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Christina Jewett is an American author and anti-transgender activist. Jewett co-wrote a scaremongering New York Times article about healthcare for trans and gender diverse youth titled “They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?” The piece helped spark a newsroom revolt against management during the Times’ 2020s anti-trans coverage crisis.

Background

Christina D. Jewett was born on May 11, 1980 and grew up in Griffith, Indiana. Jewett earned a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in 2002. Jewett reported for the Sacramento Bee from 2002 to 2008, ProPublica from 2008 to 2009, and the Center for Investigative Reporting from 2009 to 2016. Jewett was then a correspondent for Kaiser Health News from 2016 to 2021 before joining the New York Times as a correspondent focusing on federal healthcare regulation in 2021.

Jewett married Floyd Charles Marvin III (born 1974). They have two children.

Anti-trans activism

While writing for Kaiser, Jewett began reporting on cisgender people who believe puberty blockers which they took as minors led to short- and long-term adverse side effects. Children whose puberty starts at 5 to 8 years old often face social problems, and those capable of pregnancy are at higher risk of sexual harassment and assault. Doctors work with parents to weigh the risks and benefits before getting informed consent. As with any medical treatment, some people will be harmed more than they were helped.

In 2022, Megan Twohey and Jewett co-wrote a New York Times article on puberty blockers for gender diverse youth that culminated in a 2023 newsroom revolt against Times leadership.

The story is about “emerging evidence of potential harm” and the “long-term physical effects and other consequences” of Lupron and other medications that can manage onset of puberty. Any drug carries a risk of side effects, which the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tracks via adverse event reports. FDA approved Lupron for central precocious puberty in 1993. It has since been used for trans and gender diverse youth experiencing unwanted puberty. Doctors have wide latitude to use approved drugs “off label,” including use to delay puberty for trans and gender diverse youth.

Focusing on uncommon side effects and unknown risks is a long-used pretense to restrict or ban contraception and abortion, especially for minors. For more information, see this site’s analysis of “They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?”

References

Klein, Charlotte (February 27, 2023). Inside the New York Times blowup over transgender coverage. Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/new-york-times-trans-coverage-debate

Jones, Imara (July 17, 2023). S02E05: Capturing The New York Times. The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality https://translash.org/transcript-capturing-the-new-york-times/

Duffy, Kaiyti (November 29, 2022). Recent Anti-Trans Articles Miss the Point of Gender-Affirming Care. Teen Vogue https://www.teenvogue.com/story/recent-anti-trans-articles-miss-the-point-of-gender-affirming-care

Thiesen, Lauren (November 15, 2022). How Many Trans People Does The New York Times Believe There Should Be? Defector https://defector.com/how-many-trans-people-does-the-new-york-times-believe-there-should-be

Bolies, Corbin (March 7, 2023). The New York Times’ Trans Coverage Debacle Was Years in the Making. The Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-new-york-times-trans-coverage-debacle-was-years-in-the-making

Eckert, AJ (December 4, 2022). What the New York Times gets wrong about puberty blockers for transgender youth. Science Based Medicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-puberty-blockers-for-transgender-youth/

USPATH and WPATH respond to NY Times article “They Paused Puberty, But Is There a Cost? published on November 14, 2022 (PDF). https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/Public%20Policies/2022/USPATHWPATH%20Statement%20re%20Nov%2014%202022%20NYT%20Article%20Nov%2022%202022.pdf

Sonoma, Sirena (April 19, 2023). The New York Times’ Inaccurate Coverage of Transgender People is Being Weaponized Against the Transgender Community. GLAAD https://glaad.org/new-york-times-inaccurate-coverage-transgender-people-being-weaponized-against-transgender/

Rook, Erin (November 18, 2022). Reckless NY Times reporting fuels disinformation about trans youth. LGBTQ Nation https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/11/reckless-ny-times-reporting-fuels-disinformation-trans-youth/

Urquhart, Evan (November 17, 2022). The NYT’s big piece on puberty blockers mucked up the most important point about them. Slate https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/puberty-blockers-side-effects-controversy.html

Staff report (October 13, 2021). Stephen Jewett. Northwest Indiana Times https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/stephen-jewett/article_00853351-ee9a-5bcd-be8b-b04c4c64b3ac.html

Anti-trans coverage

Oladipo, Gloria (February 18, 2023). Nearly 1,000 contributors protest New York Times’ coverage of trans people. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/new-york-times-contributors-open-letter-protest-anti-trans-coverage

Wulfsohn, Joseph A. (November 15, 2022). New York Times story on puberty blockers fuels critics amid trans debate: ‘Decade late on this story.’ Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-story-puberty-blockers-fuels-critics-amid-trans-debate-decade-late-story

