CBS Ditches Trans Journalists Association Guide, Mandates 'Biological Sex at Birth' — No Quotes Need

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CBS Ditches Trans Journalists Association Guide, Mandates 'Biological Sex at Birth' — No Quotes Needed
 
justmindy  | 7:00 AM on January 14, 2026
     
CBS News standards is now officially calling a spade, a spade and apparently some people don't like it.
 

A senior standards director at CBS News told staffers on Tuesday to use the term “biological sex at birth” without quotations when referring to a case before the Supreme Court challenging state bans on transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports, a break from its prior newsroom guidance.

Tom Burke, the network’s senior director of standards and practices, wrote in Tuesday’s memo that CBS News “will use the term biological sex at birth” with “no quotes needed” when describing arguments from West Virginia and Idaho defending their law that bans trans athletes. The company has been without a formal head of standards since October after Claudia Milne left.

CBS News declined to comment.

This new guidance reflects the latest shift in CBS News coverage under Bari Weiss, the co-founder and editor of the right-leaning Free Press, who was appointed the network’s editor in chief in October after CBS-Paramount acquired her site.

The network’s relaunch of “CBS Evening News” included laying out five “simple values” ahead of anchor Tony Dokoupil’s takeover, prompting criticism online. Weiss came under fire last month for holding a hard-hitting “60 Minutes” segment on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown just hours before broadcast. In defending the move, Weiss told staffers that the newsroom needed to make changes if it wanted to earn back its audience’s trust.

https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2026/01/14/cbs-news-trans-biological-sex-at-birth-standards-n2423902

[mountaineer]

Great, now drop the AP's inexplicable capitalization of "Black," while "white" remains lower case.

[The_Reader_David]

I like Bari Weiss and the lot of writers she's collected at The Free Press, but she's only right-leaning because the Left moved the Overton Window so far in their direction since the end of the Cold War.  In the 1980's she'd have been a moderate leftist, while she was at The New York Times before setting up on her own in disgust at the Jew-hatred in their newsroom, she was a centrist.