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The Media Eagerly Take the Wrong Side of the Facts on Girls’ Sports

Journalists love to boast that they are “Facts First” people, that they are the brave souls seeking out “truth.” But when it comes to transgenderism, facts go out the window, and truth is triggering.

When the Supreme Court upheld state bans on boys in girls’ sports, NBC anchor Craig Melvin sounded apologetic in live coverage. “The terms that we’re using here during our reporting, biological male, biological female, the high court put those terms in quotations in their decision and their dissent.” They know that referring to boys and girls, those polar opposites, are a highly controversial set of terms.

NBC reporter Kelly O’Donnell lamented President Donald Trump “often sort of boils it down into bumper sticker language, talking about transgender athletes … It’s obviously much more complex.”

No. It’s not. There are boys, and there are girls. Anyone who can’t understand that probably shouldn’t be in journalism. They should never assert themselves as “fact checkers.”

Another pro-trans trope is to claim the number of “trans athletes” is a “tiny slice” of competing students. But if you’re the girl who loses to a boy at a swim meet or a track meet, it doesn’t........

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