Reilly, Patrick (February 15, 2023). New York Times accused of ‘editorial bias’ in coverage of transgender issues. New York Post https://nypost.com/2023/02/15/new-york-times-blasted-for-editorial-bias-in-transgender-coverage/

Migdon, Brooke (February 15, 2023). NYT contributors blast paper’s coverage of transgender people. The Hill. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3859501-nyt-contributors-blast-papers-coverage-of-transgender-people/

Warrington, James (February 16, 2023). How the New York Times was engulfed by a trans culture war. The Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/02/15/new-york-times-accused-writers-anti-trans-bigotry/

Selected writing by Jewett

Twohey, Megan; Jewett, Christina (November 14, 2022). They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost? New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/health/puberty-blockers-transgender.html

Jewett, Christina (Feb. 2, 2017). Drug used to halt puberty in children may cause lasting health problems. Stat10 / Kaiser Health News https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/02/lupron-puberty-children-health-problems/

Resources

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In 2022, New York Times writers Megan Twohey and Christina Jewett co-wrote a scaremongering article on puberty blockers for gender diverse youth that culminated in a 2023 newsroom revolt against Times leadership.

The article promoted and popularized several anti-trans talking points about gender affirming care for minors, including “bone density” and “low quality evidence.”

The piece is part of a strategy by anti-trans hate groups like Genspect to get FUD propaganda (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) about gender affirming care into mainstream media. Focusing on uncommon side effects and unknown risks is a long-used pretense to restrict or ban similar healthcare like contraception and abortion, especially for minors.

Background

The story is about “emerging evidence of potential harm” and the “long-term physical effects and other consequences” of Lupron and other medications that can manage onset of puberty. Any drug carries a risk of side effects, which the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tracks via adverse event reports. FDA approved Lupron for central precocious puberty in 1993. It has since been used for trans and gender diverse youth experiencing unwanted puberty. Doctors have wide latitude to use approved drugs “off label,” including use to delay puberty for trans and gender diverse youth.

Several years earlier, Jewett began reporting on cisgender people who believe puberty blockers which they took as minors led to short- and long-term adverse side effects. Children whose puberty starts at 5 to 8 years old often face social problems, and those capable of pregnancy are at higher risk of sexual harassment and assault. Doctors work with parents to weigh the risks and benefits before getting informed consent. As with any medical treatment, some people will be harmed more than they were helped.

Headlines used for the story include:

• They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?
• Puberty Blockers Can Help Transgender Youth. Is There a Cost?

Below are anti-trans talking points that were promoted and popularized via this article.

Bone density

Puberty involves a release of hormones that affect bone deposition throughout the body. Puberty blockers affect that process, so bone health is monitored in adolescent patients, usually with a baseline measurement before treatment followed by scheduled measurements.

One of the three young people profiled had to stop puberty blockade due to done density issues. While this is a well-known risk and uncommon side effect, it can usually be monitored and managed. Having to stop hormone blockade altogether due to bone density is rare.

Via USPATH/WPATH:

The anecdote provided of an adolescent who began, and then stopped pubertal suppression due to bone density loss lacks important details, including age and pubertal stage at initiation of puberty blockers, length of time on blockers, baseline bone density (“Z-score”), and whether the bone density comparison was made to identified gender or birth-assigned sex. Additional important information not provided includes calcium intake, and vitamin D intake and level, as well as level of physical activity, all of which play a substantial role in maintenance of bone mineral density.

“Low-quality evidence”

Jewett and Twohey also parrot the “low-quality evidence” claim put forth by anti-trans activists, based on a scale devised by Gordon Guyatt. Federal judge Sarah E. Geraghty rejected these claims in a 2023 Georgia case where anti-trans activists Paul Hruz, Michael Laidlaw, and James Cantor testified against Yale University professor of pediatrics Meredithe McNamara:

The undisputed record shows that clinical medical decision-making, including in pediatric or adolescent medicine, often is not guided by evidence that would qualify as “high quality” on the scales used by Defendants’ experts. ³⁰ (Doc. 70-1, McNamara Decl. ¶¶ 23–28; Tr. 74:11–75:1 (McNamara Testimony); Tr. 133:614 (Hruz Testimony).) In fact, the record shows that less than 15 percent of medical treatments are supported by “high-quality evidence,” or in other words that 85 percent of evidence that guides clinical care, across all areas of medicine, would be classified as “low-quality” under the scale used by Defendants’ experts. (Doc. 70-1, McNamara Decl. ¶ 25; Tr. 74:11–75:1.) Defendants do not refute Dr. McNamara’s testimony on this point, and indeed they “concede” that “low-quality” evidence “can be considered.” ³¹

Geraghty (2023) [emphasis mine]

Geraghty also noted the obvious biases of Hruz, Laidlaw and Cantor:

Defendants’ experts’ insistence on a very high threshold of evidence in the context of claims about hormone therapy’s safety and benefits, and on the other hand their tolerance of a much lower threshold of evidence for claims about its risks, the likelihood of desistance and/or regret, and their notions about the ideological bias of a medical establishment that largely disagrees with them. That is cause for some concern about the weight to be assigned to their views, although the Court does not doubt that those they express are genuinely held.

