Back in late August of last year, I wrote a short piece on my website that analyzed an article by Evan Urquhart over on Assigned Media, and used that analysis to help discuss the larger reality that the New York Times has been actively selling the justification for an anti-trans pogrom in America, for quite some time. I'll put a link to that piece in the replies below this post, but the plain truth is that despite protestations from critics of my piece insisting I was being alarmist and uncharitable, it seems that the elected fascists actually trying to codify an anti-trans pogrom into the law, certainly noticed the NYT's efforts in this regard; and clearly they agree:
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/02/new-york-times-pamela-paul-anti-trans-bills/
The tl;dr here is that while the Times and its defenders pretend they're simply trying to present "both sides" of trans issues (as if my existence, is an issue you get to "have a side" about) when they publish hatemongers like Pamela Paul and insist they're "just asking questions" and "protecting the children," the GOP/ADF/think tank bigots trying to ban trans medical care, and even trans identities, are now citing these articles in their anti-trans bills and legal arguments. Furthermore, careful analysis of the articles the Times have published clearly indicates that the paper as a whole, seems ideologically aligned *against* trans care; a fact greatly appreciated by bigoted fascist pressure groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom, aka the same people who helped strip abortion rights from American women by helping to overturn Roe v Wade last year.
As this article also notes, both the efforts of the Times, and the efforts of bigoted Republican-aligned political pressure groups, are largely based on disinformation, fearmongering, and debunked arguments from other bigots; creating a sort of feedback loop of hatred and bigotry that is now starting to drive Republican policy - all officially stamped with the legitimacy provided by those arguments appearing in America's paper of record. Quite frankly, I don't think it should have taken a legalist hate-group like the ADF and folks who support conversion therapy citing Pamela Paul's articles for people to see that this was bigoted bullshit and an active campaign to demonize trans people and trans care (particularly for young people.) Trans writers, medical observers, and anyone with a modicum of sense has been telling you so for a good long while; but when the nazis are lovingly citing your "research" in hate bills, the mask has clearly come fully off and no amount of blubbering "both sides" excuses from the Times can hide that anymore.
The New York Times is selling an anti-trans pogrom in progress; just like I, and many others told you, months, if not years ago.
