Ford, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, Thomas Page McBee, Andrea Long Chu, John Cameron Mitchell, Zach Stafford, Raquel Willis and more. More than 180 contributors to the Times published a letter to the Times this morning, calling out the outlet’s biased trans coverage, including Ashley P. (New York, NY - February 15, 2023) - Today GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is joined by hundreds of journalists, organizations, community leaders and notable influencers in calling on The New York Times to improve their coverage of transgender people and issues. We demand fair coverage, we demand that the Times platform trans voices as both sources and full-time writers and editors, and we demand a meeting between Times leadership and the transgender community.” “We won’t stand for the Times platforming lies, bias, fringe theories, and dangerous inaccuracies. Does this response mean the Times has no interest in meeting with leaders in the trans community? Does the Times have no interest in hiring trans writers and editors? Does the Times believe it is okay to ignore the voices of hundreds of stakeholders, and thousands more joining in support online? The Times response does not answer these questions and instead tries to dismiss the very real concerns over fair and accurate journalism.” The Times is not only standing behind coverage that hundreds of leaders in journalism, media, and LGBTQ advocacy are speaking out against, but boasting that they are proud of it. It is shameful that the Times’ response blatantly ignores today’s letter from 180+ of their own contributors and does not address the 120+ organizations and leaders who signed the letter alongside GLAAD. “The New York Times response is as ill-informed as its coverage of transgender people. GLAAD said it "has not received any outreach from the NYT directly, we saw their response in the media.
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