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They light a match and hi their hands behd bothsisism, but the only two sis a genoci are right and wrong.”</p></div></div><div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The sentiments were by no means random. On Feb. 15, a group of Tim ntributors and staffers — some of whom are transgenr, nonbary or genr-nonnformg — <a href=" target=_blank>released a letter</a> takg the paper to task for s verage of transgenr youths, wh a particular foc on several stori focg on medil treatments for children transn. The whole bundle, argued the letter, amounted to an “eerily faiar mix of psdoscience and phemistic, charged language, while publishg reportg on trans children that oms relevant rmatn about s sourc.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">GLAAD, an LGBTQ+ media advocy anizatn, also released <a href=" target=_blank>a cril letter</a> on the same day and has kept the prsure on: A digal billboard tck om GLAAD and allied anizatns <a href=" target=_blank>appeared on April 17 outsi the paper’s headquarters</a>, bearg msag such as “Dear New York Tim: Stop Qutng Trans People’s Right to Exist & Accs to Medil Care.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-eyhHZm wpds-c-eyhHZm-igCbUYf-css"><div data-state="closed"><button type="button" aria-ntrols="" aria-expand="false" data-state="closed" class="wpds-c-kCVdRh"><div class="wpds-c-qEzGg"><span class="wpds-c-diBAsU"><span data-ttid="avatar" class="wpds-c-qhccP wpds-c-qhccP-dBwtqg-size-200"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:le-block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:relative;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;max-width:100%"><img style="display:block;max-width:100%;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0" alt="" aria-hidn="te" src="data:image/svg+xml,></span><img alt="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="trsic" class="wpds-c-cNQNEw" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;background-size:ver;background-posn:0% 0%;filter:blur(20px);background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http%3A//; 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Sulzberger mentned that a newsroom staffer volved the verage had been “nonted her neighborhood” and spat upon.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The New York Tim has been targeted part bee ’s the New York Tim — not only a powerful media anizatn but also one that domat progrsive headspace. When liberals bee disenchanted wh the paper’s verage — as they did many tim durg the Tmp admistratn — they roar wh a fury rarely directed at other outlets guilty of the same alleged offens. Last year, for example, Rters ran a <a href=" target=_blank>seri</a> of <a href=" target=_blank>peratg</a> <a href=" target=_blank>stori</a> on health re for trans children — cg many of the same ncerns as the ntroversial Tim articl — and walked away whout triggerg a months-long mpaign.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">So, y, the outcry agast the Tim is unrstandable on one level: Its recent verage of trans issu, cludg major piec ced the plats, has foced on bat among medil experts over the treatment of trans youths. The bat, turn, have been weaponized by anti-trans forc to promulgate measur curtailg re for this already vulnerable populatn. As the Tim self reported April, nservativ have ed trans inty and pecially re for mors as <a href=" target=_blank>a new wedge issue to drive voters</a> to the right, replacg what some see as the lost e of stoppg same-sex marriage. It’s not hard to see how trans youths, their fai and their advot might e to view the Tim as a hostile force.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But there’s a place for petent and passnate discsn of the medil issu alongsi the other trans verage provid the pag of the Tim: discrimatn agast trans people, profil of signifint and memorable trans figur, obuari and a great al more. The work of the Tim on trans issu over the past few years has been varied, rigoro, newsworthy and factual a way that rms the paper’s rears.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The ntributors’ letter falls short of the standards, and the rollg billboards are no better. That weakns masks the real purpose of the effort agast the Tim, which is to disurage -pth stori on trans health re or put an end to such verage altogether.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="YPPX3FT7VFDQRAQ3VELV3P3UKU"><div>Letter prompts backlash agast the Tim</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For a mediasphere already saturated wh media cricism, the duelg letters on Tim trans verage gaed extraordary tractn, lnchg a val of follow-up stori om <a href=" target=_blank>NPR</a>, <a href=" target=_blank>WNYC</a>, the <a href=" target=_blank>Guardian</a>, <a href=" target=_blank>Vany Fair</a>, the <a href=" target=_blank>Daily Beast</a>, <a href=" target=_blank>Semafor</a>, <a href=" target=_blank>Vox </a>and others. The outburst has been slow to taper off; jt weeks ago, Fairns & Accuracy Reportg (FAIR) <a href=" target=_blank>published a story headled</a> “NYT’s Anti-Trans Bias — by the Numbers.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Though the criqu ced some verage the opn sectn of the Tim, they’re centered on a handful of -pth stori on trans children s Sunday magaze and on s ont page om June 2022 to January 2023. A breakdown of the stori:</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><ul class="font--article-body font-py gray-darkt mt-0 mr-lg ml-lg mb-md list"><li class="pb-xs"><span>June 10, 2022: Tim reporter Azeen Ghorayshi <a href=" target=_blank>examed a report</a> fdg that the “number of young people who intify as transgenr has nearly doubled recent years.”