Carla Jaeger seems to have a bit of a specialty in reporting on men who claim to be trans invading women’s sports. Her specialty is carefully concealing the fact that she’s talking about men invading women’s sports. I shared today’s entry; there’s another from four days ago.

In March, Harcourt and Robinson formed part of the three-person panel assembled by Basketball Australia to assess the eligibility of transgender basketballer Lexi Rodgers, who applied to join the semi-professional WNBL1 South league. The application was rejected after a near-month long assessment.

Yebbut transgender how? Which kind of transgender?

She doesn’t say. Not only does she not say here at first mention, she never says. She never once spells out that Lexi Rodgers is a trans woman aka a man. Why not? I can only conclude because she or her editors or both are hell bent on promoting men in women’s sports at the expense of women in women’s sports, and willing to do bad journalism in service to this cause.

When empathy comes up, it’s all for the men who say they are women. Women don’t get any empathy.

Compelled by her recent work with transgender athletes (a “really rewarding experience”), Robinson – a professor at the University of Notre Dame – said above all, the issue must be approached with empathy, sensitivity and with an informed mindset.

“The [transgender] athletes I’ve dealt with thus far are very genuine. They’re very keen,” Robinson said.

That’s nice, but what about the women athletes? Why no empathy and sensitivity for them?

Harcourt said: “The gains in women’s sport is significant, and we don’t want to lose that. Not that I think transgender [inclusion] is a risk of that – it’s not, not at all.

“But I don’t think people realise that yet.”

Probably because it’s a big honking lie.