Is the New York Times turning right-wing? Stop laughing.
According to some far-left gender cultists, in publishing a very few dissents from the pro-trans orthodoxy The Times allowing is towing the line of social conservatives. That will not stand. In a publicity stunt and with an open letter to The Gray Lady (assuming it's still a she). GLAAD and an assortment of woke writers, activists and celebrities called "the Paper of Record" to account.
A few months ago, The Times made a boo-boo. In a piece titled, “They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?” authors pointed out that puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria aren't a perfect solution. While they didn’t explicitly say that kids shouldn't receive transgender treatment, they at the very least acknowledged that these treatments could cause potential issues. For example, “bone density growth [among puberty-blocked adolescents] flatlines.” Even so, they failed to point out the rest of the laundry list of issues caused by puberty blockers. But hey, credit where credit is due.
Related: New York Times FINALLY Acknowledges Puberty Blockers Are Harmful
Adding insult to imagined injury, The Times also hired moderate conservative David French to write a column, which supposedly proves the entire paper’s “anti-trans skew.” Three strikes, you're out! French is very far from most social conservatives in that that he opposes bans on drag queen story hours and thinks critical race theory should be taught in schools. So he’s not even really that conservative, as the National Review remarked in a Feb 15 piece.
But, these hints of right-wingism were enough for the far, far left.
On Feb. 15, GLAAD parked a truck outside of The New York Times building in NYC in protest of the outlet’s supposed “transphobia.”
One screen that was displayed said, “Dear New York Times: Stop questioning trans people’s right to exist & access medical care.” Yeah because kids getting genitally mutilated or taking life altering drugs is “care.” OK, sure.
Of course there's no truth to it, but the young, woke Times newsroom -- the same outrage junkies that claimed an opinion editor's scalp for daring to publish the op-ed of a sitting U.S. senator -- must be mortified. And they're GLAAD's audience for this stunt.
GLAAD also insisted that The Times “continues to platform anti-trans activists over medical experts.” This is all part of a 100+ organization-led initiative to “expose” The Times supposed “anti-trans” bias.
We’ve had enough. We’ve joined over 100 organizations and leaders to demand that @nytimes stop printing inaccurate and harmful misinformation about transgender people and issues. Today we are outside of the Times building to send a clear message. https://t.co/IkQocpsG5q pic.twitter.com/bBVnFoqOjD
— GLAAD (@glaad) February 15, 2023
It’s quite entertaining to watch the left come for the throats of their own.
The Daily Beast reported that the mob sent an open letter to the paper's associate managing editor and “publicly condemned the newspaper … for what some described as following the lead of far-right hate groups’ in its coverage of trans issues” as mentioned.
“As thinkers, 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,” activists wrote.
("Thinkers." That's funny.)
Co-signers claimed one of The Times's pieces “misframed the battle over children’s right to safely transition,” while another “uncritically used the term ‘patient zero’ to refer to a trans child seeking gender-affirming care, a phrase that vilifies transness as a disease to be feared.” In still another, the author “justif[ied] criminalizing gender-affirming care.” Heretics!
All this sounds like is a bunch of complainers to me but the National Review summed up the situation well.
What this uproar is about, in essence, is that these activist writers see papers like the Times as theirs — conservatives aren’t supposed to get a hearing, and any effort to give them one is thus an unacceptable concession to the Right.
You almost have to feel bad for The Times. When it tries to a real live news outlet, it just ends up angering the people who love it.
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