Liberals like to claim they believe in science, which is exactly the kind of thing people who reject science would say. Liberals don’t believe in science, they believe in nonsense that supports their own nonsense. CNN, world leaders in fake news, are claiming that there is no way to determine a child’s gender at birth to support the ludicrous and unscientific notion that people can change their gender by putting on a dress or wearing a flannel shirt.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem vetoed a bill that would ban transgender students from participating in sports that don’t match the their actual gender then signed a couple of executive orders that achieve basically what was in the bill she rejected.
CNN is horrified that 18-year-old men won’t be allowed to share locker rooms and showers with preteen girls in South Dakota, so they wrote a nasty piece about Noem’s executive order. It included some pretty unscientific data to support their feelings on the subject.
Though the two executive orders signed by Noem do not explicitly mention transgender athletes, they reference the supposed harms of the participation of “males” in women’s athletics — an echo of the transphobic claim, cited in other similar legislative initiatives, that transgender women are not women.
Transgender women are not women not matter how much they doll themselves up. That’s not transphobia, it’s science. If transgender women were women they’d just be called “women” with out the descriptor “transgender.”
The orders also reference “biological sex,” a disputed term that refers to the sex as listed on students’ original birth certificates.
Disputed by who? The sex listed on everyone’s birth certificate reflects their actual biological sex: male or female.
It’s not possible to know a person’s gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth.
Sure there’s consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth: if there’s a ding-dong it’s a boy and if there’s a hoo-ha it’s a girl.
CNN felt that last line was a bit unclear so they issued this edit…
CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to provide additional explanation as to the distinctions between gender and sex.
…and this correction:
It’s not possible to know a person’s gender identity at birth, and for some people, the sex listed on their original birth certificate is a misleading way of describing the body they have.
How is that any better? It still claims that there is now way to determine a baby’s gender at birth, which is false. So is the idea that a penis or vagina is misleading in determining whether a person is male or female.
Speaking of which, CNN tried to explain why their bullshit isn’t bullshit and failed miserably:
While sex is a category that refers broadly to physiology, a person’s gender is an innate sense of identity. The factors that go into determining the sex listed on a person’s birth certificate may include anatomy, genetics and hormones, and there is broad natural variation in each of these categories. For this reason, the language of “biological sex,” as used in this legislation, can be overly simplistic and misleading.
“Overly simplistic and misleading” should be CNN’s tag line. Determining sex at birth may only include anatomy. The rest of that stuff is not based on biology and is therefore liberal gibberish.
Keep in mind that this CNN piece wasn’t presented as opinion but rather hard news. That’s why they are unrivaled in the world of fake newsing.
