The Federalist has a news category: TRANS INSANITY

I don't hang out at The Federalist much. (understatement)

But I peeked at it today, and the articles on their homepage are categorized: TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, BORDER CRISIS, TRANS INSANITY.

If we want to briefly go into the weeds a bit:

They do have an "immigration" tag that's much larger than their "border crisis" tag.

On their website, compare:
/category/national-security-2/immigration/
/category/national-security-2/border-crisis/

Similarly, they have a big tag about gender called "the sexes" that's much larger than their "trans insanity" tag.

Compare:
/category/family-culture/the-sexes/
/category/culture/trans-insanity/

With that detail out of the way, what I'd like to point out is that TRANS INSANITY is not a normal media category. What we see here, on full display, is the prejudgment that anything a trans person might think, say, or do is insane simply because it's a trans person who's doing it. Have they made a separate category for "hey, a trans person said something halfway reasonable?" No, they haven't. If the article is specifically about a "transgender" topic, the Federalist labels the article "trans insanity." They are not open-minded to the possibility that any trans person might ever not be insane.

This is what the Federalist is, and this is why you are invited to write it off and not dialogue with it.

Things labeled 'insanity' are dismissed as unreal and get defunded. This is authoritarian scapegoating of minority groups.

See:

"Donald Trump’s campaign promise to withhold funding from public schools promoting what he calls “transgender insanity” is right out of The Authoritarian Playbook: aggrandizing executive authority by abusing the regulatory and spending power of the state to control speech and undercut disfavored public institutions."

— Why are autocrats so fixated on trans people?: LGBTQ scapegoating and the authoritarian playbook. Sohini Desai and Justin Florence. May 28, 2024.

His son, too: