CNN is regularly criticized for its unabashed bias for Democrats, but it's reached a new low, blasting a school for refusing "to accommodate trans students."
It came in a Twitter message about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos plan to visit the school.
CNN failed to mention, however, that it is a private Catholic elementary school.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to visit school that refuses to accommodate trans students https://t.co/eVp6WTuYak pic.twitter.com/lenxaR65nA
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 19, 2019
President Trump has called establishment media the "enemy of the people," and Twitter news aggregator Twitchy echoed that in a headline: "CNN Politics' clickbait-swipe at Betsy DeVos for visiting a Catholic grade school is just EMBARRASSING."
Twitter users responding to CNN pointed out that "accommodating" transsexual students would violate Catholic doctrine.
"God bless Catholic schools," wrote Sgt_Hulka.
De Plorabus Unum asked, "What if it was an Islamic school run by a mosque?"
Cryptic Jacknife said, "You mean a private school?"
Twitter user Bekah wrote: "All schools should refuse. Girls need to feel safe, especially when they are nude and vulnerable!"
Matthew Cabral said, "I'm outraged that a Catholic school would do Catholic things."
Rob Roskowiak cleared it up for CNN, "It's a CATHOLIC SCHOOL."
And Kraig Britvec said, "In other word this schools refuses to encourage delusions of students with psychological problems."
One Twitter user noted CNN didn't even get its facts straight.
"At the Catholic school where I work and my daughter attends there is a kid dealing with general identity issues. ... What the archdiocese does not support or accommodate is gender surgery or any kind of medical intervention."
CNN's report said DeVos "will attend a roundtable on Thursday at a Pennsylvania Catholic school that subscribes to an anti-trans student policy.
"Harrisburg Catholic Elementary School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is slated to host the event, according to a department press release – and is subject to the Diocese of Harrisburg's student policy on Gender Identity Questions. The policy characterizes gender-affirming surgery, an option for some transgender individuals, as 'understood in Catholic moral terms as self-mutilation and therefore immoral.'"
Twitchy said: "So a private Catholic elementary school won't accommodate trans-students.
"Private.
"Catholic.
"Elementary school.
"CNN, this is such a bad take."