Transgender

Katy Tur Promotes 'Convincing' Speech of Montana Transgender Democrat
Concluding her eponymous show on Monday afternoon, MSNBC host Katy Tur promoted transgender activist Zooey Zephyr by playing clips of the Montana state legislator speaking out against a proposed law against drag shows.

Whoopi Defends Men in Women’s Sports: Men ‘Don't Know’ ‘Our Bodies’
Dylan Mulvaney, a man who thinks he’s woman and the social media influencer who got Bud Light boycotted, appeared on ABC’s The View during Monday’s episode to pitch his new book, Paper Doll. While conversing with him, ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg defended men competing in women’s sports and suggested the opposition came from men who “don't know anything about our bodies…

CBS Hails ‘Influencer’ Dylan Mulvaney Book, Laments ‘Painful’ ‘Hate’
Monday’s CBS Mornings had a syrupy puff piece by contributor Natalie Morales on “trans influencer” Dylan Mulvaney ahead of a memoir’s release, lamenting all the “painful” “trans hate” Mulvaney faced due to the Bud Light debacle and claiming Mulvaney thought of dying by suicide because people opposed it. No opposing viewpoint. All fluffy-yet-pointed demands everyone embrace…

Capehart Laments Lack Of 'Nuanced' Discussion On Men In Women's Sports
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart lamented to PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett on Friday that Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast appearance with conservative Charlie Kirk, where he dissented from the party line, continued the nation’s alleged inability to have “nuanced and thoughtful” conversations about transgender people participating in women’s sports.

NY Times: 'G.O.P.’s Latest Move to Use Transgender People as Leverage'
New York Times House GOP-beat reporter (and frequent MSNBC presence) Annie Karni took the most cynical possible view of House Republicans attempt to protect women from men competing against them in sports in Wednesday’s edition, “Democrats Block Measure on Transgender Girls and Sports.” By contrast, the filibustering Democrats who apparently want biological males to invade female…

Leavitt Rips MSNBC’s Wallace, CNN Chyron Over Trump Speech Hissyfits
Wednesday’s White House press briefing began with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt touting the findings of a CBS News/YouGov flash poll showing a whopping 76 percent of those who saw President Trump’s Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress liked what they saw, but also ripping CNN’s Chyron Boy and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace for their rank liberal bias. And, in the Q&A,…

Not Like Last Year: Sedate Networks Scoff at Trump’s ‘Campaign Rally’
Needless to say, ABC, CBS, and NBC offered far different reactions Tuesday night to President Trump’s address to Congress (think State of the Union, but not granted that title in a president’s first year) than they did in immediately celebrating last year’s partisan State of the Union from Joe Biden. For 2025, they were more lackadaisical in their disdain for Trump’s “intensely partisan” “…

Colbert, Buttigieg Fear For 'Soul of our Nation' After Trump Speech
CBS’s Stephen Colbert stayed up for a live show on what turned out to be Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. Colbert spent his monologue praising Rep. Al Green for getting kicked out of the House chamber and attacking Trump on everything from transgender issues to shipbuilding. Later, he would welcome former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to wonder, “…

Agitated MSNBC Finds It 'Very Painful' GOP Is Defending Women's Sports
MSNBC’s Monday edition of The 11th Hour could not hide their displeasure that Republicans were forcing them to talk about the competitive integrity of women’s sports. Host Stephanie Ruhle claimed that conservative concerns don’t “have any evidence,” and The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser claimed it was “very painful” to have to spend time discussing the issue.

CBS’s Garrett: ‘Revolutionary’ Trump WH Is ‘Hostile,’ ‘Not Collegial’
CBS chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett showed off his dismay with the second Trump administration on Tuesday’s CBS Mornings by painting it in apocalyptic terms as “revolutionary” in nearly every sense of the word and “not collegial” and “unremittingly hostile to the established, stable order” that’s kept America and the world safe and secure. Some doomcasting and fear porn…

MSNBC's Mohyeldin Slams GOP Transgender Policies as 'McCarthyism'
On Saturday night, MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin used his eponymously named show to paint Republican efforts to roll back the liberal agenda on transgenders and gays as a new "McCarthyism," and his guests pushed the conspiracy theory that recent actions are an "experiment" by Republicans to prepare to take rights away from a larger number of Americans later so they can stay in power.

CNN's Smerconish Slams 'Disgraceful' Ban on Transgenders in Military
Appearing as a guest on Friday's CNN This Morning, CNN weekend anchor Michael Smerconish lamented the Donald Trump administration's ban on transgenders in the military, calling it "disgraceful."

CNN Cues Maine Senator to Trash Trump as a Dictator on Women's Sports
On Wednesday's Anderson Cooper 360, CNN gave liberal Senator Angus King (I-ME) a forum to accuse President Donald Trump of abusing his constitutional power with his actions since taking office. And on Thursday morning, MSNBC's Morning Joe followed suit with their own interview with him entirely devoted to this topic.

CBS Attacks Iowa's Sex At Birth Law as a 'Civil Rights Reversal'
CBS Saturday Morning was not happy at Iowa for daring to pass a law that insists that an individual’s sex is immutable. Additionally, the Hawkeye State’s decision was said to be a “civil rights reversal” as it removed “civil rights protections for transgender people.”