“Gender Bender”: The Troubling Way Fox & Friends Discusses A Transgender Student’s Use Of Her High School Girls’ Locker Room

Media Matters | September 3rd, 2015

Ainsley Earhardt: “The Protesting Students Would Prefer That Lila Perry Use The Existing Gender Neutral Restroom Because She Is Still Physically A Male”

Fox News used an on-screen graphic reading “Gender Bender,” to highlight protests against a transgender student’s use of the girls’ locker room at her high school, and emphasized the protesters’ claims that she “is still physically a male.” Right-wing media have consistently spread myths about transgender-inclusive bathrooms that experts and school districts have debunked. From the September 2 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends:

Fox News Discrimination Video

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