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1 month ago | 
mediamatters.org | Ari Drennen |Alyssa Tirrell |Rob Savillo |Harrison Ray |Mia Gingerich |Vesper Henry
Media Matters identified just 5 national TV news mentions in 2024 of fatal anti-trans violence. Those 5 mentions totaled just 3 minutes of airtime. MSNBC aired 4 of these mentions while CNN included just 1. ABC, CBS, and NBC each failed to air any coverage, according to our review. Fox News also failed to include any coverage of the topic — a departure from 2023, when segments on the network often included mocking or dismissive commentary about victims of anti-trans violence.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Ari Drennen |Alyssa Tirrell |Vesper Henry
Right-wing media spent years demanding that President Donald Trump ban transgender women from competing in women’s sports. He complied. But rather than declare victory, conservative outlets immediately demanded even stricter measures, expanding their campaign to include intersex athletes and calling for invasive genetic testing. Their goal isn't fairness; it's perpetual outrage and ideological policing of women's bodies.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Chloe Simon |Vesper Henry |Bushra Sultana
On January 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order preventing trans people from joining and serving openly in the U.S. military.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Vesper Henry |Alyssa Tirrell
As election season nears its end, anti-trans political ads have surged, with advertisers pouring as much as $82 million into ads that now air even during high-profile broadcasts like NFL games. Fox News has mirrored this bigotry. In October alone, the outlet aired at least 47 weekday segments about trans athletes, representing more than a 683% increase from September.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Vesper Henry
Starbuck targeted companies for supporting LGBTQ employees and the LGBTQ community. Starbuck attacked Tractor Supply over LGBTQ-related training and employee events, funding for Pride events, and for providing insurance coverage for gender-affirming care, all of which he said “disturbed” him.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Ari Drennen |Vesper Henry
She’s at it again: Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik seized on early reports by local law enforcement to suggest that a high schooler who was arrested for making a threat about a school shooting is part of an “epidemic” of “trans violence.” Although police later clarified that they’d inaccurately used he/him pronouns to refer to the student, the account — which currently has 3.5 million followers on X — never bothered to share the correction.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Alyssa Tirrell |Vesper Henry
A CNN report republished Harris' response to a 2019 ACLU questionnaire in which she stated positions on incarceration, immigration detention, and other questions of civil rights.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Vesper Henry
“The View from the Top” panel at The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists’ National Convention this year convened an array of industry leaders to discuss the current state of the news media in “one of the toughest years for the industry since the Great Recession.” The topics of discussion included “declining trust in the media,” and a subsequent question about mainstream media lending equal credence to right-wing detractors on transgender issues put an editor representing the New York Times on...
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Ari Drennen |Alyssa Tirrell |Vesper Henry
At a September 7 rally in Wisconsin, former President Donald Trump again repeated his baseless claim that schools could be providing gender-affirming surgeries to minors without parental consent.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Alyssa Tirrell |Vesper Henry |Rob Savillo
2024 has already seen a significant number of anti-LGBTQ bills considered in state legislatures across the county. Of these 527 bills (some of which carried over from or were reintroduced following the previous session), at least 150 promise to specifically impact transgender Americans, with 112 restricting or banning access to gender-affirming care and 40 restricting or banning access to bathrooms, locker rooms, or other gender-specific facilities.
