The New York Times faced a wave of backlash for a story that referred to biological females as “non-transgender women.”
The story in question, titled “How a Women’s College Volleyball Team Became the Center of the Transgender Athlete Debate,” explored the explosion of protests and forfeitures surrounding San Jose State University and the school’s star player — a trans-identifying male.
When addressing the issue of eligibility for trans-identifying players under the NCAA’s rules, the NYT published the following:
On its website, the N.C.A.A. says trans volleyball players are eligible to play if their testosterone level is less than 10 nanomoles per liter — that’s at least four times more than what many experts say is the top of the range for non-transgender women, and in the typical range for adult men.
As the article itself notes, the normal testosterone level for an…
