YouTube allows ‘Bad Faith’ and Glenn Greenwald to circulate anti-trans misinformation

Far-right rage-tweeter Glenn Greenwald disseminated anti-trans misinformation about hormone blockers on Bad Faith, a YouTube channel owned by Briahna Joy Gray, falsely alleging that “there are people who got convinced by healthcare workers or online spaces to be misdiagnosed as something they’re not.”

A long-term study of 85 gender-nonconforming children by psychologist Kristina Olson, was published in The Atlantic, stating, “That those who go on to transition do so because they already have a strong sense of their identity.”

In reality, trans children know their gender identities early in life, as early as 2 to 5, the American Psychological Association reports.

Greenwald misinformed that best practice medical care for transgender youth has “permanent life-altering treatments whether it’s hormonal or even surgical.”

Media Matters reported that best practice medical care is a safe, life-saving treatment that is effective, and is encouraged by medical experts. There are multiple requirements for undergoing best practice medical care:

• Show a long-lasting and intense pattern of gender nonconformity or gender dysphoria
• Have gender dysphoria that began or worsened at the start of puberty
• Address any psychological, medical or social problems that could interfere with treatment
• Provide informed consent

From CNN: With this therapy, doctors can inject a compound or use an implant that mimics the actions of a puberty-stimulating hormone that is released in the brain known as gonadotropin-releasing hormone. The compound makes the pituitary gland less sensitive to that hormone and, in doing so, it essentially pauses puberty. It’s a noninvasive process that can be reversed. Puberty starts again after the drugs are stopped.

Failing to take hormone blockers in conjunction with parents not affirming their child’s gender identity results in higher rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide.

“There’s certainly no shortage of pro-trans articles in the liberal press,” Greenwald lamented. “You can pick up the Huffington Post or Buzzfeed or the New York Times. Any of them, any week ,and you’re going to find articles about the difficulties that trans people face.”

But a report revealed that there was a dearth of coverage of record-breaking anti-trans violence in 2020, and local media serially misgendered victims, often uncritically echoing police reports.

The video on Bad Faith is monetized despite YouTube’s alleged policy prohibiting content “promoting violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on Sex/Gender.”

“The minute you declare yourself nonbinary or trans, you catapult up the ladder of oppression that absolutely confers concrete benefits,” the frequently anti-trans Greenwald falsely claimed in March, as he hosted notorious TERF Katie Herzog on his YouTube show.

The video was widely mocked online.

“Am I supposed to treat furries as this sort of queer marginalized identity and now I can no longer make fun of them because they have sex with Tony the Tiger costumes on?” Herzog asked, directing hate at Furries.

During the program, Greenwald and Herzog wrongly claimed there’s tension between the trans and lesbian community, clearly as a ploy to foment resentment among trans and lesbian people, and Herzog baselessly fearmongered about trans athletes in women sports.

From the ACLU: “A person’s genetic make-up and internal and external reproductive anatomy are not useful indicators of athletic performance,”according to Dr. Joshua D. Safer. “For a trans woman athlete who meets NCAA standards, “there is no inherent reason why her physiological characteristics related to athletic performance should be treated differently from the physiological characteristics of a non-transgender woman.”

Greenwald also misgendered trans men as “more masculine girls or tomboys,” and defended transphobic Substack writer Jesse Singal, while attacking Glaad for reporting on Singal’s bigotry.