</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span>June 15, 2022: Magaze wrer Ey Bazelon, “<a href=" target=_blank>The Battle Over Genr Therapy</a>,” explored efforts by the World Profsnal Associatn for Transgenr Health (WPATH) to update s standards of re for adolcents seekg genr-affirmg re — a ght procs rife wh disagreements among provirs of medil re for trans youths. A draft of those guil, noted Bazelon, remend two ndns before preteens and teenagers beg takg puberty supprsants and hormon: “provi evince of ‘several years’ of persistently intifyg as, or behavg typilly like, another genr, to distguish kids wh a long history om those whose stated intifitn is recent”; and a “prehensive diagnostic asssment, for the purpose of unrstandg the psychologil and social ntext of their genr inty and how might tersect wh other mental-health ndns.” Those measur, as the story ma clear, drew nmnatns om some who object to “gatekeepg” remendatns on medil re for trans youths. Bazelon also surveyed the history of medil re for the patients, highlightg the work of a Dutch clic that veloped a reful asssment “for young people who seemed like ndidat for medil treatment,” noted the story.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span>Sept. 26, 2022: Ghorayshi reported on how trans youths are creasgly embracg <a href=" target=_blank>breast removal surgery</a> (which remas very rare).</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span>Nov. 14, 2022: Megan Twohey and Christa Jewett <a href=" target=_blank>reported on</a> growg ncern the medil muny about givg puberty blockers to children as part of their genr-affirmg re. The piece discsed the treatment’s impact on bone nsy, bra velopment and other nsiratns.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span>Jan. 22, 2023: Katie J.M. Baker <a href=" target=_blank>reported on</a> the prsur facg school districts that ply wh the requts of children who don’t want their parents to know about their social transns.</span></li></ul></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The dismay over the stori has spltered to sr of distct plats. Here’s a look at the ma tegori (addrsed below no particular orr):</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><b>“Bulk and repetn”</b>: In late January, journalist Tom Sc wrote <a href=" target="_blank">a crique</a> Popula of Tim ont-page articl on “re and support for young trans people” over the precedg eight months, cg a total unt of more than 15,000 words (<a href=" target="_blank">he later revised the unt to approximately 14,000</a>); that unt don’t clu Bazelon’s piece. The clter, nclud Sc, suggted a possible agenda. “The Tim’ genr-treatment verage sists, through s sheer bulk and repetn, that there is somethg particularly wrong about the way young people who intify as trans are receivg re,” he wrote.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><b>“Ty percentage”</b>: The Tim ntributors regret that some good reportg by the newspaper has been “eclipsed” by the stori highlighted Sc’s crique. “A ty percentage of the populatn is trans, and an even smaller percentage of those people face the type of nflict the <i>Tim</i> is so tent on magnifyg,” read the ntributors’ letter.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><b>Medil nsens</b>: The GLAAD letter noted that “every major medil associatn supports genr-affirmg re as bt practic re that is safe and lifavg and has wispread nsens the medil and scientific muni.” What’s more, said Sarah Kate Ellis, print and chief executive of GLAAD, the Tim has published “excsive, biased and alarmist verage that mak no sense.” The succsn of ont-page stori, she told the Erik Wemple Blog, looks outsize when nsirg that trans people themselv make up a “small muny.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><b>A dark chapter at the Tim: </b>The ntributors’ letter — and <a href=" target=_blank>other criqu</a> — has drawn parallels between the Tim’s history of homophobia the 20th century and current verage of transgenr people. “You no doubt rell a time more recent history when was ordary to speak of homosexualy as a disease at the Amerin fay dner table—a norm fostered part by the <i>New York Tim</i>’ track rerd of monizg queers through the ostensible reportg of science,” reads the ntributors’ letter.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><b>Boostg hate groups</b>: Among the most mon attacks on the Tim’s verage of health re for trans youths is the claim that has been bootstrapped by anti-trans lobbi red stat. The ntributors’ letter, for stance, noted that three Tim piec, cludg Bazelon’s, were ced an <a href=" target="_blank">amic brief </a> om the Arkansas attorney general supportg an Alabama law that would crimalize certa genr-affirmg re. (Siarly motivated referenc to Tim work have occurred <a href=" target="_blank">other</a><a href=" target="_blank"> stat</a> as well.) “As thkers, we are disappoted to see the New York Tim follow the lead of <a href=" target="_blank">far-right hate groups</a> prentg genr diversy as a new ntroversy warrantg new, punive legislatn,” said the ntributors’ letter.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="3SQMHH4ERJEFLBHQED7Q6O7P4A"><div>The Tim is verg a legimate news story</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The var objectns to the Tim stori ht at the stak volved verage of transgenr people the days. For a flavor of what’s happeng, jt sn recent headl om Florida, where Gov. <a href=" target="_blank" class="ntextual_lk">Ron DeSantis</a> (R) <a href=" target=_blank>signed wi-rangg anti-trans measur</a>, cludg banng some genr-affirmg treatments for trans youths and prohibg transgenr people om g bathrooms aligng wh their inty while ernment buildgs.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Florida is ridg a dismayg trend: At least <a href=" target="_blank">17 stat have laws rtrictg or banng genr-affirmg re for children</a>. <a href=" target="_blank">Utah</a>, <a href=" target="_blank">Mississippi</a>, <a href=" target="_blank">Kentucky</a>, <a href=" target="_blank">Iowa</a>, <a href=" target="_blank">Kansas</a>, <a href=" target="_blank">Idaho</a> and <a href=" target="_blank">Tennsee</a> — at a mimum — have promulgated anti-trans measur of one sort or another this year. Rponsibily for the iativ rts wh the people who proposed them and voted for them — and certaly not wh the Tim, whose work has been referenced on ocsn to promote them.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The Arkansas amic brief quotg Tim stori, for stance, ced Bazelon’s piece: “more teenagers than ever are seekg transns, but the medil muny that treats them is eply divid about why — and what to do to help them.” It failed to quote the numero passag that support the provisn of genr-affirmg re to children. “Nothg prented Ey’s story supports banng genr therapy for youth nor rtrictg for adults,” said Jake Silverste, edor chief of the Tim magaze.