A biological male student named AB Hernandez just won another girls' track meet in California — which is terrible enough on its own — but the real story is what happened when Fox News covered it. Host Ainsley Earhardt repeatedly referred to Hernandez as "she" while reporting on a boy dominating girls' sports.
Read that again. The network covering the story about a male athlete crushing female competitors couldn't even get the pronouns right while telling you about it.
Not the Bee caught the whole thing and, honestly, their headline practically writes itself. This is the kind of story where the comedy is baked into the facts and all you have to do is point at the screen.
Here's what we know. Hernandez — a biological male competing in girls' track in California — took first place again, beating actual girls out of awards and, more importantly, potential scholarship opportunities. Protesters showed up to oppose his participation. Counter-protesters showed up to defend it. The usual circus.
But Fox News managed to step on a rake that was lying right there in plain sight.
Ainsley Earhardt repeatedly called Hernandez "she" on air. Her co-host Brian Kilmeade, to his credit, used male pronouns — you know, the accurate ones. So you had two hosts on the same network, covering the same story, and one of them was actively participating in the exact linguistic problem the story is about.
As Not the Bee put it: "Pick a lane, Fox News!"
That's really the whole thing, isn't it? We've got a supposedly conservative network running a segment about how unfair it is that a boy is competing against girls — while one of the hosts keeps calling the boy a girl. It's like doing a segment on the dangers of texting while driving and texting through the whole broadcast.
This is why so many conservatives don't trust even "friendly" media anymore. If you can't get the basic biological reality right — the thing the entire story hinges on — then what exactly are you defending? You're just narrating the collapse while using the language of the people causing it.
The girls who lost to Hernandez don't get a do-over. They don't get their first-place finishes back. They don't get the scholarship money that might have come with a win. And they definitely don't get helped by a major news network that can't even call the situation what it is.
A boy competed against girls. A boy won. Calling him "she" doesn't change his biology — it just means the media has surrendered before the segment even starts.
Kilmeade got it right. The rest of the network should take notes.
