The coordinated strikes against trans people of all ages, in all areas of life, continues, coming into particularly grim effect with one ill-phrased Washington Post headline from this morning.
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Covering a trans girl in a Virginia high school, where trans participation in sports requires being treated as your gender-assigned-at-birth, the Post decided to frame their story as an exciting tale of sticking it to the system—but there’s just one problem. What happened in Virginia shouldn’t ever happen, and there’s no use in sugarcoating it.
"joined" kind of implies that it was a choice, which i guess it was a choice if the other choice was to not play sports at all, but she was kind of forced if she wants to play sports to play with men (and be at a disadvantage)
— gwen howerton (@kissphoria.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Trans journalist Parker Molloy pointed out the problem with the headline in question, leading other trans voices to speak out.
Trans teen Eliza Munshi had to make a choice: either run track with the wrong team, or don’t run track at all. She chose to run. While Munshi’s choice is hers to make, and there’s nothing wrong with her doing what she needs to do to play the sport she loves, the framing of the story is faulty at best, irresponsible at worst.
This is framed as a heartwarming story of tenacity and grit. And I do admire HER. I don't admire WaPo using it to basically imply "see, oppressive segregation isn't so BAD, now is it?" Also the article demonstrates a total lack of biological advantage which WaPo skims past without mentioning it
— Eve_Rising (@eve-rising.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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If we can’t count on the media to do our stories justice, it’s just going to make things worse.
my eyes are burning, my retinas are singed, and i want to yell at the wapo headquarters from a street corner
— jael holzman (@jael.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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This is what happens when you make policy but you don't know shit about how anything at all works. "but you can just compete with boys" no we can't you baby brained bitch
— Katelyn Burns (@katelynburns.com) April 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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This is why trans stories need to be written by trans journalists. If we keep getting the stories of trans people—particularly young trans women, who are especially targeted by sports bans—as seen through a cis lens, things are only going to get worse for us during an already untenable administration.
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