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">What’s more, the brief also ced work om CBS News, The Post, the Enomist and the San Francis Examer, among others. Are they also culpable?</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font--article-body font-py gray-darkt ma-0 pb-md" dir="null">Crics of the Tim’s trans verage are ee to blast the newspaper group letters, tweets and mobile billboards. Attempts to hold the Tim rponsible for bad-fah actors bent on explog s journalism, however, threaten to tablish a standard that would oblerate ntroversial reportg altogether.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">There’s plenty of ntroversy, too, the Tim piec at the center of the ongog backlash. While crics argue that the newspaper is advancg an anti-trans agenda by “jt askg qutns” and otherwise elevatg doubts about treatment, ’s actually quotg the ncerns of people the field wh long track rerds of workg the terts of trans children — such that the broadsis aimed at the newspaper have a shoot-the-msenger flavor to them.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The story on puberty blockers, for stance, nveyed the ncerns of pediatric endocrologist Cathere Gordon, a profsor at Baylor College of Medice, among others. Bazelon’s story filtered the discsn of trans youth treatment standards through Stt Leibowz, a child and adolcent psychiatrist wh a ep résumé<i> </i>on LGBTQ+ issu, among other experts. And Ghorayshi’s story on “top surgery” looked to rearcher Knon MacKnon of York Universy Toronto. “I<i> </i>know personally many, many, many trans men that have benefed and are happy wh their medil transn and their top surgery. I would put myself that tegory,” MacKnon, who is transgenr, told the Tim. “But jt as a rearcher, I do feel like there are qutns that are servg of answers and have implitns for clil re.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">MacKnon’s quote ptured a librated sensibily — embrace the treatments but be aware of their shortgs — that suff the recent Tim verage. An embrace of utn, too, has taken root untri such as Fland and Swen, <a href=" target="_blank">which have moved to rtrict some treatments for transgenr youths</a>.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Providg grist for anti-trans efforts; elevatg doubts about treatment; too many words — the attacks agast the Tim go heavy on nceptual pots part bee the stori themselv were strong on the particulars. The ntributors’ letter, for stance, took a number of swip at the verage yet didn’t really land a blow.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A misfirg allegatn targeted Baker’s January article on the parent-school tugs of war. That story, the letter argued, failed to “make clear that urt s brought by parents who want schools to out their trans children are part of a legal strategy pursued by anti-trans hate groups. The groups have intified trans people as an ‘<a href=" target="_blank">existential threat to society</a>’ and seek to <a href=" target="_blank">replace the Amerin public tn system</a> wh Christian homchoolg, key ntext Baker did not provi to Tim rears.” Actually, the story said about one group qutn: “Its print has spoken <a href=" target="_blank">at nferenc</a> about the ‘existential threat to our culture’ posed by the ‘transgenr movement.’” Sce the ntributors’ letter ced Baker for excludg ntext that she had clud, we asked a group of -thors of the letter whether they should have rrected their own letter. No such amendment, they signaled, would be forthg. “The published versn of the story do not expand upon how that agenda might rm the legal s qutn,” a member of the -thors group emailed . “Name-checkg the threat alone is not providg aquate ntext, pecially as the extent of anti-trans ordatn <a href=" target="_blank">be even clearer</a>.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The ntributors also took aim at Bazelon’s story, claimg that she “quoted multiple expert sourc who have sce <a href=" target=_blank>exprsed regret</a> over their work’s misreprentatn” — a salvo that don’t whstand scty. The letter lked to a nearly <a href=" target=_blank>80-mute podst</a> featurg mentary om historian and scholar Jul Gill-Peterson. Though <a href=" target=_blank>Gill-Peterson said</a> Bazelon terviewed her, the story never mentned or quoted her, raisg qutns as to how Bazelon mischaracterized her work. When the Erik Wemple Blog poted out this disnnect, the letter wrers rpond that the podst ma clear that Bazelon’s story “rts on a factually rrect amg of Jul Gill-Peterson’s work.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The podst did make clear that Gill-Peterson tak umbrage at how Bazelon approach WPATH’s historil role transgenr re. When we asked whether she claims that Bazelon misreprented her work, Gill-Peterson rpond wh a crique cg alleged omissns and other problems wh the story.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">As for other allegatns of misreprentatn, the letter wrers mentned <a href=" target=_blank>Beans Velocci</a>, a historian at the Universy of Pennsylvania who specializ sex, genr and sexualy. “The Battle Over Genr Therapy” summarized and quoted om a <a href=" target=_blank>journal article</a> wrten by Velocci. When we asked Velocci whether that reference misreprented their work, they cled to rpond directly and passed along a lk to <a href=" target=_blank>another nearly 80-mute podst</a> which they cricized Bazelon’s story. “My name and expertise was ed to do anti-trans vlence, so that sucks,” Velocci said the podst. The Tim says that “accurately” ced Velocci’s work orr to clarify “WPATH’s problematic origs the 1950s and 60s, when doctors ma biased cisns to exclu some adult patients om receivg re for medil transn.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In a si-by-si examatn of Velocci’s journal article and Bazelon’s story, we found no misreprentatns.