Today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to bar biological men from competing as women, beginning with the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The major broadcast evening newscasts all omitted the story. PBS NewsHour picked it up, in a report containing a significant omission. Watch the brief in its entirety as aired on PBS NewsHour on Thursday, March 26th, 2026: OMISSION: Zero seconds on ABC, CBS, or Olympics broadcast partner NBC on the IOC's decision to ban men cosplaying as women from competing in women's Olympic sports beginning with the 2028 Games in L.A. PBS runs the story, conveniently omitting the 2024 Imane Khelif fiasco pic.twitter.com/lXwKAxTqce — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 27, 2026 JOHN YANG: The International Olympic Committee has banned transgender women from competing -- beginning with the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. This aligns the IOC with President Trump's executive order barring transgender athletes from women's college sports. Athletes wanting to compete in women's events will have to undergo a one-time genetic test. To date, only one openly transgender woman has competed at the Olympics -- a weightlifter from New Zealand in 2021 who did not medal. Not a second of this aired on the ABC, CBS, or NBC evening newscasts. Doing so would have interfered with the networks’ universal coverage of the drunk driver that crashed the gate at Daytona Beach International Airport, sprinted across the tarmac, and attempted to board a plane mid-takeoff before being arrested by law enforcement.  PBS was the sole outlet covering the story, but the report as read by John Yang was fatally flawed. Note the framing about the New Zealand weightlifter being the only “openly transgender woman” to compete in the Games. The use of “openly” in this context seeks to omit a more notorious case that highlights the need for the ban in the first place. Per Fox News: Boxer Imane Khelif admitted to having the SRY gene, located on the Y chromosome, which is found in biological males, and undergoing hormone treatments to lower testosterone levels ahead of the 2024 Olympics in an interview with the French sports publication L'Equipe.  Khelif has denied being transgender.  "We all have different genetics, different hormone levels. I'm not transgender. My difference is natural. This is who I am. I haven't done anything to change the way nature made me. That's why I'm not afraid," Khelif said.  "I have taken hormone treatments to lower my testosterone levels for competitions." Yang makes no mention of the controversy surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif during the 2024 Paris Games, because it obliterates the point with the non-medal-winning weightlifter. Khelif won Olympic women’s gold. What triggered the IOC decision, more than anything, were the chilling images of the Italian female boxer quitting mid-match because she’d never been hit as hard as when her face made contact with Khelif’s manly mitts.  This PBS report presumes either that viewers forgot about Khelif, don’t care, or agree that men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. This is one of those cases where the coverage of a story is objectively worse than if it were simply omitted from the newscast.