The lies are already in the headline. CNN sets us up with:

Trans swimmer’s teammates claim she has ‘unfair advantage’

Scare-quotes on unfair advantage, no scare-quotes on trans or she.

Which is the real fiction here? That a large young man has an athletic advantage over young women? Or that a large young man who didn’t do particularly well competing against men but is breaking records competing against women turns out to be a woman?

Which is the more hard to believe of the two claims? Is it hard to believe that a large man has an athletic advantage over women? Is it hard to believe that a man who was meh swimming with men last year but now smashes records swimming with women is literally a woman?

I say no to the first and yes to the second. Of course it’s not hard to believe that a large man has an athletic advantage over women. (It’s also not hard to believe that a small man has such an advantage, but his size makes the nonsense all the more obvious.) Of course it is hard to believe that that same large man is actually a woman just because he says so.

You could make a credibility score, and the difference between the two scores would be stark…unless you cheated, as so many people are doing.

And yet, a reputable news outlet like CNN puts the scare quote on “unfair advantage” and leaves the “trans” and “she” alone, thus nudging readers into believing the grotesquely manipulative dishonest ideology.

Updating to add – All that and still I missed one.

“Claim” – it was right there and I missed it. The women “claim” the hulking man has an unfair advantage over them. Bitches. Karens. Terfs.