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-VkPmP hi-for-prt"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The ntributors’ letter also knocked Bazelon for g the term “patient zero” — long associated wh the HIV/AIDS epimic — reference to a child who received genr-affirmg re the 1980s. (Silverste told the source had ed the term to intify himself and that the magaze failed to uch quotatn marks. In March, the magaze append an edor’s note to the piece addrsg the matter.) The letter also plaed that Bazelon failed to flag the role of one source, who said she regrets her genr transn, wh GCCAN, “an activist anizatn that ph junk science and partners wh explicly anti⁠-⁠trans hate groups.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Few piec of journalism — at the Tim or otherwise — have been more sctized than Bazelon’s 11,500-pl-word piece, which reflected a mammoth effort to abridge the medil lerature on genr-affirmg re. After all the phback, the story, which was a <a href=" target=_blank>falist for a natnal magaze award</a>, stands tact. “As a parent, you’re not gog to pay the 50 bucks to get through the paywall to get an amic study,” said a D.C.-area “proud mom” of a transgenr boy. The mother relled that Bazelon’s piece was “a b of a turng pot for me and helped me and gave me fort.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Perhaps the most wherg charge the ntributors’ letter claimed that the Tim was publishg “psdoscience” on this topic. We asked the -thors to provi exampl of such errors. They replied wh one: the “patient zero” formulatn.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">There have been other attacks on Tim verage of trans youths. The Twohey-Jewett llaboratn on puberty blockers, for stance, prompted a <a href=" target=_blank>three-page nmnatn</a> om WPATH and s affiliate, USPATH. After readg the crique — which failed to puncture the piece — Twohey requted a discsn wh the anizatn to vet the document’s claims agast the Tim story. Male Dtsch, a physician who is print of USPATH, relled Twohey’s approach: “How dare we qutn her. And she’s tryg to help kids.” Dtsch told she rpond by sayg, “You’re not. You’re not helpg kids wh articl like this.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A Tim spokperson said Twohey sought to addrs “accuraci and mischaracterizatns” that she’d intified the WPATH/USPATH letter. “But Dr. Dtsch largely refed to engage wh the specific ntent of their letter or the article. Dr. Dtsch also said that she did not want news verage that examed qutns wh the field of medil treatment of transgenr youth bee would be ed by those seekg to ban the treatment. She said she preferred there be no verage of this at all.” (Dtsch said she didn’t suggt a “wholale” abandonment of verage; the Tim stands by s acunt.)</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">What is outsize to the crics is, to the Tim, a small subset of s overall verage. A spokperson for the paper claimed that had published “hundreds of articl — wh a llective word unt of 329,000 — specifilly on discrimatn agast transgenr people and/or anti-transgenr legislatn” om January 2020 through the end of April 2023.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">As for verage more generally about transgenr people and issu, the Tim placed s volume at 891,000 words the same time ame, much of which we’ve sifted through recent months.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In article after article, Tim journalists expose bigoted efforts to ny rights to trans people, tell the stori of memorable trans liv and treat the people at the center of ntemporary ntroversi wh humany — a rerd that rebuts the alleged parallels wh the paper’s homophobia of s past. Example: In a January 2022 article on a petn featurg then-Universy of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, a transgenr woman who drove a natnwi ntroversy, reporter Billy Wz <a href=" target=_blank>wrote</a>, “And so if there was somethg endurg about Saturday, was not the two rac that Thomas fortably won or the two relays where she gamely tried. It was the way she rried herself the water — head down, wh grace and ease.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A pair of polics articl zged Republins for “<a href=" target=_blank>offensive language about transgenr people</a>” and an “<a href=" target=_blank>ugly attack</a>” on the transgenr child of a Democratic lawmaker. A recent story, published after the criqu, exposed how Republins behd anti-trans measur <a href=" target=_blank>“have amplified”</a> the voic of a small group of people who once intified as transgenr but no longer do.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Asked about the wir sweep of Tim verage, the letter -thors rpond that their document had acknowledged some fair verage but that the “aim” was to “rebe the alarmg anti-trans bias recent verage of trans issu.” Sc’s rponse to the word unts of the Tim piec: “I’m not sure what overall picture they’re tryg to draw, but my piece arose anilly om my own experience as a subscriber, seeg story after story on the ont page raisg alarms about trans youth. When those evolved om warngs about medil terventns to sremongerg about schools lettg kids e their preferred pronouns, I felt like was pretty clear what was gog on.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Plowg through all the verage tak time, and a mastery of the s and outs n be elive. When we asked GLAAD’s Ellis to ce particular objectns to Bazelon’s piece, for example, she psed before sayg, “I thk the overall amg of , tly. I thk you’re askg for a ltle more tail than I n give at this moment.” (A GLAAD spokperson later sent along ncerns that largely mirrored those of the ntributors’ letter.)</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">On a more basic level, there’s news to ver on this ont. Rters October <a href=" target=_blank>reported</a> on an analysis of surance data and other rerds, revealg that more than 42,000 children ag 6 to 17 were diagnosed wh genr dysphoria 2021, up 70 percent over the prev year. The populatn of children receivg medil treatments for their genr transns is “growg fast,” add Rters, which also noted that genr clics treatg youths have creased om “zero to more than 100 the past 15 years.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Debat among medil provirs over how to treat trans youths, therefore, have wir implitns wh each passg day. 