Feb 2–3, 2024: “Google’s news index only returns ~390 results before 2017 containing the word “transgender”. After? Somewhere in the neighborhood of 53,400. 49,700 of which were published within the last month or so…many are agitprop from extremist groups that Google stamped as real news. Some are outright fabrications.” — Jessica Kant, Bluesky. See the project background and update from about a year earlier. Data will be going up on GitHub.
‘Free Press’ story misrepresented a kid’s transition (DD)
Jesse Singal detransitions 4-min ⏰
If your main gig is scaremongering about the idea that somewhere a hypothetical child is changing their sex, please detransition away from that activity.
WSJ publishing anti-trans articles (2022) after bomb threats against hospitals and libraries (DD)
‘Hate’ isn’t an element in H2O [Re: Carolina Sanín] 3-min ⏰
Transphobia and racism are harmful and wrong, even if they’re technically legal where we are. We can recognize them and know why they are wrong.
We have to cover ‘both sides’ of trans people existing? (DD)
Epoch TV’s Gender Transformation documentary (DD)
The Federalist has a news category: TRANS INSANITY (DD)
At the New York Times
On trans kids, ask people who know 9-min ⏰⏰
Try looking where the answers are
How does the New York Times know what it thinks it knows? Is it influenced by its peers? Is it what it says it is? Is it ever going to change?
A trans person is trans everywhere we go 4-min ⏰
We belong to the world
If he agrees with the ACLU statement that trans people belong everywhere, why is he arguing with it? What are ‘those heights’ that trans people cannot hit?
What was wrong with Emily Bazelon’s NYT article in 2022? (DD)
Why there’s still an argument about NYT coverage of trans people (Feb 2023) 5-min ⏰
The New York Times is digging in its heels on institutional transphobia
The NYT open letter has been signed by “over 1,200 New York Times contributors and over 34,000 media workers, Times readers, and subscribers.”
NYT Letter about the paper’s coverage of trans people (DD)
One kind of transphobia: Imagining cis-phobia 12-min ⏰⏰⏰
A cis person discusses sex/gender, yet it’s not OK when a trans person does it?
Today’s NYT op-ed shows us, yet again, what transphobic discourse sounds like. Within hours, the rhetoric was tweeted by everyone and their ham sandwich.
Pamela Paul’s latest transphobia 15-min ⏰⏰⏰
‘Let’s Say Gay’ isn’t about the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law
A transphobe has done a public transphobia. Pamela Paul doesn’t want lesbian, gay, and bisexual people to work together with transgender people.
I listened to ‘Free to Be … You and Me’ 9-min ⏰⏰
I turned out trans anyway
Pamela Paul is indeed aware of the existence of trans people, or she wouldn’t have written three anti-transgender articles this year. It’s on purpose.
How to argue transphobically that you’re not transphobic 10-min ⏰⏰
Pamela Paul’s most recent NYT op-eds
People are signing a letter asking the NYT to stop being transphobic, but the NYT keeps publishing Pamela Paul’s disparaging drivel against trans people.
Why this trans person is tired of Pamela Paul’s columns 10-min ⏰⏰
She could just stop talking about us. She could talk about anything else.
I could write a book she’d enjoy, except she wouldn’t love a book by an author she knew to be transgender. This is what I mean by transphobia.
Pamela Paul isn’t sympathetic to trans adults either 9-min read ⏰⏰
Yes, Republicans threaten the rights of trans adults. No, I don’t believe Pamela Paul really cares.
Is there any specific legal right, specific type of access to resources, or specific type of respect she believes we should have? Tell me if you know.
Pamela Paul also mentioned here: July 2022 and February 2024 (DD)
Tucker Lieberman 