President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, reportedly refused to respond to New York Times reporters who included their “preferred pronouns” in their email signatures. Leavitt said it’s a Trump administration policy to ignore questions from reporters who deny “biological reality.”
“As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” Leavitt told the New York Times’s Michael Grynbaum in an email. “Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story.”
Considering the way the media class covered Trump over the last decade, it seems like common sense to avoid so-called reporters who so plainly expose their left-wing bias. These people are not grounded in reality and, therefore, cannot be trusted to report the facts to the American people. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)
Still, this should be a policy for all Americans, not just the Trump administration. While they claim to report the news with no left-leaning slant, putting pronouns in their bio exposes their bias in the most obvious way.
The Washington Post reporter Karine Elwood is an excellent example of this. She wrote a profile on April 3 about a trans-identified male, Eliza Munshi, who is “forced” to compete in track events on the male team. Elwood framed the story purposefully to push the reader to empathize with the boy despite overwhelming evidence that male athletes have a clear advantage over female athletes. Additionally, female athletes have been seriously harmed by male athletes during competitions.
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