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They light a match and hi their hands behd bothsisism, but the only two sis a genoci are right and wrong.”</p></div></div><div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The sentiments were by no means random. On Feb. 15, a group of Tim ntributors and staffers — some of whom are transgenr, nonbary or genr-nonnformg — <a href=" target=_blank>released a letter</a> takg the paper to task for s verage of transgenr youths, wh a particular foc on several stori focg on medil treatments for children transn. The whole bundle, argued the letter, amounted to an “eerily faiar mix of psdoscience and phemistic, charged language, while publishg reportg on trans children that oms relevant rmatn about s sourc.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">GLAAD, an LGBTQ+ media advocy anizatn, also released <a href=" target=_blank>a cril letter</a> on the same day and has kept the prsure on: A digal billboard tck om GLAAD and allied anizatns <a href=" target=_blank>appeared on April 17 outsi the paper’s headquarters</a>, bearg msag such as “Dear New York Tim: Stop Qutng Trans People’s Right to Exist & Accs to Medil Care.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-eyhHZm wpds-c-eyhHZm-igCbUYf-css"><div data-state="closed"><button type="button" aria-ntrols="" aria-expand="false" data-state="closed" class="wpds-c-kCVdRh"><div class="wpds-c-qEzGg"><span class="wpds-c-diBAsU"><span data-ttid="avatar" class="wpds-c-qhccP wpds-c-qhccP-dBwtqg-size-200"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:le-block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:relative;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;max-width:100%"><img style="display:block;max-width:100%;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0" alt="" aria-hidn="te" src="data:image/svg+xml,></span><img alt="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="trsic" class="wpds-c-cNQNEw" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;background-size:ver;background-posn:0% 0%;filter:blur(20px);background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http%3A//; 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Sulzberger mentned that a newsroom staffer volved the verage had been “nonted her neighborhood” and spat upon.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The New York Tim has been targeted part bee ’s the New York Tim — not only a powerful media anizatn but also one that domat progrsive headspace. When liberals bee disenchanted wh the paper’s verage — as they did many tim durg the Tmp admistratn — they roar wh a fury rarely directed at other outlets guilty of the same alleged offens. Last year, for example, Rters ran a <a href=" target=_blank>seri</a> of <a href=" target=_blank>peratg</a> <a href=" target=_blank>stori</a> on health re for trans children — cg many of the same ncerns as the ntroversial Tim articl — and walked away whout triggerg a months-long mpaign.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">So, y, the outcry agast the Tim is unrstandable on one level: Its recent verage of trans issu, cludg major piec ced the plats, has foced on bat among medil experts over the treatment of trans youths. The bat, turn, have been weaponized by anti-trans forc to promulgate measur curtailg re for this already vulnerable populatn. As the Tim self reported April, nservativ have ed trans inty and pecially re for mors as <a href=" target=_blank>a new wedge issue to drive voters</a> to the right, replacg what some see as the lost e of stoppg same-sex marriage. It’s not hard to see how trans youths, their fai and their advot might e to view the Tim as a hostile force.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">But there’s a place for petent and passnate discsn of the medil issu alongsi the other trans verage provid the pag of the Tim: discrimatn agast trans people, profil of signifint and memorable trans figur, obuari and a great al more. The work of the Tim on trans issu over the past few years has been varied, rigoro, newsworthy and factual a way that rms the paper’s rears.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The ntributors’ letter falls short of the standards, and the rollg billboards are no better. That weakns masks the real purpose of the effort agast the Tim, which is to disurage -pth stori on trans health re or put an end to such verage altogether.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="YPPX3FT7VFDQRAQ3VELV3P3UKU"><div>Letter prompts backlash agast the Tim</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For a mediasphere already saturated wh media cricism, the duelg letters on Tim trans verage gaed extraordary tractn, lnchg a val of follow-up stori om <a href=" target=_blank>NPR</a>, <a href=" target=_blank>WNYC</a>, the <a href=" target=_blank>Guardian</a>, <a href=" target=_blank>Vany Fair</a>, the <a href=" target=_blank>Daily Beast</a>, <a href=" target=_blank>Semafor</a>, <a href=" target=_blank>Vox </a>and others. The outburst has been slow to taper off; jt weeks ago, Fairns & Accuracy Reportg (FAIR) <a href=" target=_blank>published a story headled</a> “NYT’s Anti-Trans Bias — by the Numbers.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Though the criqu ced some verage the opn sectn of the Tim, they’re centered on a handful of -pth stori on trans children s Sunday magaze and on s ont page om June 2022 to January 2023. A breakdown of the stori:</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><ul class="font--article-body font-py gray-darkt mt-0 mr-lg ml-lg mb-md list"><li class="pb-xs"><span>June 10, 2022: Tim reporter Azeen Ghorayshi <a href=" target=_blank>examed a report</a> fdg that the “number of young people who intify as transgenr has nearly doubled recent years.”