I have talked about media bias over and over again. Today’s post addresses this issue again. It concerns an absolutely looney decision by the governing body for high school sports in Connecticut (CIAC) to permit males to compete in female events. One such female participant, Chelsea Mitchell, wrote an op ed piece that was published by USA Today. What USA Today did after the caterwauling from some snowflakes began is downright scary.
Chelsea Mitchell is one of four Connecticut high school track athletes that sued the Connecticut Association of Schools because of its decision to allow boys to compete in girls’ sports if the boys claim to “identify” as girls. On May 22, USA Today, published Chelsea’s opinion piece explaining the reasoning behind the lawsuit.
Andrea Widburg notes:
In her original, moving opinion piece, Chelsea described what it’s like to be one of the fastest girls in Connecticut, only to see her ability to win destroyed by boys whose natural physical advantages have wiped out the top female runners in Connecticut high school track meets.
Mitchell does not have any problem with people who are transgender. Her entire point was females were being forced to compete against males. Why is there federal legislation mandating equal opportunities to participate in sports? Why does Title IX exist? One does not need a degree in physiology to know that, after puberty, males have an inherent advantage because their bodies are simply made differently. How many females are in the NFL, the NBA? Males will be bigger, stronger and quicker on average than females.
The CIAC is a sports governing body that has lost its way. They should be able to see the obvious. They are too afraid of the “woke supremacists” to tell the truth.
However, as bad as the CIAC decision is, what USA Today did next is absolutely inexcusable. Two days after the screeching started from the “woke supremacists,” the USA Today, without telling anyone, caved and replaced the word “male,” which had appeared ten times and was the whole point of the article, with words that referenced “transgender” people.
This transformed Mitchell’s piece. She was now cast in the light of being anti-trans. Nothing could have been further from the truth. And that’s the problem. Many people do not want to face the truth which Mitchell laid out. What Mitchell did took a good deal of courage. USA Today maligned her when they changed her op ed.
When called out on the obvious dishonesty in what USA Today had done, the editors retreated behind the smear that is often used in these situations. Mitchell’s choice of words (in this case male vs transgender) was hurtful.
Obviously, the “woke supremacists” control what USA Today is allowed to publish. It is time for regular, everyday Americans to say, “Enough is enough.” We must become louder than the small minority who believe that everything they think is what everyone else should believe.