WI Dem. Gov. Tony Evers Vetoes Bill to Protect Girls' Sports from Trans Athletes

  • Bias Rating

    8% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    84% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

-12% Negative

  •   Liberal
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"The bill would have baed transgender students from picking and choosing which team aligns with their gender identity at any given time and would have restricted them to playing on teams that align with their birth gender, the Milwaukee Sentinel reported."
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14% Conservative
"This type of legislation, and the harmful rhetoric beget by pursuing it, harms LGBTQ Wisconsinites' and kids' mental health, emboldens anti-LGBTQ harassment, bullying, and violence, and threatens the safety and dignity of LGBTQ Wisconsinites, especially our LGBTQ kids, Evers exclaimed in his veto statement."
Positive
2% Conservative
"We expect our kids to treat each other with kindness, respect, empathy, and compassion, and we should be able to expect adults to lead by example, Evers bloviated."
Positive
14% Conservative
"This type of legislation, and the harmful rhetoric beget by pursuing it, harms LGBTQ Wisconsinites' and kids' mental health, emboldens anti-LGBTQ harassment, bullying, and violence, and threatens the safety and dignity of LGBTQ Wisconsinites, especially our LGBTQ kids, Evers exclaimed in his veto statement."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"I will veto any bill that makes Wisconsin a less safe, less inclusive, and less welcoming place for LGBTQ people and kids, Evers added, and I will continue to keep my promise of using every power available to me to defend them, protect their rights, and keep them safe."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Republicans, though, bristled at Evers' accusations and insisted that the purpose of the bill is to protect the safety, fairness, and comfort of the great majority of girls, not to attack the tiny handful of so-called transgender girls who want to play sports on state-sponsored girls' teams."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"GOP Rep. Barbara Dittrich also blasted Evers."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"While (Evers) and his ilk continue to gaslight our citizens that this legislation was about hate and exclusion, he ignores the fact that the legislation provides categories for every Wisconsin student while respecting and protecting the safety and merit of our state's biological girls, Dittrich said."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Wisconsin's liberal Democrat Gov. Tony Evers arranged a showy veto ceremony Tuesday to deny passage to a bill that would protect girls' sports in the Dairy State."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Evers put his veto on the bill in the state capital in Madison surrounded by progressive Democrats and extremist trans activists."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Tony Evers sets himself up against the vast majority of Wisconsinites with this disgraceful veto."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Evers went on to blast Republicans for targeting LGBTQ kids for harm."
Negative
-34% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The bill would have banned transgender students from picking and choosing which team aligns with their gender identity at any given time and would have restricted them to playing on teams that align with their birth gender, the Milwaukee Sentinel reported.
51% : "This type of legislation, and the harmful rhetoric beget by pursuing it, harms LGBTQ Wisconsinites' and kids' mental health, emboldens anti-LGBTQ harassment, bullying, and violence, and threatens the safety and dignity of LGBTQ Wisconsinites, especially our LGBTQ kids," Evers exclaimed in his veto statement.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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