Accuracy in Media (AIM) is a conservative American media watchdog organization that monitors and reports on media issues. They frequently attack media coverage they consider supportive of trans topics.
Background
AIM was founded in 1969 by Reed Irvine and has several programs critical of what they consider liberal news bias.
Anti-trans activism
AIM has conducted undercover investigations in several school districts, particularly in Texas, exposing administrators advising parents how to sidestep state laws that require trans athletes to compete in sports based on their biological sex. In one video, a school official suggested that presenting a modified out-of-state birth certificate could allow a transgender girl to join girls’ sports teams, despite Texas’ “Save Women’s Sports Act.” This investigation even prompted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to launch a formal probe into the districts involved.
AIM argues that school administrators are coaching parents to withhold or conceal a child’s sex assogned at birth and use altered birth certificates. In Ohio, they recorded a counselor instructing “parents” (undercover AIM operatives) to keep the child’s original birth certificate secret from the school system.
AIM frames these practices as part of “transgender ideology” that represents a radical activism undermining existing laws and parental authority. Their tone suggests that such policies are driven by ideological zeal that deliberately flouts legal boundaries.
As a result of AIM’s investigations, they have triggered real legal and administrative consequences. In Texas, an exposed administrator resigned following the report. In Ohio, their undercover footage of school officials advising how to evade gender-based sports restrictions led to a Title IX complaint being filed with the U.S. Departments of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services.
Reed Irvine Award
They also bestow an annual Reed Irvine Award to media figures whose work promotes conservative viewpoints in the media, including many prominent anti-trans media figures.
Recipients include:
- Jeanine Pirro
- Chris Plante
- Rep. Lamar Smith (R.-Texas)
- Bill Gertz
- Glenn Harlan Reynolds
- Catherine Herridge
- Jim Hoft
- Sharyl Attkisson
- Dana Loesch
- U.S. Navy Capt. Charles Rozier
- Tucker Carlson
- Kenneth R. Timmerman
- Andrew Breitbart
- Marc Morano
- M. Stanton Evans
- Karl S. Denninger
- Lee Edwards
- Michelle Malkin
- Mark M. Alexander
- Harry MacDougald
- Paul Boley
In 2018 AIM announced a rating system to assess news as accurate, debatable, misleading, clear bias, and “fake news.”
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