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USA Today Newspapers Quietly Delete GOP Senator's Op-Ed Warning Against Trans Athletes
Bobby Burack
May 24, 2024 3:52 PM EDT
https://www.outkick.com/sports/usa-today-newspapers-quietly-delete-gop-senators-op-ed-warning-against-trans-athletes
On May 11, several local USA Today newspapers ran an article by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) titled,
"Is transgender inclusion more important than women’s sports?" In the piece, Kennedy criticizes
biological men playing women's sports.
However, by May 14, Kennedy's office noticed the links to his op-ed were broken.
Per a Fox News Digital review, Kennedy's office inquired about the broken links but did not hear back.
His office sent another follow-up email on May 20, to which a reporter for Gannett's Louisiana paper
confirmed to the team that the outlet had deleted the article.
"The editors took it down after determining that it didn't meet the company's standards because of some
inflammatory speech," the reporter told Kennedy's office.
Confused, Kennedy's team asked for clarification. The reporter then connected Kennedy's office to Misty
Castile, an executive editor.
Castile told the office there was a "concern" about the lack of citations in the piece. However, Fox News
Digital received the original article and noted 17 different citations, well above average for a USA Today
op-ed.
When confronted, Castile walked back the citations claim.
Castile then shared with Kennedy's office that the "standards department" removed the article. According
to Fox News, the department took issue with the article's analogy to New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion
Williamson.
In the article, Kennedy compared trans female athletes to Williamson joining a youth basketball league
"simply because he identified as a 12-year-old." Kennedy noted that "no middle school boys" would be able
to stop the NBA star from winning and would "probably end up injured if they tried."
The analogy fits. It's amusing and effective.
Yet the standards department said the comparison was "inflammatory" and "mocking how someone identifies
is not acceptable."
The outlet also claimed Kennedy's use of the terms "biological male" and "biological female" goes "against our
standards," claiming they were "loaded language."
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