Consider this headline: “Minnesota Mom Sues Her Own Transgender Daughter For Transitioning." Sound at all biased? That's probably because it is.
It all started here: in June of 2015, Annmarie Calgaro’s 15-year-old son moved in with his biological father, who ended up in prison. After bouncing around between other relatives and friends, he eventually received help from a non-profit legal group called Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid to file paperwork to become legally emancipated.
Calagro, who claimed she was never told her son was even filing for emancipation, was then notified that her parental rights over the teenager had been terminated.
She then found out that her son, who identifies as a girl, had begun the process of medically transitioning from a male to a female.
Calgaro said in a press conference, “I couldn’t get any information regarding my son. Even the school refused to allow me access to his records.”
But it was the school and other St. Louis County officials who were giving the teen, referred to as “E.J.K.” in court documents, access to hormone therapy to begin transitioning.
In November of last year, Calgaro filed a lawsuit against her son, along with local health clinics and county agencies, saying she'd been denied her parental rights when no one notified her of her son's hormone therapy.
On May 23, a U.S. District Court dismissed Calgaro’s suit, citing a Minnesota statute that allows emancipated minors to manage their own financial and medical needs. Calagro and her attorneys argued that her parental rights were violated when she did not receive notice that her son was seeking to emancipate himself from her care.
The media coverage of this case has been anything but objective. Of course, LGBT and other left-leaning outlets present Calgaro as a villain hell-bent on preventing her child from living a fulfilling life, rather than a mother who's concerned about her teenage son making life-changing medical decisions without her involvement. LGBTQ Nation's article even quips, “In every instance, attorneys and the mother herself misgendered her child...referring to her only as her son, as a boy, and using male pronouns.”
Reports from the Daily Mail and NBC both bring up alleged, but so far unsubstantiated, claims that the child was abused after coming out as gay at the age of 13. The right-leaning Heat Street's story is an anomaly -- it refers to the male teen as “she,” yet treats Calgaro more sympathetically as “[losing] a legal battle” for her son.
Different pronouns and a whirlwind of bias-oozing accusations make it difficult to figure out what the heck is going on in this story. However, it is very clear who the liberal media is siding with.
Hint: it's never the mom.