Back in April 1992 Rupert Murdoch’s  UK tabloid newspaper The Sun ran a headline, “It’s The Sun Wot  Won It. The boast was that it claimed the unexpected victory of the Conservative Party in the 1992 general election. The Sun had the widest circulation in the country, but Murdoch also owned The Times, regarded as the grandest of UK newspapers. He was very much in complete charge, even though in a 2007 meeting with the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications, which was investigating media ownership and the news, Murdoch stated that the law and the independent board prevented him from exercising editorial control.

However, Murdoch’s US media empire, based around FOX news is much larger and has an even bigger presence and power on the right wing of politics.  Murdoch and his son, who are in the process of getting ready to step in his shoes when he eventually retires, still push their own ultra-conservative agenda. Fox News’ reporting on transgender people is so relentless, its article count is quite literally dwarfing every other news publication – including LGBTQ+ news brands.

Fox News produced almost 1,000 anti-trans articles in 2025   It therefore comes as no surprise to learn that Fox News‘ articles constituted over half of all anti-trans coverage produced by six of the top conservative outlets in the US, according to statistics published by researcher Jessica Kant.

According to the organisation, Fox News’ television channel spent more than four hours lauding The Orange Man’s anti-trans executive orders between 20 January and 19 February.