Don’t Trust Polls on ‘Don’t Say Gay’
These polls are measuring respondents’ reactions after being exposed to only a portion of the Florida law’s provisions.
ACTION ALERT: WaPo Lets Bigots Frame Discussion of Sexual Politics in Schools
Please ask the Washington Post to foreground the viewpoints of LGBTQ+ students rather than bigots in coverage of sexual politics in schools.
‘These Attacks Are on Children and Their Families’
“When we talk about gender-affirming care, it’s not an ambiguous, abstract concept. It is medically necessary, life-saving care.”
Braxton Brewington on Student Loan Debt, Andy Marra on Trans Youth Rights
Is what we call “higher” education an individual investment or a public good? The way news media talk about it could be decisive.
Politico Doesn’t Have ‘Woke Police’—It Has Staffers Calling Out Bad Journalism
Apparently a disgruntled minority opposed to changes at Politico knew they’d find a sympathetic ear at the Daily Beast.
It Doesn’t Exclude Women to Acknowledge Everyone Who Can Get Pregnant
Transgender men and intersex, nonbinary and gender expansive individuals are also affected, and are especially vulnerable.
Censorship Is OK When Transphobes Do It
The Guardian redaction has some trans activists wondering if the rhetoric of the far-right media is bleeding into the mainstream.
Extra! Soundbites July 2021
Assaults on Choice Aren’t News (Here) Republican state lawmakers introduced more than 500 bills that would restrict abortion rights by mid-May—including some that would charge women who terminated their pregnancies with murder. But from the beginning of the year until May 16, NBC News didn’t once mention these attempts to roll back reproductive freedom. (They […]
Media Must Stop Asking Youth Activists to ‘Save the World’
Because stories of youth resistance are powerful and deserve to be told, it’s time to reevaluate the way that media have been telling them.
‘Roe Has Never Been Enough, and We Still Need It’
“Reproductive justice is more than abortion; it’s comprehensive. We’re talking about the human right to maintain bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.”
Vijay Prashad on India, Covid and Modi
US corporate media don’t seem to see a story worth telling in India, beyond how Modi might hold on to power despite some unfortunate “missteps.”
NYT Scolds Pride Organizers for Not Tolerating NYPD Abuse
What’s a “worrisome trend” to the NYT editors wasn’t police violence towards queer people, but LGBTQ activists challenging the ability of police forces to whitewash that violence by having gay contingents in Pride parades.
In Media Framing, Trans Kids Are Problems to Be Solved—Not People With Rights
Instead of centering trans voices in coverage of bills that target them, journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post have tended to cover the story as primarily one of political debate,
‘Laws Targeted at Trans Youth Are Stigmatizing, Are Harmful’
“We have a situation where federal law is prohibiting these types of discrimination, but state law is mandating these types of discrimination.”
Elly Page on Anti-Protest Bills, Christy Mallory on Targeting Trans Youth
If the Chauvin verdict is testament to the power of protest, so too are the vigorous efforts to squelch that power. Plus: Right-wing legislators target trans kids at the state level.
ACTION ALERT: Where Is MSNBC on GOP Anti-Trans Campaign?
First it was bathrooms, now it’s sports. When the GOP’s war against trans people using the restroom appropriate for their gender identity largely failed, it turned to a new focus to rile up its base: trans girls in sports “destroying” girls’ athletics. At least 50 bills have been introduced in 29 states that target […]
Equality Act Coverage Provides a Platform for Hate—but Not for Trans Voices
Media coverage of the Equality Act has underrepresented LGBTQ people and propagated narratives that are harmful for the same people the bill seeks to protect.
Ritchie Torres: The AOC Alternative Who Isn’t
Despite the media hype, Ritchie Torres not joining AOC’s Squad is not a case of a fellow progressive challenging the group’s pro-Palestine position, but rather a politician considerably to their right declaring that he is much more at home with the Democratic establishment.
‘You’re Not Allowed to Read Transgender People Out of Protection Because You Dislike Them’
“Generally applicable nondiscrimination laws protect everyone, including unpopular groups, including, in this specific instance, LGBT people; and we’re not going to read extratextual exceptions into them.”
Ezra Young on Supreme Court LGBT Ruling
A historic Supreme Court ruling declared that Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 does in fact make it illegal for employers to discriminate against a worker because of their sexual orientation or their transgender status.
