Another curious news call by the Inquirer
In more than 40 paragraphs, several pro-trans people are quoted, while only one mention of opposition to “rights” of trans people
God forbid I should be cruel, but I am awake — not woke — and (not for the first time) an unbalanced Inquirer story got my goat.
In case you can’t read the lede (which is what journalists call the first paragraph) here it is:
“CB can’t even comprehend her transgender daughter being required to use the boys’ bathroom at her South Jersey school.”
I can. Her “daughter” has a dick.
We have a choice: CB’s unfortunate “daughter” must go to the boys’ bathroom where she might be exposed to anatomical equipment like her own, or she could go to the girls’ bathroom where others might be exposed to anatomical equipment unlike their own. They might be upset, at the least.
Whose rights prevail?
I am with the biological females. (This assumes the school doesn’t have unisex bathroom facilities, such as on planes and trains.)
The Inquirer thought this story was important enough to be on Monday’s Page One. The headline focuses on Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill’s trans position, or lack of one, even though her name is not even mentioned on Page One.
That struck me as peculiar.
Especially since in the story’s continuation, staff writer Aliya Schneider reports Sherrill “has largely voted in support of transgender rights throughout her nearly seven-year legislative career.”
In the story’s more than 40 paragraphs, several pro-trans people are quoted, while (aside from a spokesman for Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli) the only mention of opposition to “rights” of trans people comes from the American Principles Project, described as a “Virginia-based conservative group” that paid for an ad “that vilifies trans people.”
No example of the “vilification” was provided.
Once again, the Inquirer displays its bias in what is supposed to be objective news coverage.
