Yeah, just to be crystal clear on this, on behalf of #Trans people working in #TransHealth everywhere: one of the reasons we feel constantly under attack is the NYT editorial board. I'm glad they ran this story, but nothing grinds my gears more than when centrist media outlets who have previously traded trans lives for clicks publish "why is this happening?" think pieces, as if it's some unanswerable question. https://archive.ph/Nhauz #ProtectTransKids #ProtectTransHealth
As someone who monitors and tracks anti-trans rhetoric closely — while also living and working every day at the epicenter of this nightmare, the way extremists celebrated after the NYT ran its first hit piece was unreal. You'd think they'd all won scratchers midway through electing a new king on Christmas. We didn't just get here because of Fox or the GOP. We got here because capitalist legacy news media saw a chance to stay relevant.
@jessdkant The perpetrators asking ‘I wonder how we got here?’ after metaphorically driving the truck straight into the crowd really irk me. The NYT is deeply complicit. They double down on the anti-trans pieces, repeat them incessantly, milk the reactions for clicks, & then publish this nonsense after the fact? Terrible.
@ghoshuvo it's offensive given how much damage they've done
@jessdkant "Feel Under Siege" are weasel words. Trans people don't just feel that way, they *are* under attack.
@halfcocked right??? What a grossly invalidating frame
@jessdkant for fucking real. The absolute audacity of them.
@chelming@social.sndevs.com@jessdkant "feel" under siege? I think we're at the "are" stage of this timeline.
@chelming yeah this is the both-sidesing that really irks me
@jessdkant NYT keeps a foot on the conservative pedal. They always have which has always been frustrating. I'm not explaining but offering sympathy.
@jessdkant We are Bagdad NYT shock and awe. That they profit from and like the spectacle of our demise is a mere by-product of money media ploys. It's as if we are designed to be toys and action figures. Not human at all.
@jessdkant the framing about people 'feeling' under siege rather than just saying that they are is also deeply dubious. That 'feel' is a weasel word any editor would cut if they weren't trying to deliberately cast doubt.
@RubyJones this is the stuff they pull all the time, and frankly it's impossible at this point to suspend disbelief enough to beleive they don't know how destructive it is.
@jessdkant Yes, they absolutely know.
@jessdkant I wish the Australian media had gotten as far as that, tbh