The Media Eagerly Take the Wrong Side of the Facts on Girls’ Sports
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.
- ▪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,
- ▪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.
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Home – Media Bias News – The Media Eagerly Take the Wrong Side of the Facts on Girls’ Sports opinion The Media Eagerly Take the Wrong Side of the Facts on Girls’ Sports Tim Graham • July 6, 2026 Print Craig Melvin on June 08, 2026, in New York, N.Y. (John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images) (function(){var t=document.querySelector(".wp-block-kadence-dynamichtml"),s=document.currentScript.previousElementSibling;if(t&&s){if("prepend"==="before_element")t.parentNode.insertBefore(s,t);else if("prepend"==="after_element")t.parentNode.insertBefore(s,t.nextSibling);else if("prepend"==="prepend"||"prepend"==="inside_first_child")t.insertBefore(s,t.firstChild);else t.appendChild(s);}})(); Journalists love to boast that they are “Facts First” people, that they are the brave souls seeking out “truth.”…
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