitions on
children."

"Governor DeSantis has led the way in protecting children from harmful
mutilation in the name of radical gender ideology," press secretary Bryan
Griffin told Fox News Digital. "No leader in America has done more on this
issue. It is illegal in Florida to perform sex changes on children or give
them chemical hormone or puberty blocker treatments for gender dysphoria.
No matter if he has to fight the Biden Administration, deep-pocketed
advocacy groups, or woke corporations, Governor DeSantis will always stand
up for families and children in the face of the left�s gender ideology
onslaught."

The story itself took on a sharply negative tone toward DeSantis and other
conservatives who have passed legislation that has angered the LGBTQ
community, and it also raised eyebrows with its credulous reporting on the
young transgender girl featured in the story whose parents asserted was
wise beyond her years.

"It is generally considered good journalism to provide a human perspective
to a particular topic, but there is a difference between humanizing a
story and giving sympathetic portrayals," DePauw University journalism
professor Jeffrey McCall told Fox News Digital. "The media should be
careful to not exploit individual children in order to make broader
cultural statements. That is the concern here for ABC's profile of a
seven-year-old child. Legislative activity in a number of states regarding
this topic makes the matter newsworthy, but ABC's profile of the young
child comes off as advocacy, rather than a broader journalistic effort to
cover a multi-faceted topic."

Conservative media critics also took aim at the story.

"It's sickening," the Media Research Center's Curtis Houck told Fox News
Digital. "This is a purposeful attempt by Disney-owned ABC to groom
children who have any number of concerns with school as well as feelings,
thoughts or hobbies that can change in an instant. The liberal media have
generally made zero attempt to present a counterargument because doing
anything except encouraging young kids to change teams is treated as some
cardinal sin."

"ABC pushing this is an attempt to change cultural norms in a very
negative way," comedian Tim Young told Fox News Digital. "Stories like
these should not be covered with any sense of legitimacy and should be
called out for how absurd and dangerous they are."

Seattle radio host Jason Rantz quipped that if people always took the
feelings of three-year-olds as "serious and permanent, we'd have a lot of
cowboys and superheroes as adults."

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"There's no such thing as a transgender 3-year-old unless the child is
being told how to think and why they should think a certain way. There is
not even the understanding of the concept of being transgender or even
one's sexuality at that age. A boy wanting to wear a dress is learned
behavior, but also not indicative of any specific gender identity," Rantz
said. "We rightly acknowledge they have no worldview to determine what
their adult profession would be as a child; yet we're pretending they
understand the nuances of gender identity?"

LGBTQ advocate Heather Hester praised ABC News for spotlighting the child
in particular, however, saying the piece also showed "how dangerous and
destructive this legislation is and the effect it is having on real
people."

"Yes, a 3-year-old can be transgender," she told Fox News Digital. "Think
of gender identity as who you are on the inside. This is something all
children inherently know from very young. There have been transgender and
gender-diverse people throughout history. The fact that it seems like
there are more people of all ages speaking their truth about their
identity shows the depth of connection, safety, and trust - between parent
and child. Allowing for curiosity, conversation, and expression is one of
the most loving things a parent can do. No government official - or any
other outside voice - should ever think they have the right to supersede
that relationship."

ABC News didn't reply to a request for comment.

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