Fox News Spends A Lot Of Time On Anti-Trans Policy

Fox News spent nearly as much time covering Donald Trump’s anti-trans executive orders as CNN and MSNBC combined. To conservatives who are tired of hearing about trans people: the call is coming from inside the house.

The Advocate: The numbers don’t lie — Fox News has an unhealthy obsession with transgender people.

Fox News covered the orders for a total of four hours and eight minutes, compared to MSNBC’s two hours and 33 minutes and CNN’s two hours and nine minutes.

All three cable networks spent about the same amount of time covering the issue on their news shows, but Fox News overtook all other cable news coverage of the topic on its opinion shows, which accounted for 28 percent of all coverage of the anti-trans executive orders across the networks.

“Fox News has used its platform to push inflammatory and misleading narratives about trans people for years,” Media Matters LGBTQ Program Director Ari Drennen told The Advocate. “After President Trump signed multiple executive orders targeting the trans community, Fox treated these anti-trans actions as culture war fodder, which fuels dangerous rhetoric and harmful misconceptions that lead to real discrimination.”

In just his first weeks in office, Trump signed executive ordersdenying the existence of transgender people, attempting to ban gender-affirming care for those under 19,banning trans athletes from teams and facilities that align with their identity, andrevoking 1960s civil rights protections in federal hirings.