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Title: Fox (and Friends) Have Fun at Expense of Brown's Transgender Student Healthcare
Post by: Shana A on February 08, 2013, 01:33:54 PM
Post by: Shana A on February 08, 2013, 01:33:54 PM
Fox (and Friends) Have Fun at Expense of Brown's Transgender Student Healthcare
J.K. Trotter
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/02/brown-sex-reassignment-student-health/61909/ (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/02/brown-sex-reassignment-student-health/61909/)
Conservative outlets are having a field day after the Brown Daily Herald reported that, come August, Brown University will pay for sex reassignment surgeries sought by students covered by the school's student health insurance policy. The decision had been brewing for years, according to a school administrator quoted in the story, and given the aggregate cost of reassignment surgeries — which can approach $50,000 — the move should save transgender students a lot of money.
The folks at Fox and Friends started things off Thursday morning when co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade traded locker-room innuendo about transgendered people:
(Note the chyron: "CONTROVERSIAL OPERATIONS".)
Online outlets continued on this note. Over at the Daily Caller, which aggregated the Daily Herald's story, 100+ commenters expressed their disgust for the news. (Excerpt: "The moral of the story is: Don't date anyone from Brown without reviewing medical records.") At the Washington Times, which aggregated the Daily Caller's aggregation of the Daily Herald story, writer Cheryl K. Chumley asked readers, "Looking for a free sex change operation?" (Her answer: "Enroll at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.") Finally, at the National Review Online, blogger Wesley J. Smith drew a tenuous connection to... Obamacare: "Brown is a private college so it should be free to do as it pleases. But does anybody think that one day Obamacare won't cover the costs associated with sex reassignment?"
Title: Re: Fox (and Friends) Have Fun at Expense of Brown's Transgender Student Healthcare
Post by: Jamie D on February 11, 2013, 04:32:24 AM
Post by: Jamie D on February 11, 2013, 04:32:24 AM
There was no "locker room innuendo" in the clip. Dishonest reporting of the story does not help our cause.