Fox News cites non-peer-reviewed study to fearmonger about number of gender-nonconforming students
Laura Ingraham conflates gender-nonconformity with gender dysphoria in a segment attacking Planned Parenthood
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Citation From the October 11, 2022, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Now Doctor Nesheiwat, Montgomery County, Maryland – it's the state's largest school district – is reporting a drastic increase among gender non-conforming students: a 582% increase between 2019 and 2021. Now, the idea that we're underestimating acute gender dysphoria by 600% in two years is absurd on its face, is it not?
JANETTE NESHEIWAT (CONTRIBUTOR): Yeah, this is not a peer-reviewed study, number one. And this is the exact reason why doctors recommend – good doctors, who understand the oath to do no harm – recommend first-step therapy and counseling, because a lot of it could be underlying anxiety, and depression, and PTSD. That is the root core that must be acknowledged first.
INGRAHAM: And it's suggestive selling in some cases, as well.