</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span>June 15, 2022: Magaze wrer Ey Bazelon, “<a href=" target=_blank>The Battle Over Genr Therapy</a>,” explored efforts by the World Profsnal Associatn for Transgenr Health (WPATH) to update s standards of re for adolcents seekg genr-affirmg re — a ght procs rife wh disagreements among provirs of medil re for trans youths. A draft of those guil, noted Bazelon, remend two ndns before preteens and teenagers beg takg puberty supprsants and hormon: “provi evince of ‘several years’ of persistently intifyg as, or behavg typilly like, another genr, to distguish kids wh a long history om those whose stated intifitn is recent”; and a “prehensive diagnostic asssment, for the purpose of unrstandg the psychologil and social ntext of their genr inty and how might tersect wh other mental-health ndns.” Those measur, as the story ma clear, drew nmnatns om some who object to “gatekeepg” remendatns on medil re for trans youths. Bazelon also surveyed the history of medil re for the patients, highlightg the work of a Dutch clic that veloped a reful asssment “for young people who seemed like ndidat for medil treatment,” noted the story.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span>Sept. 26, 2022: Ghorayshi reported on how trans youths are creasgly embracg <a href=" target=_blank>breast removal surgery</a> (which remas very rare).</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span>Nov. 14, 2022: Megan Twohey and Christa Jewett <a href=" target=_blank>reported on</a> growg ncern the medil muny about givg puberty blockers to children as part of their genr-affirmg re. The piece discsed the treatment’s impact on bone nsy, bra velopment and other nsiratns.</span></li><li class="pb-xs"><span>Jan. 22, 2023: Katie J.M. Baker <a href=" target=_blank>reported on</a> the prsur facg school districts that ply wh the requts of children who don’t want their parents to know about their social transns.</span></li></ul></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The dismay over the stori has spltered to sr of distct plats. Here’s a look at the ma tegori (addrsed below no particular orr):</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><b>“Bulk and repetn”</b>: In late January, journalist Tom Sc wrote <a href=" target="_blank">a crique</a> Popula of Tim ont-page articl on “re and support for young trans people” over the precedg eight months, cg a total unt of more than 15,000 words (<a href=" target="_blank">he later revised the unt to approximately 14,000</a>); that unt don’t clu Bazelon’s piece. The clter, nclud Sc, suggted a possible agenda. “The Tim’ genr-treatment verage sists, through s sheer bulk and repetn, that there is somethg particularly wrong about the way young people who intify as trans are receivg re,” he wrote.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><b>“Ty percentage”</b>: The Tim ntributors regret that some good reportg by the newspaper has been “eclipsed” by the stori highlighted Sc’s crique. “A ty percentage of the populatn is trans, and an even smaller percentage of those people face the type of nflict the <i>Tim</i> is so tent on magnifyg,” read the ntributors’ letter.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><b>Medil nsens</b>: The GLAAD letter noted that “every major medil associatn supports genr-affirmg re as bt practic re that is safe and lifavg and has wispread nsens the medil and scientific muni.” What’s more, said Sarah Kate Ellis, print and chief executive of GLAAD, the Tim has published “excsive, biased and alarmist verage that mak no sense.” The succsn of ont-page stori, she told the Erik Wemple Blog, looks outsize when nsirg that trans people themselv make up a “small muny.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><b>A dark chapter at the Tim: </b>The ntributors’ letter — and <a href=" target=_blank>other criqu</a> — has drawn parallels between the Tim’s history of homophobia the 20th century and current verage of transgenr people. “You no doubt rell a time more recent history when was ordary to speak of homosexualy as a disease at the Amerin fay dner table—a norm fostered part by the <i>New York Tim</i>’ track rerd of monizg queers through the ostensible reportg of science,” reads the ntributors’ letter.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><b>Boostg hate groups</b>: Among the most mon attacks on the Tim’s verage of health re for trans youths is the claim that has been bootstrapped by anti-trans lobbi red stat. The ntributors’ letter, for stance, noted that three Tim piec, cludg Bazelon’s, were ced an <a href=" target="_blank">amic brief </a> om the Arkansas attorney general supportg an Alabama law that would crimalize certa genr-affirmg re. (Siarly motivated referenc to Tim work have occurred <a href=" target="_blank">other</a><a href=" target="_blank"> stat</a> as well.) “As thkers, we are disappoted to see the New York Tim follow the lead of <a href=" target="_blank">far-right hate groups</a> prentg genr diversy as a new ntroversy warrantg new, punive legislatn,” said the ntributors’ letter.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-md" id="3SQMHH4ERJEFLBHQED7Q6O7P4A"><div>The Tim is verg a legimate news story</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The var objectns to the Tim stori ht at the stak volved verage of transgenr people the days. For a flavor of what’s happeng, jt sn recent headl om Florida, where Gov. <a href=" target="_blank" class="ntextual_lk">Ron DeSantis</a> (R) <a href=" target=_blank>signed wi-rangg anti-trans measur</a>, cludg banng some genr-affirmg treatments for trans youths and prohibg transgenr people om g bathrooms aligng wh their inty while ernment buildgs.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Florida is ridg a dismayg trend: At least <a href=" target="_blank">17 stat have laws rtrictg or banng genr-affirmg re for children</a>. <a href=" target="_blank">Utah</a>, <a href=" target="_blank">Mississippi</a>, <a href=" target="_blank">Kentucky</a>, <a href=" target="_blank">Iowa</a>, <a href=" target="_blank">Kansas</a>, <a href=" target="_blank">Idaho</a> and <a href=" target="_blank">Tennsee</a> — at a mimum — have promulgated anti-trans measur of one sort or another this year. Rponsibily for the iativ rts wh the people who proposed them and voted for them — and certaly not wh the Tim, whose work has been referenced on ocsn to promote them.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The Arkansas amic brief quotg Tim stori, for stance, ced Bazelon’s piece: “more teenagers than ever are seekg transns, but the medil muny that treats them is eply divid about why — and what to do to help them.” It failed to quote the numero passag that support the provisn of genr-affirmg re to children. “Nothg prented Ey’s story supports banng genr therapy for youth nor rtrictg for adults,” said Jake Silverste, edor chief of the Tim magaze.