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Trans woman activist Dylan Mulvaney did a happy-go-lucky softball interview tour to promote the book "Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer." The "mainstream" media are out of the mainstream on trans issues, and their extreme fawning and flattery only underlines it.

On "CBS Mornings," correspondent Natalie Morales sounded like a supporter: "What do you want people to see and know about you?"

"I would ask them to please not make it harder for us," Mulvaney said. "I am now realizing that this is life or death, you know, for a lot of people."

They routinely play the suicide card. When the Bud Light ad campaign with Mulvaney tanked their sales, Mulvaney said, "It resulted in a lot of suicidal ideation."

Dissent equals death. It's not subtle. Extreme fragility is their superpower.

When the softball bucket was empty, CBS co-host Gayle King put on her Oprah pose: "We live in a society today where there are things that are different, and we need to at least make an effort to understand and embrace that." Embrace the libertine Left. That's their command.

On ABC's "The View," it was the same game. The Bud Light fiasco -- "Beergate" -- displayed dangerous conservative backlash. Co-host Sara Haines summarized: "There were angry protests, denouncing the brand. The company got bomb threats. You were the lead topic on conservative media for months. It became known as one of the biggest boycotts in American history. Now, what people didn't see with all this backlash, it caused you to have suicidal ideations."

Mulvaney responded: "What brings me the most joy is my gender euphoria, and to have that used against me was such a mind game," but it was "the trans women in my life that supported me during that time and took my hand and said, 'This is our reality. Welcome.'"

Perhaps the gushiest interview of them all came on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio, under the online headline "For Dylan Mulvaney, 'sweet earnestness' is what feels right."

NPR's Juana Summers was swooning: "You write to the reader in the opening of this book that -- I need you to believe that sweet earnestness still exists. And Dylan, that is just something that -- from everything I've seen and everything I've heard -- that you seem to embody. How is it that you manage to hold on to that?"

This eight-minute lovefest aired on a show called "All Things Considered." Here's how Mulvaney's opposition was considered by Summers: "You were also the subject of some ugly vitriol online, some violent threats. You've talked about this in the book. I know that you've spoken out about this before, but I just want to know, what is it that you want people to understand about what that time in your life was like for you -- how you experienced it?"

Follow-up questions included: "I wonder, having gone through that experience and now being at a very different point in your life, what did it teach you about yourself? What did you learn about yourself?" And: "What's your relationship with your faith today?" Then finally, "Dylan, what do you hope comes next for you? What are you looking for in your next chapter?"

NPR's show could be titled "You Had Me at Hello," not "All Things Considered."

Whenever a leftist lectures us on Democracy, it's easy to bring up transgender issues because there can be no dissent, no opposition, no debate -- it's just "hate." In our democracy, conservatives are not only maligned, they are taxed so they can be maligned on radio and TV from coast to coast.

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Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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