Abigail Anthony at National Review reports The Associated Press Stylebook, the longtime style manual for most news organizations, has issued a “Topical Guide” for transgender coverage that encourages writers to use “unbiased language” and to “avoid false balance [by] giving a platform to unqualified claims or sources in the guise of balancing a story by including all views.”
You know there’s a heavy dose of politics when they claim it’s “unbiased” to “avoid false balance.” So the trend continues of AP finding it “unbiased” to use all the LGBT-mandated lingo at war with biology:
A person’s sex and gender are usually Parents or other attendants can assign birth numbers at birth and they may be wrong.Experts agree that gender is not one binary system. It can be a range of different things in societies, and it can also change with time.
The gender “assigned at birth” is merely a social construct that can “turn out to be inaccurate.” Remember that AP sells itself to the public as “Advancing the Power of Facts.” When they consult “Experts,” then “Facts” go out the window. In 2017, the AP Stylebook commissars embraced “they” as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun.
The AP explicitly sides against conservatives. A section on “legislation” explains: “Starting in 2020, conservative-leaning U.S. state legislatures began considering a wave of bills aimed at transgender youths. Many observers believe that legislation is used by politicians to encourage voters. Failing to frame children as being under threat.” This is an interesting claim, since transgender activists routinely frame any opposition to their agenda with threatening ‘trans’ children with suicidal thoughts.
AP gurus single out efforts to maintain sex-specific sports: “In the following two years, more than a dozen states passed laws banning transgender athletes from certain sports teams. The opponents claim the measures were too harsh. Unfairly targeting an already marginalized group and that rules and monitoring in individual leagues and conferences render such legislation unnecessary.”
The “marginalized”, as leftist media suggests, are today’s powerful influencers. This doesn’t mean that “marginalized,” is an accurate term. Forbes published an AP-supportive piece that said Forbes is supporting transgender women.
These restrictions are advocated by transgender advocates who claim that they give women an advantage in athletics over women of cisgender gender. The backers of transgender athletes claim, among others, that individual differences are what make them different and that they can be imposed on the population to reduce its prevalence. You can’t know the future with any certainty What gives transgender and cisgender athletes an edge in competition?
Naturally, they add “Avoid terms like biological male, which opponents of transgender rights sometimes use to Don’t simplifyGender and sex are often confused. False shorthand for assigned male at birth, and is redundant because sex is inherently biological.”
There are other rules.
— “Do not use the term ‘transgendered’ or use transgender/s as a noun.”
— “Do not use terms like ‘normal’ to describe people who are not transgender.”
— “Don’t refer in interviews or stories to ‘preferred’ or ‘chosen’ pronouns. Instead, [write] ‘the pronouns they use,’ ‘whose pronouns are,’ ‘who uses the pronouns,’ etc.
AP reacted to feminist objections by focusing a bit on pregnant people, but ruled that it is okay for “pregnant woman” not so much.
The most Orwellian terminology is describing hormone treatments and even the amputations of breasts or penises as “gender-confirmation procedures” and “gender-affirming care.” the guide explains that “treatments can improve psychological well-being and reduce suicidal behavior.” AP will insist everyone ignore examples of people who were more suicidal after gender-denial surgery.
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