WJLA Reporter Nick Minock did a recent story that is getting some political play.

But, the person the story is focused on, is crying foul.

Minock, who work’s a Sinclair’s DC station is a former Trump admin appointee in the Transportation Department.

Some DC Journalists say that Minock did a very misleading story on Virginia politics that has now gained the attention of several high profile conservatives, including Ted Cruz.

In Virginia, as well as many other parts of the country, there is a growing conservative movement to restrict the rights of transgender people and specifically transgender students. Virginia's Republican Governor is in the process of restricting existing rights for transgender students in K12 schools - it's been a hot button issue to say the least.

Minock did an interview with a democratic Virginia State Delegate Elizabeth Guzman who previously introduced a bill to specific that parents who abuse their children on their basis of the child's gender identity is punishable by law - though the bill never went anywhere, even among dems, because it would have already been classified as child abuse regardless of the gender identity piece.

Minock's story showed the delegate saying she would re-introduce the bill and the piece made it seem that the democrat wanted to make it criminal for parents not to "affirm" their child's identity. Basically "if you don't affirm your child's identity, you're going to jail." This is not at all what the delegate said nor what the bill would do but that's exactly how Minock reported it and it's blown up. The republican party of Virginia is using it as a platform ahead of the midterms, conservative candidates are fundraising off the story, and Ted Cruz has tweeted about it at least twice.

The delegate, Elizabeth Guzman, has since tweeted a thread in which she calls out the report for being misleading but it seems WJLA is doubling down. WJLA has since posted the entire raw interview with Guzman in which she very clearly says what Minock is trying to push is not at all the case - though that was curiously left out of his report.