New York Times Under Fire for Coverage of Transgender Issues
In an ironic change of fate, The New York Times is facing backlash from the radical left for their coverage of transgender issues over the past year.
In an open letter, about 200 NYT contributors addressed the associate managing editor for standards at the New York Times, stating that the paper has a history of using “a mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language” when covering stories related to transgender children.
“We write to you as a collective of New York Times contributors with serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper’s reporting on transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people.”
“The newspaper’s editorial guidelines demand that reporters ‘preserve a professional detachment, free of any whiff of bias’ when cultivating their sources, remaining ‘sensitive that personal relationships with news sources can erode into favoritism, in fact or appearance.’ Yet the Times has in recent years treated gender diversity with an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language, while publishing reporting on trans children that omits relevant information about its sources.“
Open letter written by NYT Contributors
According to NPR, “A group of more than 130 LGBTQ advocates and organizations released a coordinated but separate statement on Wednesday accusing the Times of coverage that elevates harmful and false information about trans issues and is ‘damaging to the paper’s credibility.'”
The New York Times has a long history of promoting left-wing talking points and attacking individuals characterized as being right-wing. For example, the paper has platformed author Nichole Hannah-Jones’ The 1619 Project, a radical rewriting of American history that aligns with the teachings of critical race theory. The New York Times also showed hostility towards former writer Bari Weiss, a former writer who was harassed and pushed out of the company by her colleagues for not sharing their far-left beliefs.
Oddly enough, when it comes to the heated topic of transgender children, The New York Times has shown a willingness to report both sides of the issue. The paper has published several stories about ‘detransitioners’ who regret the medical treatments they went through to make their body look more like the opposite sex. The newspaper also reported on the long-term physical effects of transitioning children in an article published last year titled, “Puberty Blockers Can Help Transgender Youth. Is There A Cost?”
The writers of the open letter claim they want the New York Times to cover transgender issues “fairly.” But to them, coverage is only deemed “fair” if it aligns exactly with their views. The radical left continually does this routine where they characterize the beliefs of those who think children should not be allowed to medically transition as “acts of violence.” Many on the left go so far as to claim that if you don’t allow children to medically transition, you are denying them of their identity and committing violence towards them. These allegations are absurd. By allowing stories that criticize the medical transition of minors, the New York Times is actually engaging in journalism.
Journalists are supposed to be the opponents of politicians. To be a journalist means that you shed light on the truth that lies beneath propaganda. The left is so used to legacy media promoting their talking points that when a news outlet breaks ranks and actually reports the truth, they don’t know how to respond.
When it comes to cancel culture no one is safe. In the end, the left will always eat their own.