(“Dr. [Paul] Hruz fended and parried questions and generally testified as a deeply biased advocate, not as an expert sharing relevant evidence-based information and opinions. I do not credit his testimony.”); Eknes-Tucker v. Marshall, 603 F. Supp. 3d 1131, 1142–43 (M.D. Ala. 2022) (explaining that the court gave Dr. James Cantor’s “testimony regarding the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors very little weight”); C. P. by & through Pritchard v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, No. 3:20-CV-06145-RJB, 2022 WL 17092846, at *4 (W.D. Wash. Nov. 21, 2022) (noting that it was a “close question” as to whether Dr. Michael Laidlaw was qualified to testify about the medical necessity of gender-affirming care because he has treated only two patients with gender dysphoria and has done no original research on gender identity).

Geraghty (2023)

Mentioned

• Emma Basques (gender diverse youth), Emma’s doctor, and parents Cherise and Arick
• Jacy Chavira  (gender diverse youth)
• [unnamed] (gender diverse youth and parent)
• Norman Spack, endocrinologist
• Sundeep Khosla, bone researcher
• Hilary Cass, pediatrician
• Catherine Gordon
  • We were surprised to see reference to a subjective statement from Dr. Catherine Gordon, MD regarding “getting behind” on bone density, and we question whether this comment was taken out of context. Dr. Gordon is a long-standing advocate for trans youth care, and in her June 2022 single-author commentary published in Pediatrics, she stated that, “The duration of pubertal suppression with gonadotropin hormone releasing hormone agonists varies, but can extend up to 4 years for younger patients who are not able to provide consent until age 16 for receipt of gender-affirming therapy. Puberty blockers represent an invaluable intervention for these children and adolescents, to reduce anxiety and ‘buy time’ until final decisions can be made about gender assignment.” A subsequent commentary co-authored by Dr. Gordon and published in November 2022 in JAMA Open Access stated, “Concerns about skeletal losses become less significant in an adolescent with active suicidal ideations. Although the significance of the risks may be unclear, there is strong evidence regarding the benefits of GnRHa in transgender youth: it can be a life-changing and lifesaving treatment for a vulnerable population who is at high risk for anxiety, depression, and suicide.”
• Peggy Cohen-Kettenis, psychologist
• WPATH
• Walter Meyer, pediatric endocrinologist and psychiatrist
• Jenn Burleton
• American Academy of Pediatrics and the international Endocrine Society, which in 2017 had described the limited research on the effects of the drugs on trans youth as “low-quality.” 
• more than 50 doctors and academic experts around the world
• Models: Dutch, US, UK, Sweden, Finland

Supporters

• Ben Shapiro of Daily Wire
• anti-trans extremist Helen Joyce
• Kevin Jones of The Catholic Telegraph
• anti-trans group Woman’s Place UK
• Joan Frawley Desmond at National Catholic Register
• Jonathan Chait at New York
• Jerry Coyne of Why Evolution Is True
• Joseph A. Wulfsohn at Fox News
• Joan Smith at UnHerd
• Erik Wemple at Washington Post
• Christina Hoff Sommers, likening it to Jesse Singal’s anti-trans activism
• Katie Herzog of Blocked and Reported
• Michael Powell at New York Times
• anti-trans extremist Lisa Selin Davis

Critics

• WPATH and USPATH
• GLAAD
• Melissa Gira Grant of New Republic
• Erin Reed of Erin in the Morning
• Kate Sosin of 19th News
• Molly Redden of HuffPost
• Trans author Jennifer Finney Boylan
• Christina Cauterucci, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Bryan Lowder in Slate
• Kaiyti Duffy in Teen Vogue
• Erin Rook in LGBTQ Nation
• AJ Eckert in Science Based Medicine
• Trans journalist Dawn Ennis
• Child psychiatrist Jack Turban

