NBC Hypes 'Historic' Obama Admin. Move on Transgender Students

Matthew Balan | May 13, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

The Big Three networks' evening newscasts on 13 May 2016 devoted full reports to the Obama administration's controversial letter to every public school district in the nation directing them to allow transgender students to use bathroom and locker rooms according to their chosen sexual identity. However, NBC Nightly News's segment on the issue touted the "Obama administration's historic new directive to the nation's public schools," and revisited a Massachusetts girl who now lives as a boy. Kate Snow touted how the child's mother says the federal government's move is "protection for him at school — and validation that his rights matter."

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