Liberal media outlets are so beholden to transgender ideology that they do not mind sounding insane in order to push their activist agenda.
The Washington Post illustrated this perfectly in an attempted fact-check of President Donald Trump in the paper’s health section. Trump signed an executive order asserting that “it is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”
Given that the insanity of the transgender movement was rejected by voters in 2024, one would think Democrats and liberal media would let this issue fade. Instead, the Washington Post is jumping in with “experts,” or liberal university professors, to object, claiming that, “according to experts and a significant body of academic research, the definitions he used are oversimplified and inaccurate.”
The outlet’s long-winded explainer focuses on people with genetic disorders. The assertion in the article is that around 2% of people are intersex and, thus, sex can’t be binary and must be a “spectrum,” according to the outlet’s quoted expert activist professors. That would mean that 5 million to 6 million people in the U.S. are intersex. The real percentage, when looking at “conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex,” or observable traits, is likely closer to 0.018%, which is just over 60,000 people.
The most important thing to remember here is that the Washington Post’s focus here isn’t actually on intersex people. It is on trying to delegitimize the idea that sex is binary in order to legitimize the transgender movement’s belief that men and women are interchangeable, which would render designations such as “nonbinary” legitimate. The outlet is using rare genetic disorders in which some people have sex characteristics that conflict with their genetics in order to say that biological sex is, essentially, not a real thing.
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Case in point, here is how the outlet describes biological sex: “Sex is widely understood to refer to a label assigned at birth based on one’s anatomy that may or may not match a person’s gender.” (Emphasis added). The activist invention of sex being “assigned at birth” is “widely understood” among ideologues in the Washington Post’s staff meetings. But it is scientifically illiterate nonsense designed to validate the idea that a man who lives 40 years of his life as a man can magically become a woman just because he feels like it.
If the Washington Post cannot even get basic biological facts right because it is fully committed to transgender ideology, why should anything else the outlet says be trusted? The outlet’s reporters and editors’ decision to run with such a narrative undermines what little trust it and others like it have left.