Saturday, February 18, 2023

NYT Transgender Coverage

First there was the coverage of various issues, mainly related to pediatric medical transition, by people like Katie JM Baker, Azeen Ghorayshi, Emily Bazelon, and Megan Twohey and Christina Jewett (both of Me Too fame), then there was also the transman clinician (professor?) who wrote about transitioners.  

Notably, since their articles came out, Katie JM Baker (who wrote a previous article a few years ago about TERFs and Mumsnet in Britain) and the trans clinician looking into detransitioners deleted their twitter accounts.  Alejandra Caraballo and friends took credit that it must have been due to their bullying.

But now that the GLAAD letter and the letter from the contributors was published, and that the NYT has responded, the union is getting involved.  The allegation is that coverage and editorial choices are a matter of working conditions, creating unsafe working conditions for "LGBTQ" employees.

So another case of attempting to use the language of discrimination on the basis of participants to enforce a new rule of discrimination on the basis of participation type.  

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