NPR's Reporting Is Almost a Parody

If you want to know why AWFLs are so awful, one of the reasons is that they read The New York Times, watch The View, and listen to NPR. They read The Atlantic and Vogue, and consider themselves well-informed. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File If your diet of news came from these and few other sources, you too might believe insane things. After all, the only information you get is The NarrativeTM. So - Jon Pike (@runthinkwrite) @NPR , I've listened to this segment, and I follow this debate closely. I'm a leftist philosophy professor: your target audience. This segment is *utter rubbish* from beginning to end. Sosin simply *lies* about the research, notably the paper by @FondOfBeetles in SM (2021).... https://t.co/l1P3YZtH43 January 13, 2026 This segment is *utter rubbish* from beginning to end. Sosin simply *lies* about the research, notably the paper by @FondOfBeetles in SM (2021). But the whole framing is wrong, and the spin that you put on this - on words like 'ban' and 'advantage' - is deeply dishonest. On this evidence, you simply have no regard for the truth at all. It's *astonishingly* poor journalism. Your reputation should be in the ditch for this, including among liberals. I didn't listen to the NPR piece because, thankfully, there is a transcript at the link, and the idea of listening to two self-satisfied women pretending to tell you the "facts" of the Supreme Court case on trans athletes is almost too much to bear. We all know the smug NPR voices that grate on the ear. Everything about this interview is wrong from the start. The case, we are told, is about two "girls" who just want to participate in girls' sports. That is, of course, deeply deceptive. The athletes in question are not girls at all, but boys who believe or are pretending to believe they are girls. They are male, in other words. And the case is about Title IX, which says nothing about perceived sex or gender, but about sex, which is a biological category. SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: This week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments from two separate cases weighing the rights of transgender athletes. Little v. Hecox challenges Idaho's ban on trans athletes playing on women's and girls' sports teams. West Virginia v. B.P.J. challenges a similar ban in West Virginia. Kate Sosin covers LGBTQ issues for the nonprofit newsroom The 19th and has been following these cases closely. They're here to give us a preview. Welcome. KATE SOSIN: Thanks for having me. MCCAMMON: So, in essence, what are these two cases about? SOSIN: So conservatives have increasingly argued that transgender women and girls have an unfair advantage in sports, that their hormone levels make them stronger and faster, and for that reason, they say, trans women should be banned from competition. These two girls, Lindsay Hecox and Becky Pepper-Jackson , were banned from playing sports in their respective states by these state bans, and 27 states have these bans. And now the...

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