Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Just a few days after the election, a CNN panelist, or Michael Singleton, caused a minor stir on set by referring to boys as boys.

Noting how Trump had tapped into this big concern for parents during the election,

Singleton said this, quote, I think there are a lot of families out there who don't believe

boys should play a girl's sport. Well, immediately, a co-panelist who was also sitting at the table

attempted to silence the point that Singleton was making, snapping back, quote, they're not boys,

I'm not going to listen to

transphobia at this table, end quote. Well, what happened next was, for a mainstream media outlet,

quite remarkable. Host Abby Phillip interrupted the interrupter and then asked Singleton

to continue the point he was trying to make. Clearly, the one who had attempted to silence

Singleton was under the

impression that just an accusation of bigotry and of hurt feelings was all it would take to shut

down his opponent. However, the rules have changed, and he had to sit there and listen. It's just

unlikely that this same exchange would have unfolded in the same way a year earlier,

but people seem to be losing their fear of speaking out against the trans revolution.

After all, during June last year, Pride Month certainly seemed toned down,

and not because business owners somehow had a moral conversion.

Instead, they looked at their bottom lines and the social media posts

from their customers. Of course, those posts were now visible because Elon Musk bought Twitter,

changing it from a platform or users were often canceled to one where for good or ill people

could say what they wanted. And perhaps the most important part of this story is that reality

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