Critique Accuses Mother Jones of Misusing $1 Million Revenue Claim in Women’s Sports Report
Updated
Updated · Fox News · Sep 14
Critique Accuses Mother Jones of Misusing $1 Million Revenue Claim in Women’s Sports Report
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 14
Summary
A new critique says Mother Jones blurred advocacy and reporting by framing XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey as “profiting” from a “trans panic” without showing whether the company’s reported $1 million first-year revenue produced any profit.
The piece argues Mother Jones also overstated research on transgender victimization and hormone therapy, stripping away study caveats while using the findings to rebut claims about locker-room privacy and competitive fairness in women’s sports.
Seattle rally organizers Jean Chadbourne and Amy Sousa, along with commentator Brandi Kruse, told OutKick they were not contacted, even though Mother Jones tied the July 28 WNBA protest to Sey and broader right-wing activism.
Ahnaleigh Wilson — a high school runner who protested after losing to a male athlete and later said a Seattle Storm owner left her in tears — was reduced to an XX-XY sponsorship, the critique says, while sympathetic treatment went to anonymous trans fans.
The article casts the dispute as part of a wider fight over whether major outlets and sports institutions are marginalizing sex-based arguments in women’s athletics while portraying dissent mainly as political grift.