Today in Complete Hypocrisy

I do not know why the New York Times has been so relentlessly and ruthlessly anti-transgender over the past few years,

Now, the the Times editorial board is pretending that this never happened, and decrying the anti-trans backlash that they nurtured:

Early Sunday, the New York Times published an editorial board piece that calls out the myriad anti-trans executive orders signed by President Donald Trump in his first few weeks in office.

Though most of the piece goes into detail in opposing the return of the Trump trans military ban, the editorial board names a host of other trans issues that Trump has used executive power to crack down on recently.

The editorial describes Trump actions as follows: “Within hours, this language began to be codified in a series of executive orders and actions attempting to exclude transgender people from nearly every aspect of American public life: denying them accurate identification documents such as passports, imposing a nationwide restriction on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths, investigating schools with gender neutral bathrooms, criminalizing teacher support for transgender students and commanding the Federal Bureau of Prisons to force the estimated 1,500 transgender women in custody to be housed with men.”

• There’s just one problem. The Times itself, through both the news and opinion sections, have been advocating for these policies for years. The Times’ negative coverage of gender-affirming care for trans youths has been well documented. NYT lead health reporter Azeen Ghorayshi was accused in 2023 of “betraying” parents of St. Louis area trans kids after she wrote a glowing profile of debunked “whistleblower”-turned anti-trans social media personality Jamie Reed

And then there is OP/ED columnist David French.

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• In 2018, he wrote for the conservative outlet National Review that our society should work toward ‘ending … transgenderism.’
• Just in case anyone thinks he may have reconsidered his views, just three months ago he said that he refuses to use trans people’s correct pronouns, writing, ‘I don’t agree that trans men are ‘men’ or that trans women are ‘women,’ and while I strive to treat every person I encounter with dignity and respect, I don’t use preferred pronouns because their use is a form of assent to a system of belief to which I don’t subscribe.’”

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On the news side, Times reporters have developed a reputation for not quoting a single trans person in stories about trans politics. I know there’s an obsession with getting “both sides” amongst modern day media editors, but when it comes to trans issues at the Times, trans people might as well not exist. If there were passports for trans journalists, the Times would have a more restrictive policy against them than Trump does with actual US Passports.

A few years ago, a group of hundreds of Times contributors signed an open letter criticizing the Times for failing to adhere to consistent editorial standards in the paper’s coverage of trans issues and in response, Times leadership accused the journalists of colluding with an activist group and defended what they called balanced coverage of trans issues.

There is a reason that Atrios refers to the Times as, “That f%$#ing paper.”

They have been assiduously huffing their own farts for so long, witness their 4 Year Long butt-hurt over Biden not giving them a one on one interview, that they have lost any connection to reality.

They don’t care, they don’t have to, they are The f%$#ing New York f%$#ing Times.