Opinion

A second look at the attacks on the New York Times’s trans coverage

The New York Times is used to spirited critiques from readers deploring its alleged biases and highfalutin tendencies. The attacks that flooded social media in mid-February, however, were something different.

“The @nytimes is jeopardizing trans folks’ lives for click bait,” read one.

Another: “The @nytimes is an arm of the oppressive regime that is waging war against trans kids. They light a match and hide their hands behind bothsidesism, but the only two sides in a genocide are right and wrong.”