It is odd that a website that fancies itself as a fact-checking organization would believe that if you repeat a falsehood enough times it eventually becomes true, but that is what PolitiFact is doing with Democrats and transgender sports. In a Thursday article, PolitiFact defended Montana Sen. Jon Tester’s vote that failed to protect the competitive integrity of women’s sports by claiming such attacks are false.
Tester is the third Democratic senator PolitiFact has defended on the issue since October 10 after Ohio’s Sherrod Brown and Nevada’s Jacky Rosen.
For the third time, PolitiFact ignored how conservatives view Title IX’s role in this issue, as Louis Jacobson wrote, “The amendments Tester voted on would have stripped federal funding from schools and colleges that allowed transgender girls and women to compete in sports matching their gender…
