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TrackAIPAC's candidate for U.S. Senate from New Hampshire offered her full-throated support to the state's transgender community—including backing medical gender treatments for children as young as 12 so that they can "transition" to the other sex, the Washington Free Beacon can report.
Karishma Manzur, a Ph.D. scientist who often touts her fondness for facts and evidence, made the comment last August during an appearance on the barely watched YouTube show #NHtok live, hosted by Arya Shams and Marissa Emanuele.
"Every human being has the right to live the life they want to live, and if anyone needs any kind of care, health care, mental care, that is between the person, the individual, their health care providers, and their loved ones," said Manzur. "Reproductive care, transgender care, cancer care, I mean, it's just a health care, care for their mental health."
The candidate then made clear that when she said "every human being," she meant everyone, including pre-teens.
"The other day, I was talking to a father, and his child is, I think it was a 12-year-old or a 13-year-old child, and they are in the process of trying to figure out if they're transitioning, etc.," Manzur said. "And he said, you know, you cannot imagine, Karishma, how difficult it is just to raise a teenager."
"The teenage years are just so difficult for a child and the parents and the family and the community," Manzur went on. "Then, on top of it, there's so much more complexity going on with a child who might be considering transitioning or exploring who they are, what their identity is. It is such a private moment. It is such a delicate moment."
At no point during the conversation did Manzur ever suggest it might be inappropriate or unsafe to transition a 12-year-old. A majority of U.S. states have enacted laws and policies restricting gender-altering medical treatments for minors.
"Every person deserves the right to live and thrive, no matter who they are, and so that is our duty," Manzur offered later in the show when asked a follow-up question on the same subject.
She is running a long-shot progressive primary challenge for Senate against Rep. Chris Pappas, an establishment favorite. A University of New Hampshire poll in June showed Pappas with 53 percent support compared with Manzur's 29 percent. The comfortable 24 percent margin is, however, a marked drop in support for Pappas from past polls as the race heads toward the September 8 primary. The Democratic primary winner will likely face off against Republican John Sununu in November.
Manzur is running on a boilerplate progressive platform with a buffet of warmed-over far-left ideas including Medicare for All, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and making large investments in "social housing." She has also accused President Donald Trump of "leading us to fascism."
And, like all good progressives since Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks, she has positioned herself as a fierce opponent of Israel and vowed she would not take any money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel U.S. interest group that probably wouldn’t be keen to donate much anyway.
Manzur has falsely accused Israel of genocide and repeated debunked claims of famine in Gaza. In September, she told a local New Hampshire television station that 680,000 Palestinians had been killed during Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza. In August, she upped the number still further.
"We are basically looking at the destruction of two million human lives. They're being tortured to death. They're being starved to death, bombed to death," she said during an appearance on the YouTube show Matt Connarton Unleashed.
The true number of dead—which does not distinguish between fighters, militant operatives, and civilians—is believed to be in the tens of thousands.
Manzur has herself also taken part in pro-Hamas protests, including crashing New Hampshire Democrats' Eleanor Roosevelt Fundraising Dinner on Oct. 17, 2024. A photo from the incident shows her holding a "ceasefire now" sign while sporting a keffiyeh.
Manzur, a native of Bangladesh, is the daughter of Major General Muhammad Abul Manzur, who was accused of being a mastermind of the assassination of former Bangladeshi president Ziaur Rahman. The elder Manzur was later executed after being taken into custody under circumstances that remain murky.
Former president George W. Bush's Department of Homeland Security spent years trying to deport Manzur's family back to Bangladesh, though Karishma Manzur herself managed to get her deportation order suspended in 2007. The whole family appears to have managed to stay in the United States.
