In a letter, the non-profit Glaad (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) spoke against what it called “irresponsible, biased coverage of transgender people” in the Times. Here's more.
The contributors’ letter also criticized the Times’ framing of gender diversity as a new phenomenon and suggested that the paper’s current leadership was repeating theThe second letter, from Glaad, the Human Rights Campaign and other advocacy groups, was signed by more than 100 organizations and public figures including actor Gabrielle Union and Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider.
the paper’s coverage of trans people as “important, deeply reported and sensitively written”. They said individual reporters have “endured months of attacks, harassment and threats”. The memo also included a full list of the Times’ coverage of transgender issues and said it was against the spirit of the organization’s ethics policy for reporters to be engaged in the campaign. “We also have a clear policy prohibiting Times journalists from attacking one another’s journalism publicly or signaling their support for such attacks.”
A day after the open letters went public, the Times faced additional criticism for publishing an op-ed written in defense of author JK Rowling, who has come under fire for her controversial statements about the transgender community. A spokesperson for the Times, Danielle Rhoades Ha, told the Guardian on Friday that the paper had published multiple recent opinion pieces advocating for trans rights, including one by a
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