(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) After pushing junk-science in an effort to promote the LGBT agenda, far-left National Public Radio was forced to issue a correction about the actual science, only to have the correction again get fact-checked with additional context added on Twitter.
NPR posted a tweet Sunday questioning the World Athletics Council’s decision to ban transgenders who consider themselves women from competing against biological women in international events.
The international governing body for track and field will ban trans women athletes from elite women’s competitions, citing a priority for fairness over inclusion, despite limited scientific research involving elite trans athletes. https://t.co/CcYOVuDVlR
— NPR (@NPR) March 26, 2023
Tropes such as “despite limited scientific research” have become common dogwhistles for leftist media outlets to push abjectly false claims under the auspices of saying there is nothing to debunk it.
The only problem for NPR, however, was that there were, in fact, studies that offered the evidence they so desperately needed to downplay.
After receiving much backlash for the claim, NPR issued a “correction,” writing that “an earlier tweet incorrectly stated there is limited scientific evidence of physical advantage. Existing research shows that higher levels of testosterone do impact athletic performance. But there’s limited research involving elite trans athletes in competition.”
Correction: An earlier tweet incorrectly stated there is limited scientific evidence of physical advantage. Existing research shows that higher levels of testosterone do impact athletic performance. But there’s limited research involving elite trans athletes in competition.
— NPR (@NPR) March 26, 2023
Twitter, however, fact-checked NPR’s dubious claims, posting links to a well-known study that proves that hormone-altering drugs definitively benefit those who take the drugs over those who do not.
Even NBC covered the study’s findings.
According to the lead author of the study, Dr. Timothy Roberts, those who identify as transgender women really ought to wait at least two years before the playing field would become close to level.
“For the Olympic level, the elite level, I’d say probably two years is more realistic than one year,” he said.
“At one year, the trans women on average still have an advantage over the cis women,” he said, referring to cisgender—or nontransgender—women.
Even still, though, the study concluded that “transwomen still had a 9% faster mean run speed after the 1 year period of testosterone suppression that is recommended by World Athletics for inclusion in women’s events.”
Roberts and his colleagues found that, for at least two years following hormone therapy, those “transitioning” to female exceeded biological women by 10 percent in push up tests and 6 percent in sit up tests.
After the two-year mark, “they were fairly equivalent to the cisgender women.”
Notably, however, the study only followed athletes for 2.5 years at most.
Conservative journalist Stephen L. Miller made a point of calling out NPR for its double dose of failed fact-checking.
Man doesn't this just reveal the entire box these guys have put themselves into. This is art. Stand back and admire it. https://t.co/gtkLX8Q1Sp
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 27, 2023
