Jk Rowling Blasts Media After Scotus Trans Sports Ruling

We have soundbites here from NBC and ABC as well with their reaction as the reports of the decision were coming out yesterday. Let's roll SOT 1, this is NBC. Just a quick note here, the terms that we're using here during our reporting, biological male, biological female, the high court put those terms in quotations in their decision but just so you know, we're using those terms from the decision itself, biological male, biological female. Just hearing that makes me want to go through the roof. But before we do that, Mark, let's roll ABC. There is not a speech that goes by where the president does not talk about transgender athletes. This is clearly a big win for him today. Yeah, Kara, rarely does a day go by here at the White House when the president doesn't rail against the participation of transgender female athletes in girls and women's sports. The president really leaning in to this national debate. He feels this is a winning issue for him politically, and this is a win for him. The White House, in fact, has already taken to social media, posting in their words, quote, from now on, women's sports will only be for women. All right, and finally, control room, can we put actually the J.K. Rowling post up in this block? BBC reported with the headline, U.S. Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender women in female school and college sports. J.K. Rowling replied, you mean men, men who claim to be women? You are a national broadcaster that consistently obfuscates facts around sex because you've taken an ideological position the public overwhelmingly rejects. This isn't news. It's propaganda. Again, it's like quaint to make that criticism of BBC at this point in 2026. But Mark, we've seen the public polling on this go increasingly in one direction and in the correct direction in these cases. And to hear Craig Melvin, to hear Craig Melvin come out and say, we are using these terms, it was basically a trigger warning. We're using the terms that the Supreme Court use when actually the words that everybody should just be using is men and women. We don't even really need to say biological men and biological women because the majority of the country knows what the hell you're talking about. Yes. No, this is, yeah, it's absolutely infuriating. And as you point out, I mean, this is literally like an 80, 20 issue in the country. And, you know, in particularly in certain parts of the country, it's, you know, absolutely overwhelming, you know, and I at the same time, you know, it's not like there's this epidemic of transgender violence and all these other things that they use as an excuse to hide behind. I mean, like, just the facts don't bear out that this is doing any sort of harm to people to use the correct terminology that we all used up until about, you know, five seconds ago in historical terms. There was a libertarian economist named Menker Olson who wrote a book called The Logic of Collective Action. It's like subtitles like public goods and the theory of groups in the 1960s, basically. And the book is really interesting. And one of the interesting things about it is that basically it makes the point that, you know, when it comes to issues of public policy, you have a situation here where highly energized minorities tend to run roughshod over even large majorities often. And like, this is sort of the knee plus ultra of this. I mean, this is just weaponized fanatical mental illness at this point in time. And the fact that institutions like the media play along with this, you know, again, it goes back to this question that we were getting at a little bit before. I'm like, who do the media serve, right? You know, you know, are they the conduit between, you know, institutions of power and the public, you know, and then, and are they meant to serve the public? Or are they meant to uphold basically what are basically, in this case, bourgeois values that only apply to a select group of people, and in fact, do harm to a very large group of people, which in this case is the women of America. And yet at every turn, they're protecting this, you know, highly, you know, energized minority that is actively doing harm to a large majority. And it's just astonishing to me, like it's a complete inversion of their responsibility as journalists. And I don't see them, you know, changing anytime soon. It's just like, I don't know what it is possibly going to take. You know, and the other thing about it is, it's also an extremely partisan line. The fact of the matter is, is that the Democratic Party, regardless of whether their own voters are invested in this, and polls show that the vast majority of Democratic voters don't want men and women's sports. 67% was the latest poll I saw. Yes, that's among Democrats. And yet, you know, I see a tweet from Elizabeth Warren recently saying, this is disgusting. The Trump administration is quote, targeting, you know, transgender people. It's like, again, complete inversion of reality. At every point in time, we have the transgender people that are the aggressors. They're the ones demanding admission into female spaces, bathrooms, sports teams, whatever, you know, rape shelters, I mean, whatever it is, it's just absolute insanity, prisons. And, you know, they're the aggressors here. They're the ones that are demanding accommodation. They're the ones that are doing harm by doing this. And somehow they're being targeted in this vision. And the media plays along with it. And it is completely the wrong frame. And JK Rowling is absolutely right. It is pure propaganda, and they refuse to see it as such. Meanwhile, every criticism of transgender people, valid or not, is considered propaganda by the media. It's, again, an inversion of reality. Well, it's also just amazing this far into the, like, grand gender experiment that was run on children for years to see what, you may remember this book, remember, Coulter, Ann Coulter dropped a book, it's like 2007 or eight called Guilty. And I think the subheading was liberal victims and their assaults on America, something like that. And her point was that the left selects victims that then the media will borrow the framing of. And when you look at the trans issue, it's probably the most clear example of how that fails, like choosing one victim over other victims can often fail Democrats, fails politically, although Milat Kiros, who was just elected, will probably be the seventh DSA line member in Congress, just won the nomination in Colorado's first district on Tuesday, has put forward a Trans Bill of Rights. Some of these DSA candidates, ascendant candidates who have won in recent weeks have reacted to this decision with a program. No real surprise there. Probably Peggy Flanagan is going to win the race in Minnesota to replace Tim Walz. So the party actually is continuing to kind of cling to this. Seth Moulton famously walked back what he said. Gavin Newsom famously walked back what he said, what he said all in the face of the public rejecting it is they have a really hard time letting go of the original narrative they set. Well, again, you know, it goes back to this situation here where you have, you know, organized minorities, you know, that are running counter to the majority here. You know, at the same time, yes, you see people doing this in Minneapolis and you see DSA candidates in heavily urban areas doing this. But how is this going to play out nationally? For instance, Kamala Harris got absolutely slaughtered on this issue when she ran for president. Like everyone admits those, you know, Kamala is for they, them, Trump is for you ads or whatever just destroyed her. Like, I don't see this being an issue that plays out nationally. You have this situation here where Democrats are constantly caught between a rock and a hard place where they are beholden to all of these, you know, radical minorities and radical issues right up until the point that, you know, they aren't. I mean, you know, remember how I just saw a thing today where climate change groups are going after Democrats, progressive Democrats now, because all they talk about is Palestine or they talk about affordability, but they're not talking about how climate change is making things more expensive. Like the Democrats just discarded kind of climate change because it ceased to be a losing issue. I don't know if this is going to happen with the transgender thing, but it takes a while to sort of get to that point. And the point is going to be whether or not this proves to be a liability and in the national political environment. 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