WALSH: Media Matters Accuses Us Of ‘Demeaning’ Males By Calling Them Male

Our great fans over at Media Matters ran another lengthy article last week exposing our terrible alleged bigotry and launching various accusations at us that end in -ist or -phobia. The article, written by “LGBTQ researcher” Alex Paterson, says that Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro, and yours truly are guilty of “demeaning trans high school athletes.” The athletes we have supposedly demeaned are biological males who have been competing against — and often beating, despite being mediocre runners by male standards — girls in track and field. Three of those girls are filing a lawsuit to keep boys off of their sports teams, and that was the occasion for the allegedly demeaning comments made by Knowles, Shapiro, and myself.

In reading through their report, I was not able to find an example of anything that could be reasonably considered demeaning or insulting. When posting his article on Twitter, Paterson called us “disgusting” because we “comment[ed] about teenagers’ genitals.” But we of course made no specific comments about anyone’s genitals, except to point out that the teenagers in question are male. We “commented about their genitals” in the same way that a doctor in the delivery room comments about a baby’s genitals when he looks down and says, “It’s a boy.” Paterson may want to stop and consider why and how doctors make these determinations based, most of the time, on a brief glance at the genitals. Is it because doctors are involved in a transphobic conspiracy? Or is it perhaps because there is a crucial link between a person’s genitals and their sex? I would encourage our friends at Media Matters to use their brains and think carefully about this question. Though I don’t mean to comment about their internal organs. Especially one that, evidence suggests, they may not possess.