What the Equality Act debate gets wrong about gender, sex | PolitiFact
Scientists, public health agencies and biologists say gender identity goes beyond male and female.
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Ketaki Deo, right, and Charlie Whittington, students at George Washington University, arrive for an event supporting The Equality Act, a comprehensive nondiscrimination bill for LGBT rights, on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 1, 2019. [ J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE | AP ]
By Daniel Funke and Miriam Valverde, PolitiFact
Published Mar. 6
Updated Mar. 6
On one side of the Capitol Hill hallway is a pink and blue flag, a symbol for transgender pride. Directly across is a sign that says: âThere are TWO genders: male & female. âTrust the science!ââ
(Article by Tim Graham republished from NewsBusters.org)
On Thursday, PolitiFact took sides in the hallway Twitter battle between freshmen congresswomen Marie Newman and Marjorie Taylor Greene over the so-called “Equality Act” being debated.
“We checked, and the science is clear: Gender identity goes beyond male and female.”
How can you trust any “fact check” from people who are this slippery with obvious facts? On Thursday, PolitiFact wasn’t subtle by illustrating their “check” with a picture of left-wing activists holding up a sign reading “TRANS EQUALITY NOW.”
Daniel Funke and Miriam Valverde spared Rep. Greene one of those “False” ratings on the Truth-O-Meter, but they took the typical approach of finding liberal “experts” to add some kind of pseudo-facticity to their gender-deconstructionist arguments: