It’s best to scowl or laugh when someone suggests the media exist to offer us “the first draft of history” – especially when their ideological predispositions spur a refusal to acknowledge history. Take Supreme Court rulings. The ones that the media likes are often a “landmark decision.” But the ones they dislike can vanish.
On Monday, the Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 to uphold an injunction against the state of California’s gender secrecy policy, which mandated that school staff hide any student’s claimed transgender identity at school from parents unless the student expressly consented to reveal it. But since CNN announced the news as breaking after 6 pm, it was too late for the nightly newscasts and the print edition of national newspapers.
CNN legal reporter Joan Biskupic used leftist weasel words as the story broke. The California policy "prevents teachers from informing parents about a student's gender expression. If a middle schooler, for example, and there were middle schoolers at issue in this case want to transition and use different gender pronouns, the school policy there in California was the parents could not be told….the state had said it was intended to protect trans minors from rejection and abuse at home."
On parents rights, CNN falls back on leftist weasel words.
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 4, 2026
Legal reporter Joan Biskupic said SCOTUS ruled on "a California education policy that prevents teachers from informing parents about a student's gender expression. If a middle schooler, for example, and there were middle… pic.twitter.com/NKp1kI0Ixq
ABC, CBS, and NBC had nothing. Maybe they all wanted to say the Court blocked a policy temporarily -- so it's not news. But when liberal judges block Trump policies temporarily, that's not their judgment.
NPR’s All Things Considered wouldn’t consider it – but court reporter Nina Totenberg covered the Supreme Court ruling on guns and drug users for four minutes on Monday night, and they also provided four minutes of tribute to the late radical-pacifist Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy, who once insisted humans should never have pet dogs or cats. It was also a zero on Morning Edition.
PBS News Hour offered a 35-second brief on Tuesday evening, and pitched it as a Gavin Newsom story:
PBS gave 35 seconds to the big parental-rights ruling.
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 4, 2026
Geoff Bennett: "California's governor is criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to temporarily block a state law banning public schools from outing transgender students to their parents. A spokesperson for Governor… pic.twitter.com/eCKH6fxjzx
GEOFF BENNETT: California's governor is criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to temporarily block a state law banning public schools from outing transgender students to their parents. A spokesperson for Governor Gavin Newsom said 'teachers should be focused on teaching, not forced to be gender cops.'
The law bans automatic parental notification if students change their gender identity or pronouns. California officials had argued that it gave students privacy, especially if they feared rejection from their families. But the Supreme Court sided with Christian groups who say it allowed schools to mislead parents.
Somehow, you're "gender cops" if you don't hide students pretending they're the opposite sex in school. Teachers should be focused on teaching, not on leftist social engineering.
If you still drop about four bucks and pick up actual newspapers, The Wall Street Journal had nothing.
The New York Times published a story on Page A-15 under the headline "Supreme Court Sides with Religious Parents, Blocking Trans Policy."
The Washington Post alerted readers to its Page A-3 story on the front page: "The high court blocked enforcement for now of California policies that discourage educators from telling parents about a student's sexual orientation or identity without consent." The headline inside the paper was "Christian parents notch victory in fight over trans policies."
