Articles Expose Pro-Transgender Athlete Bias of Legacy Media

April  2025

    If there were any lingering doubts about the unabashedly pro-transgender bias of the liberal media, they were demolished April 3 by the marked contrast between a feature story and a news article, both in The Washington Post, on two separate cases of trans athletes competing in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

   At 6 a.m. April 3, The Post published online a 2,238-word magnum opus, headlined “A trans girl was banned from her track team. Now she’s competing with the boys.” (It comes nearly a year after The Post published an equally obsequious 2,600-word profile of a drag queen.)

   Post staff writer Karina Elwood’s fawning profile of transgender “female” athlete Eliza Munshi, 18, of Falls Church, Virginia, lamented that “[a]fter President Donald Trump banned transgender girls from competing in girls’ sports, a Virginia high-schooler joined the boys’ team.”
   How fawning was it? Consider the cringeworthy anecdotal lead paragraph: “Eliza Munshi kneeled on her bedroom floor curling her lashes. She dabbed glitter into the corners of her eyes and debated whether to tie her hair into one French braid or two. She slipped on her green jersey and headed to her first track and field meet.”

   The article was lavishly illustrated with no fewer than nine photos, inc ...

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