In the first (free) segment of this week’s episode of Citation Needed, we break down the University of Pennsylvania’s stunning Title IX reversal over Lia Thomas. After a federal investigation, UPenn will now bar male athletes from women’s sports, restore records to displaced female swimmers, and adopt biology-based sex definitions. But instead of reporting this as a win for fairness, the media misleadingly spun it as a ban on “trans athletes.” We unpack the facts, the media distortions, and why this story matters for the future of women’s sports.
In the second (supporters-only) segment, we dive into a disturbing academic study that tested how to indoctrinate young children into gender ideology using the children’s book I Am Jazz and a similar story about a marker. Researchers explicitly set out to reduce kids’ belief in biological sex by feeding them ideologically loaded interpretations of events and tracking their responses. We walk you through exactly what they did, what they found, and why this kind of research should deeply concern every parent.
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