CNN report on transgender laws claims 'there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth'

The new network was ridiculed online for the absurd statement

 

A CNN report documenting policies about transgender rights across the nation was ridiculed when it claimed that there was no consensus on the criteria to assign sex at birth.

The report was published Tuesday and immediately elicited mockery online.

Though the two executive orders signed by Noem do not explicitly mention transgender athletes, they reference the supposed harms of the participation of "males" in women's athletics -- an echo of the transphobic claim, cited in other similar legislative initiatives, that transgender women are not women. The orders also reference "biological sex," a disputed term that refers to the sex as listed on students' original birth certificates.

It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth.