{"id":506134,"date":"2021-02-08T20:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/laura-ingraham\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:42","slug":"laura-ingraham","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/laura-ingraham\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Ingraham"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Claimed that LGBTQ rights activists are child abusers, saying<\/a>, \u201cthe Left has been on the cultural warpath to gender bend our kids into submission.\u201d She said on her podcast that drag queen story hours at libraries and LGBTQ-affirming activities in public schools as \u201cgoing after\u201d kids. \u201cThey need the kids \u2026 without indoctrinating children on a whole variety of issues \u2026 the movement kind of dies out,\u201d and \u201cI think a lot of this is geared toward lowering the age of consent for children, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014During Pride Month in 2019, hosted homophobic and transphobic guests<\/a> on her show, including: Arthur Shaper of anti-LGBTQ hate group MassResistance, who said on her Fox News show that drag queen story hours are \u201cadult illicit entertainment,\u201d \u201cpole dancer story hour\u201d and \u201cporn actor story hour.\u201d A day earlier on her podcast, she hosted Bill Donohue<\/a>, the president of the anti-LGBTQ Catholic League, referred to transgender youth, and educating young people about gender identity, as \u201can assault on nature and on nature\u2019s God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014On her Fox News show, hosted anti-LGBTQ Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick <\/a>who called Democratic presidential candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke \u201clight in the loafers\u201d to suggest that he is gay as a way to smear him.<\/p>\n

\u2014Said on her podcast that transgender people are trying to use social engineering to create a new \u201cpart human, part animal\u201d<\/a> species. \u201cThe hoax that somehow sexes are all the same or capable of being bed into one continuum, that masculinity itself is toxic, terrible, and poisonous, all of those things, and in fact has to be discouraged in many ways,\u201d Ingraham said. And \u201cTheir goal ultimately is the destruction or elimination of the traditional family, though, is it not?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Called it \u201cchild abuse\u201d to provide transgender transition-related health care to transgender youth<\/a>. Ingraham said, “I think it’s child abuse to give children hormone treatments… let the child go through puberty for goodness sakes… I’m sure there are other strategies, other ways to work on this at least without shooting up your kids with hormones, I’m talking about hormone therapy for nine-year-olds for goodness sakes.” Gender-affirming therapy before puberty does not include “shooting them up” with hormone therapy.<\/p>\n

\u2014Linked LGBTQ rights to incest: <\/a>\u201cI think we\u2019ve moved on beyond gay marriage to transgenderism and then maybe polyamory. Maybe some type of incestuous relationship will be validated by the state as long as it\u2019s not consummated. Right? I mean, who knows?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Suggested listeners wear adult diapers in order to avoid restrooms<\/a> with transgender people.<\/p>\n

\u2014Dismissed a transgender high school athlete as \u201cjust more gender bending\u201d<\/a> from \u201cthose who want to mix up the traditional social mores.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Outed fellow students at Dartmouth<\/a> as an editor at the conservative student newspaper. From the 2008 book Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio<\/em>: \u201cShe secretly sent a reporter with a tape recorder to a campus gay students association meeting; she then outed the students in print and sent tapes of the meetings to the students\u2019 parents. In the magazine she called association members \u201ccheerleaders for latent campus sodomites.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Suggested parents of an eight-year-old transgender student should be \u201ckind of embarrassed\u201d <\/a>about seeking fair accommodations at school.<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed a transgender conference was \u201ckilling the culture.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014Called President Obama \u201cEmperor Obama<\/a>\u201d for backing a trans-inclusive military and pushed<\/a> the idea that he was trying to \u201cfundamentally transform America\u201d through his support.<\/p>\n

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