Hundreds of New York Times contributors and advocacy groups sent two coordinated open letters Wednesday accusing the paper of record of publishing biased articles about trans people.
Feb. 16, 2023, 12:32 AM UTC
A billboard truck also drove around the Times’ office in Manhattan with the coalition’s messages, including: “Dear New York Times: Stop questioning trans people’s right to exist & access medical care.” Stadtlander added that the news stories the letters criticized “reported deeply and empathetically on issues of care and well-being for trans teens and adults.”
“As last year drew to a close and this year began, I think that the citation of Times reporting in state legislatures was starting to cohere into something that was beginning to look really frightening to me,” Livingstone said. “The New York Times seemed to be acting as this catalyst for speeding up outrage cycles and shuffling those hot-button issues into policy proposals.”
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