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The Daily Caller vs. transgender people

The Daily Caller is an American conservative group blog that publishes consistently anti-transgender content.

Background

Daily Caller was founded in 2010 by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel, carlson’s former college roommate and advidor to Dick Cheney. It was created as a “conservative answer to The Huffington Post.” Foster Friess provided $3 million on startup funding. In June 2020, Carlson was bought out by Patel and left the project.

In July 2010 Daly Caller published leaked emails from JournoList, a trans-exclusionary private online forum for elite journalists. February 2012 the published several hit pieces on internal operations at Media Matters for America.

In November 2016 Vince Coglianese replaced Carlson as editor-in-chief. In 2017, they founded Check Your Fact, a for-profit “fact-checking” subsidiary wholly owned by The Daily Caller, Inc. In November 2024, Dylan Housman became editor in chief.

In 2020, they founded the nonprofit Daily Caller News Foundation.

Anti-trans coverage

Daily Caller frequently covers anti-trans stories about transgender athletes and healthcare for trans and gender diverse minors.

Contributors

Contributors who have written about trans topics include:

References

Marx, Greg (March 2, 2010). Carlson Calling. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/carlson_calling.php

Resources

The Daily Caller (dailycaller.com)

  • Transgender
  • dailycaller.com/search/?q=transgender
  • DC Trawler
  • dctrawler.dailycaller.com

Check Your Fact (checkyourfact.com)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Grokipedia (grokipedia.com)

Propublica (projects.propublica.org)