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Friday, February 9, 2024

NYTimes Staffers Complain About LGBTQ Coverage


The New York Times has infighting with progressive staffers complaining about the paper’s coverage once again.

Fox News Digital reports Washington Post media scribe Erik Wemple reported this week hat Times brass deleted internal communications from employees who criticized Pamela Paul's reported opinion piece headlined, "As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do."

The piece told the story of Grace Powell, a 23-year-old biological woman who is currently destransitioning from the sex change she began years ago. Paul told the Times that when she was 12 or 13 she "discovered she could be a boy," and at that time came to believe "that the reason she didn’t feel comfortable in her body was that she was in the wrong body. Transitioning seemed like the obvious solution."

According to Powell, she began hormone therapy during her senior year of high school, followed by a double mastectomy the summer before college, where she described herself coming across as "a very effeminate gay man." Looking back, however, the woman feels as though she should have asked more questions about her desire to transition before making the decision.




Powell suggested she was misled and went on to claim that right-wingers aren’t the only ones who have "inflamed this debate" over allowing kids to transition, but "transgender activists have pushed their own ideological extremism, especially by pressing for a treatment orthodoxy that has faced increased scrutiny in recent years."

Times staffers were annoyed, and Wemple posted a screenshot of the since-deleted Slack complaints on X.

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