Fox News produces more trans articles than any other outlet

Fox News’ reporting on transgender people is so relentless, its article count is quite literally dwarfing every other news publication – including LGBTQ+ news brands.

The Murdoch-owned American news publication reportedly published more articles referencing the trans community in 2025 than any other news outlet, according to statistics published by researcher Jessica Kant.

Highlighting her findings in a report on Sunday (8 February), Kant noted that Fox News‘ articles constituted over half of all anti-trans coverage produced by six of the top conservative outlets in the US.

While the number of articles fluctuates massively each month, it has remained almost consistently higher than any other news outlet in the US since 2023 alone.

In fact, Fox News’ has written more articles referencing trans people than there are days in the year for nearly four years, trumping outlets like The Advocate, NBC News, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.

The latest figures come as part of Kant’s ongoing research tracking anti-trans news coverage in the US and UK. She began the initiative after noticing the “astronomical” rise in stories about trans people, with 2025 being no exception.

“Every time I think I’ve scratched the surface of what I’ve come to call ‘the outrage factory’, I lose an entire weekend combining through stacks of awfulness that takes a whole bank of monitors to see,” she said.

Kant segmented each annual dataset, indexed through Google News search results, into three keywords; ‘biological sex’, ‘gender identity’, and ‘transgender’.

‘Transgender’ is by far the most used term by Fox News, as well as other news outlets, while ‘biological sex’ and ‘gender identity’ fluctuate in usage each month.

Fox News produced almost 1,000 anti-trans articles in 2025

Last year was by far the worst year for the outlet’s anti-trans news coverage, with articles containing the term ‘transgender’ reaching almost 1,000 by the end of the year.

In the same year, US LGBTQ+ news brand The Advocate produced just under 500 articles containing the word ‘transgender’. The New York Times, which has faced criticism for its anti-trans reporting, published just over 500 last year.

Kant said using three keywords only provides a “sample” of the breadth of Fox News’ anti-trans coverage. Terms such as ‘gender ideology’, ‘gender confusion’, and ‘transgenderism’ were also commonly used by the outlet. The data does not track the word ‘trans’, which is often used in place of ‘transgender’.

She noted that this unrelenting campaign of anti-trans news coverage serves to undo progress for trans rights by “emphasising sex and gender strategically”.

“A large part of destigmatisation of transgender people and our lives hinged on cleaving apart the discussion of ‘sex versus gender’ from our basic existence as transgender people,” she said.

“Put most simply, for the briefest possible moment in time rather than providing qualifiers or over-emphasising assigned sex at birth or equivocating on whether we know we are who we say we are, the word ‘transgender’ became a proper adjective.”

The findings are consistent with several reports from Media Matters for America, a non-profit aimed at confronting far-right rhetoric in broadcast and online.

According to the organisation, Fox News’ television channel spent more than four hours lauding US president Donald Trump’s anti-trans executive orders between 20 January and 19 February.

Interestingly, the term ‘biological sex’ is used far more often by UK outlets, likely because of its common usage by ‘gender-critical’ groups, as well as the UK Supreme Court’s judgment on the definition of ‘sex’ in the 2010 Equality Act.