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“The Court literally just held that if Tennessee wants to ban transgender healthcare for minors, it can do so.”
The Supreme Court ruled that prohibiting the widely discredited practice of trying to “convert” LGBTQ young people violates healthcare workers’ rights.
A former New York Times editor affirms that the paper’s fearmongering, pseudo-scientific, anti-trans coverage is a response to directives from the top.
These are just a few of the void-filling conversations it’s been our pleasure to host in the last year.
The HHS report on transgender care is a sham–yet at the Washington Post, it’s a “dispute” among people with “strong opinions.”
Coverage of the conversion therapy case left out scientific and legal information necessary to understand what’s at stake for LGBTQ youth.
Most media outlets focused on profiling the shooter—who was transgender—treating the shooting as an isolated case rather than part of a larger, systemic issue.
Please ask Snopes to reevaluate its finding that Charlie Kirk was not endorsing the stoning of gays, which he called “God’s perfect law.”
“Heightened Scrutiny examines the relationship between the media’s coverage of trans rights and the anti-trans legislation we have seen balloon.”
Even while feigning concern, the paper of record remains largely uninterested in centering trans people and perspectives in coverage of trans issues.
As Pride month kicks off, the New York Times is releasing a podcast about medical care for trans youth—a subject on which Times coverage has been shameful.
The New York Times covered the latest right-wing attack on trans youth in a fashion all too common for the paper: devoid of any perspectives from trans individuals.
“What we have is another example of the relentless pseudoscience coming out of this healthcare department under RFK Jr.”
The feint Congress is using to cut Medicare—we’re just forcing recipients to work, like they should—is obvious, age-old and long-disproven.
“If Trump were to put out an executive order today declaring the sky is purple, that doesn’t change the reality that the sky is not purple.”
The Trump campaign against transgender people lands in an elite media climate in which trans lives have long been deemed “subject to debate.”
Instead of holding those in power accountable for their attacks on minority groups, many in the press corps will happily join in on the attacks.
“You would expect journalists in a democratic society to take as the central story here that targeting of these minority groups.”
We talk about what just happened, and corporate media’s role in it, with Julie Hollar, senior analyst at the media watch group FAIR, and FAIR’s editor Jim Naureckas.
Coverage of issues in this election season dovetailed well with the Trump campaign’s lines of attack against the Biden/Harris administration.
