The United States Supreme Court handed down two opinions which continue its precedent of protecting women and girls from the ongoing incursion of “trans women” into their athletic endeavors. NBC’s coverage of those rulings can best be described as mournful.  Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, June 30th, 2026 (click "expand" to view transcript): WATCH: @NBCNightlyNews mourns the Supreme Court rulings affirming state prohibitions of men in women's school sports. Note the ACLU attorney saying "it's not about winning trophies, it's about learning life lessons." HALLIE JACKSON: To that other landmark ruling now, this one a… pic.twitter.com/F74cm6B9Vn — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 1, 2026 HALLIE JACKSON: To that other landmark ruling now, this one a win for President Trump- with the conservative majority ruling states can ban transgender women and girls from playing on female sports teams. Here’s Stephanie Gosk. STEPHANIE GOSK: Tonight, President Trump calling it a “big win” while civil rights advocates slam it as a blow to transgender rights. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority upholding state laws banning transgender girls and women from playing on female sports teams in public schools. Justice Brett Kavanaugh writing: “allowing only biological females to play on women’s and girls’ teams can reduce the risk of physical injury and ensure fair competition.” But the ACLU representing the two transgender athletes in the case calling it “devastating.” JOSHUA BLOCK: It's not just about winning trophies; it’s about learning life lessons. GOSK: 27 states currently ban transgender women and girls from participating in female sports, with an NBC News poll last year showing over 75% of Americans support those bans.  Macy Petty Charles celebrating today’s decision. She competed against a transgender athlete and hopes more states would pass bans. MACY PETTY CHARLES: I would hope that it would embolden every state to protect those female athletes and I hope that they themselves are emboldened today to take action- to speak up for what they know is right. GOSK: But critics of the ruling see a silver lining.  So you see it as a loss, but not as big of a loss as it maybe could have been? BLOCK: Absolutely. They didn't write a ticket, you know, for the other side to claim that you can discriminate against transgender people in all other contexts. JACKSON: Stephanie is joining us now and Steph, for states that do allow transgender athletes in women's sports, they can keep that in place, right? GOSK: Yeah, Hallie. This Supreme Court decision does not compel them to change their laws. But there are already lawsuits in some of those places to try and force bans. Hallie. JACKSON: Stephanie Gosk. Thank you. NBC put forth a lot of effort into making the report appear to look balanced. But the framing belied NBC’s bias in favor of the transgender position- especially Stephanie Gosk’s citation of the ACLU calling the opinion “devastating.” Then there was the ACLU attorney’s flippant quote: “It's not just about winning trophies; it’s about learning life lessons.” Unfortunately, many of these girls learned painful lessons they didn’t ask for by being thrown into events with biological males passing themselves off as females. In some cases, they suffered significant physical harm. From Fox News back in 2023: A North Carolina high school volleyball player said she suffered significant and long-term physical and mental injuries last fall when she was spiked in the face by a transgender athlete who was able to compete on a girls’ team because of a policy put in place by the state’s high school athletic association.  Payton McNabb, a senior at Hiwassee Dam High School in Murphy, N.C., spoke out for the first time about her injuries on Wednesday during a press conference where she called on state legislators to pass the Fairness in Women's Sports Act that would prohibit biological males from competing on girls’ sports teams, citing her own experience.  "Due to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association policy of allowing biological males to compete against biological females my life has forever been changed," McNabb said.  This part of the debate was deliberately left out of NBC’s report, as was the plight of women forced to share locker room and bathroom facilities with male athletes. These deliberate omissions were performed in service of casting transgenders as the true, pure victims of the kind of legislation upheld by the Supreme Court. The report closed out with various presentations of silver linings for advocates of the 25% side of a 75/25 issue as acknowledged by NBC. Slop like this might be deemed to be necessary in order for NBC parent company Comcast to hold its perfect Human Rights Campaign equality score. But it further helps to undermine the credibility of the Elitist Media, already at an all-time low.