Daily Wire hit piece smearing AZ Gov candidate Hobbs' child therapist husband for work w/trans kids

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New: In Arizona, Republican candidate Kari Lake's closing message is the most vile, desperate attack I have seen. With the help of the Daily Wire and Charlie Kirk, she's attacking Katie Hobbs for the crime of being married to a trauma therapist with a trans patient.
I cannot exaggerate how despicable this attack from Kari Lake is. Are therapists now supposed to refuse care to trans people? Sick, twisted, and pathetic. She should never show her face in public for the rest of her life.

Story by @lawton_sophie:

A Daily Wire hit piece smearing Arizona gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs’ husband’s work with trans youth has spread across right-wing media
https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/daily-wire-hit-piece-smearing-arizona-gubernatorial-candidate-katie-hobbs-husbands-work

I cover right wing media narratives about LGBTQ people for a living. It takes a lot to shock me. But this did. Think for a moment of the implications of attacking a trauma therapist for even working with a trans person. They are not even hiding that they would prefer that we die.

Anti-trans people go on and on about how they supposedly care SO much about people with gender dysphoria, it's just that they think it's a mental illness. So who do you go to if you have a mental illness? You go to a therapist, like Katie Hobbs' husband.

Kari Lake is an election denier with links to Nazi sympathizers and the QAnon movement. She will do and say anything in her bid for power. She has never hid exactly who and what she is.

CBS’ Face The Nation lets notorious election denier and Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake misinform about elections
https://www.mediamatters.org/face-nation/cbs-face-nation-lets-notorious-election-denier-and-arizona-gubernatorial-candidate-kari

Kari Lake also seems likely to win on Tuesday. And that's completely unacceptable. She is a dangerous liar and an extremist who is willing to inflict any pain on her most vulnerable constituents if it means she gets to live in the Governor's mansion.

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https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/governor/2022/arizona/

Lake is not alone in attacking trans people in the days remaining before the midterms. JD Vance is doing it. Blake Masters is doing it. Ron DeSantis has made it a full-time job. If somebody's campaign message rests on attacking us, it's because they have nothing to offer.
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https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/daily-wire-hit-piece-smearing-arizona-gubernatorial-candidate-katie-hobbs-husbands-work

Far-right website The Daily Wire published a story on November 3 attacking Democratic Arizona gubernatorial nominee Katie Hobbs’ husband, Patrick Goodman, for reportedly treating a transgender patient at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Goodman is a mental health therapist specializing in youth trauma therapy, according to the hospital’s website.

The Daily Wire piece claims Goodman’s name is “listed on an undated document as a provider in the hospital’s ‘gender support program’ serving ‘gender diverse’ and transgender youth.” It also identifies Goodman as a therapist to one of several trans children whose families sued the state of Arizona for not allowing changes to their birth certificates. (Litigation in the case is still ongoing.) The article admonished Goodman for his work and smeared Hobbs for supporting “sex change surgeries for minors” during her campaign for Arizona governor.

Phoenix Children’s Hospital has previously been targeted by right-wing media, including The Daily Wire, for offering lifesaving gender-affirming care to trans patients. The Phoenix hospital also came under fire from The Daily Wire for supposedly removing references to the team and resources for the Gender Support Program from its website. The hospital’s gender-affirming care programs were also targeted by the anti-LGBTQ account “Libs of TikTok” run by Chaya Raichik, who joined The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh and other far-right influencers in directing a campaign against children’s hospitals across the country.

Following the story's release, other right-wing media figures began to share the smears as an attack against Hobbs’ campaign. Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk tweeted about Goodman’s work and claimed, “The Hobbs Family is profiting off of the brain washing of Arizona's children. Wow.”

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Extremist monsters.

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1. I enjoy historical fiction, especially native American lore

People born male that lived and identified as female were thought to have special powers and insights in many tribes.

It’s a shame how some have regressed.

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