Canada’s “mainstream media” plays a direct role in promoting positive perceptions of medical gender transitions, despite evidence that the practice adversely affects the lives and health of young people, a new report suggests.
Most of the largest media outlets in Canada portray these interventions as “gender-affirming care” that is evidence-based, medically essential, and life-saving when they can actually take a heavy physical and emotional toll on youth, according to a report from Ottawa think tank the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI).
