The timeline below tracks the total weekly mentions of the words "trans" or "transgender" across CNN, MSNBC/MSNOW and Fox News since July 2009, using 7-week rolling average smoothing. We can see Fox first pivoted to covering transgender topics far more than its peers in March 2023, then slowly decreased its coverage over the coming months, then surged in February 2025 and has remained highly elevated even as CNN and MSNBC/MSNOW mention the words far less in their weekly coverage.
