New York Times punches back after Hollywood celebs, GLAAD slam reporting on trans medical treatment

GLAAD has launched a campaign to excoriate The New York Times for their surprisingly mostly objective reporting on the trans craze that is sweeping the western world. But the Times, to their credit, stands by their reporting. 

Anyone who understands that there are differences between men and women and that biological sex is an immutable condition has been pleasantly surprised to see the almost unbiased coverage of the divisive issue in The New York Times of late. But for those beholden to the gender cult, who have cast their allegience entirely to gender ideology, the tone of the Times has been nothing short of transphobic and hateful.

So reads an open letter to the Times, signed by a long list of Times contributors and advocates for the trans cause and published by GLAAD. Another letter was sent to back up the first letter, and the whole thing is part of an anti-NYT campaign launched by GLAAD.

Among those who signed the letters are Hollywood celebs Gabrielle Union, Judd Apatow, Tommy Dorfman, Jonathan Van Ness, Margaret Cho, Jameela Jamil, Lena Dunham, Joey Soloway, and Wilson Cruz, among others. Disney-backed GLSEN, along with the Human Rights Campaign, National Black Justice Coalition, Women’s March, National LGBTQ Task Force, PFLAG National, the Transgender Law Center, and Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund also signing on.

GLAAD also posted billboards outside the Times offices in New York, which state, essentially, that the Times' coverage of views questioning trans treatment is "questioning trans people's right to exist and access medical care." The demand is that the Times "stop."

"We have had enough," GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said. "The Times’ inaccurate, biased coverage has been cited in legal documents used to justify discrimination and targeting of trans people. This is chilling, and it should give every reader and every leader of the New York Times pause. It’s time for the Times to stop this relentless misinformation disguised as disingenuous 'just asking questions' reporting and ridiculous and harmful opinion pieces that do not represent the reality of trans people’s experiences."

The letter takes issue with the Times' coverage of parental rights in cases where schools have allowed students to socially transition to the opposite sex at school, and investigations into the horrifying and life-destroying side effects of drugs and surgeries used to force a body to present more as the opposite sex than as the natal one. 

The letter claims that a woman who underwent a double mastectomy in service to the idea that she was actually a man, and came to nearly instantly regret it, is simply a member of an anti-trans hate group instead of a woman who has been butchered due to medical lies.

A complaint made by many who have undergone transition only to be spit out the other side with irreparable harm done to body and mind is that the trans community that once embraced them turns on them and vilified them for having left the fold. This letter does that by targeting Grace Lidinsky-Smith.

"As thinkers," the letter states, "we are disappointed to see the New York Times follow the lead of far-right hate groups in presenting gender diversity as a new controversy warranting new, punitive legislation. Puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, and gender-affirming surgeries have been standard forms of care for cis and trans people alike for decades." 

That "standard" has come under question by the very nations that set it and furthered it. That "standard" is now up for debate in medical circles as a 4000 increase in girls identifiying as boys has sent shock waves through communities where girls, en masse, identify as the opposite sex and seek to transition together, much like a gaggle of girls at a high school dance all head off to the bathroom together.

Puberty blockers lead to bone loss, and while the drugs are purportedly intended to be a "pause" where a kid can figure out if they really want to transition, studies of youth who opt for this course of treatment show that once a child is set on the path of gender transition, they seldom stray from the course, in part due to the social pressure to continue. AbbVie maker of the puberty blocking drug Lupron has said outright that no one should be on the drug for more than 3 months, yet many "trans kids" stay on it for years.

Puberty blockers, by definition, must be prescribed prior to the onset of puberty, which means that a child who starts on these drugs does so before they even have a chance to understand what adulthood in their natal sex might be like. Puberty is the cure for gender dysphoria, but for these activists who seek to prop up their ideology, they would rather see generations of kids never grow up naturally than to question the medical science behind interfering with a child's natural development.

They claim that the Times efforts at reporting on this current craze has led to anti-trans bills in many states, though the proponents of those laws would clearly say that their interest is in protecting kids from genital and chemical mutilation at the hands of an ever expanding medical industrial complex that cares more deeply about profits than doing right by confused child and teen patients and their parents.

The Times responded by backing up the reporting that had been done in its pages.

"We received the open letter delivered by GLAAD and welcome their feedback. We understand how GLAAD and the co-signers of the letter see our coverage," Times’ director of external communications Charlie Stadtlander said. "But at the same time, we recognize that GLAAD’s advocacy mission and The Times’s journalistic mission are different. As a news organization, we pursue independent reporting on transgender issues that include profiling groundbreakers in the movement, challenges and prejudice faced by the community, and how society is grappling with debates about care."

"As a news organization," Stadtlander continued, "we pursue independent reporting on transgender issues that include profiling groundbreakers in the movement, challenges and prejudice faced by the community, and how society is grappling with debates about care.

"The very news stories criticized in their letter reported deeply and empathetically on issues of care and well-being for trans teens and adults. Our journalism strives to explore, interrogate and reflect experiences, ideas and debates in society—to help readers understand them. Our reporting did exactly that and we're proud of it."