"The first self-proclaimed “non-binary” Olympian Alana Smith, who competed in women’s skateboarding at the Tokyo Olympics because she is female, received an apology from NBC for “repeatedly misgendering” her during their Tokyo coverage.
In other words, NBC News used female pronouns to refer to a female skateboarder — and they want you to know they’re deeply sorry about it.
...“NBC Sports is committed to — and understands the importance of — using correct pronouns for everyone across our platforms,” NBC Sports’ official statement read.
...“NBC Sports is committed to — and understands the importance of — using correct pronouns for everyone across our platforms,” NBC Sports’ official statement read.
“While our commentators used the correct pronouns in our coverage, we streamed an international feed that was not produced by NBCUniversal which misgendered Olympian Alana Smith. We regret this error and apologize to Alana and our viewers.”...Read all.
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