References

WPATH / USPATH (November 22, 2022). USPATH and WPATH Respond to NY Times Article “They Paused Puberty, But Is There a Cost?” published on November 14, 2022. [PDF] https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/Public%20Policies/2022/USPATHWPATH%20Statement%20re%20Nov%2014%202022%20NYT%20Article%20Nov%2022%202022%20CORRECTION.pdf

GLAAD (February 14, 2023). 180+ journalists, New York Times contributors call out biased coverage of transgender people in joint letter as 100+ organizations and notables echo call, citing pattern of inaccurate, harmful trans coverage in the New York Times https://glaad.org/releases/new-york-times-contributors-call-out-biased-coverage-of-transgender-people-in-joint-letter/

2022 NYT story and links

Twohey, Megan; Jewett, Christina (November 14, 2022). They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost? New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/health/puberty-blockers-transgender.html [archive]

• The Mental Health of Transgender Youth: Advances in Understanding Maureen D. Connolly, M.D.   • Marcus J. Zervos, M.D. • Charles J. Barone II, M.D. • Christine C. Johnson, Ph.D. • Christine L.M. Joseph, Ph.D. Published:August 18, 2016•DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.06.012•
• Jody L. Herman Senior Scholar of Public Policy Andrew R. Flores Affiliated Scholar Kathryn K. O’Neill Policy Analyst How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States? June 2022 https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/
• Cass Review Interim report: Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People -https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/
• Public consultation Interim service specification for specialist gender dysphoria services for children and young people 20 October 2022 -https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/specialised-commissioning/gender-dysphoria-services/supporting_documents/B1937iiInterimservicespecificationforspecialistgenderdysphoriaservicesforchildrenandyoungpeople22.pdf
• Emily Bazelon https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/magazine/gender-therapy.html
• Azeen Ghorayshi https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/health/florida-gender-care-minors-medical-board.html
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6647755/
• Johanna Olson-Kennedy, MD,corresponding author1 Yee-Ming Chan, MD, PhD,2 Robert Garofalo, MPH, MD,3 Norman Spack, MD,2 Diane Chen, PhD,4 Leslie Clark, PhD,1 Diane Ehrensaft, PhD,5 Marco Hidalgo, PhD,1 Amy Tishelman, PhD,2 and Stephen Rosenthal, MD5 Impact of Early Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth: Protocol for the Longitudinal, Observational Trans Youth Care Study JMIR Res Protoc. 2019 Jul; 8(7): e14434. Monitoring Editor: Gunther Eysenbach; Reviewed by James Lykens and Adrienne Pichon. doi: 10.2196/14434
• CHAD TERHUNE, ROBIN RESPAUT, and MICHELLE CONLIN (Oct. 6, 2022). Reuters https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-care/
• Dani Blum (July 18, 2022). -https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/18/well/live/endometriosis-symptoms-treatment.html
• Putting numbers on the rise in children seeking gender care By ROBIN RESPAUT and CHAD TERHUNE Filed Oct. 6, 2022, Reuters https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/
• GORDON, CATHERINE M Skeletal Health and Bone Marrow Composition Among Youth Project Number 5R01HD101421-03 Contact PI/Project Leader .Other PIs Awardee Organization BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL https://reporter.nih.gov/search/VccdwST9P0yW2AM-BR598g/project-details/10401768
• Uppdrag granskning Mission: Investigate: Trans children -https://www.svtplay.se/video/33358590/uppdrag-granskning/mission-investigate-trans-children-avsnitt-1?info=visa
• Stephen M. Rosenthal, M.D. statement-https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/rosenthal-in-alabama-court-case/f616e90a9b4bfe2d/full.pdf
• Rick Rojas https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/us/alabama-transgender-law.html
• Consensus Parameter: Research Methodologies to Evaluate Neurodevelopmental Effects of Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth Diane Chen, John F. Strang, Victoria D. Kolbuck, Stephen M. Rosenthal, Kim Wallen, Deborah P. Waber, Laurence Steinberg, Cheryl L. Sisk, Judith Ross, Tomas Paus, Sven C. Mueller, Margaret M. McCarthy, Paul E. Micevych, Carol L. Martin, Baudewijntje P.C. Kreukels, Lauren Kenworthy, … See all authors  Published Online:11 Dec 2020https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2020.0006
• Consensus Parameter: Research Methodologies to Evaluate Neurodevelopmental Effects of Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth Diane Chen, John F. Strang, Victoria D. Kolbuck, Stephen M. Rosenthal, Kim Wallen, Deborah P. Waber, Laurence Steinberg, Cheryl L. Sisk, Judith Ross, Tomas Paus, Sven C. Mueller, Margaret M. McCarthy, Paul E. Micevych, Carol L. Martin, Baudewijntje P.C. Kreukels, Lauren Kenworthy, Megan M. Herting, Agneta Herlitz, Ira R.J. Hebold Haraldsen, Ronald Dahl, Eveline A. Crone, Gordon J. Chelune, Sarah M. Burke, Sheri A. Berenbaum, Adriene M. Beltz, Julie Bakker, Lise Eliot, Eric Vilain, Gregory L. Wallace, Eric E. Nelson, and Robert Garofalo-https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/trgh.2020.0006
• http://admin.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2022/longer-treatment-with-puberty-delaying-medication-leads-to-lower-bone-mineral-density -https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9624627/
• “Bone Mass in Young Adulthood Following Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Analog Treatment and Cross-Sex Hormone Treatment in Adolescents With Gender Dysphoria,” Klink et. al, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2015
• “Effect of Pubertal Suppression and Cross-Sex Hormone Therapy on Bone Turnover Markers and Bone Mineral Apparent Density (BMAD) in Transgender Adolescents,” Vlot et. al, Bone, 2017 
• “The Effect of GnRH Analogue Treatment on Bone Mineral Density in Young Adolescents With Gender Dysphoria: Findings From a Large National Cohort,” Joseph et. al, Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2019
• “Physical Changes, Laboratory Parameters and Bone Mineral Density During Testosterone Treatment in Adolescents With Gender Dysphoria,” Stoffers et. al, The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2019
• “Bone Development in Transgender Adolescents Treated With GnRH Analogues and Subsequent Gender-Affirming Hormones,” Schagen et. al, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2020
• “Short-Term Outcomes of Pubertal Suppression in a Selected Cohort of 12- to 15-Year-Old Young People With Persistent Gender Dysphoria in the U.K.,” Carmichael et. al, PLOS One, 2021
• “Pubertal Suppression, Bone Mass and Body Composition in Youth With Gender Dysphoria,” Navabi et. al, Pediatrics, 2021