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">What’s more, the brief also ced work om CBS News, The Post, the Enomist and the San Francis Examer, among others. Are they also culpable?</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font--article-body font-py gray-darkt ma-0 pb-md" dir="null">Crics of the Tim’s trans verage are ee to blast the newspaper group letters, tweets and mobile billboards. Attempts to hold the Tim rponsible for bad-fah actors bent on explog s journalism, however, threaten to tablish a standard that would oblerate ntroversial reportg altogether.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">There’s plenty of ntroversy, too, the Tim piec at the center of the ongog backlash. While crics argue that the newspaper is advancg an anti-trans agenda by “jt askg qutns” and otherwise elevatg doubts about treatment, ’s actually quotg the ncerns of people the field wh long track rerds of workg the terts of trans children — such that the broadsis aimed at the newspaper have a shoot-the-msenger flavor to them.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The story on puberty blockers, for stance, nveyed the ncerns of pediatric endocrologist Cathere Gordon, a profsor at Baylor College of Medice, among others. Bazelon’s story filtered the discsn of trans youth treatment standards through Stt Leibowz, a child and adolcent psychiatrist wh a ep résumé<i> </i>on LGBTQ+ issu, among other experts. And Ghorayshi’s story on “top surgery” looked to rearcher Knon MacKnon of York Universy Toronto. “I<i> </i>know personally many, many, many trans men that have benefed and are happy wh their medil transn and their top surgery. I would put myself that tegory,” MacKnon, who is transgenr, told the Tim. “But jt as a rearcher, I do feel like there are qutns that are servg of answers and have implitns for clil re.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">MacKnon’s quote ptured a librated sensibily — embrace the treatments but be aware of their shortgs — that suff the recent Tim verage. An embrace of utn, too, has taken root untri such as Fland and Swen, <a href=" target="_blank">which have moved to rtrict some treatments for transgenr youths</a>.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Providg grist for anti-trans efforts; elevatg doubts about treatment; too many words — the attacks agast the Tim go heavy on nceptual pots part bee the stori themselv were strong on the particulars. The ntributors’ letter, for stance, took a number of swip at the verage yet didn’t really land a blow.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A misfirg allegatn targeted Baker’s January article on the parent-school tugs of war. That story, the letter argued, failed to “make clear that urt s brought by parents who want schools to out their trans children are part of a legal strategy pursued by anti-trans hate groups. The groups have intified trans people as an ‘<a href=" target="_blank">existential threat to society</a>’ and seek to <a href=" target="_blank">replace the Amerin public tn system</a> wh Christian homchoolg, key ntext Baker did not provi to Tim rears.” Actually, the story said about one group qutn: “Its print has spoken <a href=" target="_blank">at nferenc</a> about the ‘existential threat to our culture’ posed by the ‘transgenr movement.’” Sce the ntributors’ letter ced Baker for excludg ntext that she had clud, we asked a group of -thors of the letter whether they should have rrected their own letter. No such amendment, they signaled, would be forthg. “The published versn of the story do not expand upon how that agenda might rm the legal s qutn,” a member of the -thors group emailed . “Name-checkg the threat alone is not providg aquate ntext, pecially as the extent of anti-trans ordatn <a href=" target="_blank">be even clearer</a>.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The ntributors also took aim at Bazelon’s story, claimg that she “quoted multiple expert sourc who have sce <a href=" target=_blank>exprsed regret</a> over their work’s misreprentatn” — a salvo that don’t whstand scty. The letter lked to a nearly <a href=" target=_blank>80-mute podst</a> featurg mentary om historian and scholar Jul Gill-Peterson. Though <a href=" target=_blank>Gill-Peterson said</a> Bazelon terviewed her, the story never mentned or quoted her, raisg qutns as to how Bazelon mischaracterized her work. When the Erik Wemple Blog poted out this disnnect, the letter wrers rpond that the podst ma clear that Bazelon’s story “rts on a factually rrect amg of Jul Gill-Peterson’s work.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The podst did make clear that Gill-Peterson tak umbrage at how Bazelon approach WPATH’s historil role transgenr re. When we asked whether she claims that Bazelon misreprented her work, Gill-Peterson rpond wh a crique cg alleged omissns and other problems wh the story.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">As for other allegatns of misreprentatn, the letter wrers mentned <a href=" target=_blank>Beans Velocci</a>, a historian at the Universy of Pennsylvania who specializ sex, genr and sexualy. “The Battle Over Genr Therapy” summarized and quoted om a <a href=" target=_blank>journal article</a> wrten by Velocci. When we asked Velocci whether that reference misreprented their work, they cled to rpond directly and passed along a lk to <a href=" target=_blank>another nearly 80-mute podst</a> which they cricized Bazelon’s story. “My name and expertise was ed to do anti-trans vlence, so that sucks,” Velocci said the podst. The Tim says that “accurately” ced Velocci’s work orr to clarify “WPATH’s problematic origs the 1950s and 60s, when doctors ma biased cisns to exclu some adult patients om receivg re for medil transn.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In a si-by-si examatn of Velocci’s journal article and Bazelon’s story, we found no misreprentatns.