{"id":72606,"date":"2017-06-07T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72606"},"modified":"2017-06-07T10:49:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:49:47","slug":"the-medias-obsession-with-deviance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72606","title":{"rendered":"The media’s obsession with deviance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone sent us this story from the Miami Herald<\/a> which found space in it’s fish wrap to answer the public’s question that it never asked. A first time visiting reporter to Guantanamo asked a newly-posted Navy doctor if he’d perform gender reassignment surgery on a Guantanamo detainee. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnything that a detainee requests from a medical standpoint, we will consider,\u201d said the North Carolina-licensed family medicine physician, who goes by Cmdr. SMO 2. \u201cYou know, we haven\u2019t gotten there. But it is 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n

The doctor said that gender transition was not on the list of scenarios that Detention Center leadership was considering in its long-range healthcare needs for a population of 41 prisoners, who range in age from the mid-30s to almost 70.<\/p>\n

But if it came up, \u201cthat\u2019s something I would have to address with the patient individually, figure out what needs we would have to do to meet that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, no one is asking for the procedure so why are you asking? <\/p>\n

Of course, the reporter was fishing for something for which they could feign outrage. He\/she was hoping that the doctor would tell him\/her “Nope, we don’t do that here” so they could launch into an editorial tirade about the anti-deviant military and it’s mistreatment of detainees. Instead, it turned into a big nothing-burger 20-paragraph article about how they don’t have an article. It’s probably Trump’s fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone sent us this story from the Miami Herald which found space in it’s fish wrap … The media’s obsession with deviance<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}