November 13, 2019
For Immediate Release
For more information, contact media@ruthinstitute.org.
You-tube: “Criticizing Transgender Surgery = Hate”
Ruth Institute: “Banning Speech = Cowardice”
Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. condemned YouTube’s decision to ban a Daily Signal/Heritage Foundation video with Dr. Michelle
Cretella, M.D. over her comment on transgenderism.
“The Sexual Revolutionaries running YouTube are cowards. They cannot refute Dr. Cretella and the Heritage Foundation. They ban their opponents instead
of confronting them. Big Tech is making Big Brother seem benign,” Morse said.
YouTube claims an observation by the eminent pediatrician, and executive director of the American College of Pediatricians, violates its hate speech code.
In the 2017 interview, Cretella said: “If you want to cut off a leg or an arm, you’re mentally ill, but if you want to cut off healthy breasts or a
penis, you’re transgender.”
“Dr. Cretella’s remarks did not promote violence toward or hatred of anyone,” Morse declared. “Instead, it’s the type of mutilation which Cretella spoke
out against that’s an act of violence.”
Morse continued: “YouTube has decided that a perfectly reasonable remark by a medical professional is hate speech. It uses this to justify banning inconvenient
expression.”
Dr. Cretella also appeared in the October 4 edition of The Dr J Show, the Ruth Institute’s new video podcast. Drs. Morse and Cretella discussed a variety
of concerns, including the medical consequences of so-called gender-transitioning. The Ruth Institute is urging its supporters to promote this interview
as a way to counter the censorship against our friends at the Heritage Foundation.
youtube.com/watch?v=LQovehloA2k&t=660s
In another case the Ruth Institute has been involved with, divorced parents were in a bitter custody dispute. The wife wanted to transition her 7-year-old
son to a transgendered “female.” The husband fought it. After a public outcry, the judge granted joint custody. But she also issued a gag order preventing
the parties from discussing the case publicly. Said Morse “This is another outrageous example of censorship involving transgenderism.”
ruthinstitute.org/press/ruth-institute-decries-judge-s-gag-order-in-savejames-case
Despite YouTube’s attempts to silence dissent, the Heritage Foundation has made the public aware of the injustice through its direct email communications
with supporters. The Ruth Institute urges the public to subscribe to its lists, so we can inform them if we’ve been de-platformed on social media.
“We intend to keep fighting to get the truth out, regardless of what Big Tech thinks or does,” Dr. Morse said.
The Ruth Institute is a global interfaith non-profit organization equipping Christians to defend the family and build a civilization of love.
Dr. Morse is the author of The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives.
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