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-VkPmP hi-for-prt"><div></div></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The ntributors’ letter also knocked Bazelon for g the term “patient zero” — long associated wh the HIV/AIDS epimic — reference to a child who received genr-affirmg re the 1980s. (Silverste told the source had ed the term to intify himself and that the magaze failed to uch quotatn marks. In March, the magaze append an edor’s note to the piece addrsg the matter.) The letter also plaed that Bazelon failed to flag the role of one source, who said she regrets her genr transn, wh GCCAN, “an activist anizatn that ph junk science and partners wh explicly anti⁠-⁠trans hate groups.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Few piec of journalism — at the Tim or otherwise — have been more sctized than Bazelon’s 11,500-pl-word piece, which reflected a mammoth effort to abridge the medil lerature on genr-affirmg re. After all the phback, the story, which was a <a href=" target=_blank>falist for a natnal magaze award</a>, stands tact. “As a parent, you’re not gog to pay the 50 bucks to get through the paywall to get an amic study,” said a D.C.-area “proud mom” of a transgenr boy. The mother relled that Bazelon’s piece was “a b of a turng pot for me and helped me and gave me fort.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Perhaps the most wherg charge the ntributors’ letter claimed that the Tim was publishg “psdoscience” on this topic. We asked the -thors to provi exampl of such errors. They replied wh one: the “patient zero” formulatn.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">There have been other attacks on Tim verage of trans youths. The Twohey-Jewett llaboratn on puberty blockers, for stance, prompted a <a href=" target=_blank>three-page nmnatn</a> om WPATH and s affiliate, USPATH. After readg the crique — which failed to puncture the piece — Twohey requted a discsn wh the anizatn to vet the document’s claims agast the Tim story. Male Dtsch, a physician who is print of USPATH, relled Twohey’s approach: “How dare we qutn her. And she’s tryg to help kids.” Dtsch told she rpond by sayg, “You’re not. You’re not helpg kids wh articl like this.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A Tim spokperson said Twohey sought to addrs “accuraci and mischaracterizatns” that she’d intified the WPATH/USPATH letter. “But Dr. Dtsch largely refed to engage wh the specific ntent of their letter or the article. Dr. Dtsch also said that she did not want news verage that examed qutns wh the field of medil treatment of transgenr youth bee would be ed by those seekg to ban the treatment. She said she preferred there be no verage of this at all.” (Dtsch said she didn’t suggt a “wholale” abandonment of verage; the Tim stands by s acunt.)</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">What is outsize to the crics is, to the Tim, a small subset of s overall verage. A spokperson for the paper claimed that had published “hundreds of articl — wh a llective word unt of 329,000 — specifilly on discrimatn agast transgenr people and/or anti-transgenr legislatn” om January 2020 through the end of April 2023.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">As for verage more generally about transgenr people and issu, the Tim placed s volume at 891,000 words the same time ame, much of which we’ve sifted through recent months.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In article after article, Tim journalists expose bigoted efforts to ny rights to trans people, tell the stori of memorable trans liv and treat the people at the center of ntemporary ntroversi wh humany — a rerd that rebuts the alleged parallels wh the paper’s homophobia of s past. Example: In a January 2022 article on a petn featurg then-Universy of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, a transgenr woman who drove a natnwi ntroversy, reporter Billy Wz <a href=" target=_blank>wrote</a>, “And so if there was somethg endurg about Saturday, was not the two rac that Thomas fortably won or the two relays where she gamely tried. It was the way she rried herself the water — head down, wh grace and ease.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">A pair of polics articl zged Republins for “<a href=" target=_blank>offensive language about transgenr people</a>” and an “<a href=" target=_blank>ugly attack</a>” on the transgenr child of a Democratic lawmaker. A recent story, published after the criqu, exposed how Republins behd anti-trans measur <a href=" target=_blank>“have amplified”</a> the voic of a small group of people who once intified as transgenr but no longer do.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Asked about the wir sweep of Tim verage, the letter -thors rpond that their document had acknowledged some fair verage but that the “aim” was to “rebe the alarmg anti-trans bias recent verage of trans issu.” Sc’s rponse to the word unts of the Tim piec: “I’m not sure what overall picture they’re tryg to draw, but my piece arose anilly om my own experience as a subscriber, seeg story after story on the ont page raisg alarms about trans youth. When those evolved om warngs about medil terventns to sremongerg about schools lettg kids e their preferred pronouns, I felt like was pretty clear what was gog on.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Plowg through all the verage tak time, and a mastery of the s and outs n be elive. When we asked GLAAD’s Ellis to ce particular objectns to Bazelon’s piece, for example, she psed before sayg, “I thk the overall amg of , tly. I thk you’re askg for a ltle more tail than I n give at this moment.” (A GLAAD spokperson later sent along ncerns that largely mirrored those of the ntributors’ letter.)</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">On a more basic level, there’s news to ver on this ont. Rters October <a href=" target=_blank>reported</a> on an analysis of surance data and other rerds, revealg that more than 42,000 children ag 6 to 17 were diagnosed wh genr dysphoria 2021, up 70 percent over the prev year. The populatn of children receivg medil treatments for their genr transns is “growg fast,” add Rters, which also noted that genr clics treatg youths have creased om “zero to more than 100 the past 15 years.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Debat among medil provirs over how to treat trans youths, therefore, have wir implitns wh each passg day. 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