Sally Chatterton is a British writer and anti-transgender extremist. Chatterton is editor of anti-trans publication UnHerd and is responsible for its consistent platforming of conservative and anti-trans voices.

Background

Chatterton earned a bachelor’s degree from Birmingham University in 1994 and earned a master’s degree from Institut Britannique, Paris in 1995.

Chatterton previously wrote for The Daily Telegraph and The Independent.

Chatterton was website editor for CapX, a publication of the right-wing Centre for Policy Studies.

Anti-transgender activism

Chatterton joined UnHerd in 2018. Chatterton has platformed dozens of conservative and anti-trans writers, including personally platforming Hannah Barnes and Kathleen Stock in attacks on trans healthcare for our children.

Media

UnHerd with Sally Chatterton and Kathleen Stock (October 19, 2023). Kathleen Stock: Inside Britain’s new trans clinics. UnHerd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QboHWVDCyDQ

UnHerd with Sally Chatterton and Hannah Barnes (March 2, 2023). Hannah Barnes: What went wrong at the Tavistock Centre. UnHerd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ZqW6MxWxs

Resources

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• Sally Chatterton
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• sally-chatterton-16051996

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• chattysalerton

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Counterweight was an anti-transgender organization founded by Helen Pluckrose. The organization was active from 2021 to 2023.

People

The Counterweight website listed the following people:

• Helen Pluckrose – Founder
• Carrie Clark – founding member
• Harriet Terrill – Director of Content
• Isobel Marston
• David Bernstein
• Jodi Shaw
• Lori K Oham
• Laura Walker-Beaven
• Jennifer Richmond

Media

Counterweight events and media included many key conservative trans people and ex-transgender activists, including:

• Buck Angel
• Laura Becker
• Debbie Hayton
• Zander Keig

Anti-trans activists involved included:

• Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Peter Boghossian
• Richard Dawkins
• Angel Eduardo
• James Esses
• Jennifer Friend
• Sarah Haider
• Jonathan Haidt
• Lee Jussim
• Eric Kaufmann
• Greg Lukianoff
• Jessie Mannisto
• Steven Pinker
• Wilfred Reilly
• Aaron Sibarium
• Erec Smith
• Debra Soh

2023 Closure

In 2023 Counterweight closed and recommended that supporters go instead to similar anti-trans organization Institute for Liberal Values.

Important Announcement

It is with heavy hearts that we have decided to close Counterweight. Thank you so much for your support and guidance throughout the past few years. Though we are closing, we see a hopeful future in the hands of other very capable organisations. We’ve worked closely with the Institute for Liberal Values, in particular, and see our mission live on through their advancement of liberalism, equality of opportunity, and justice. You can visit their website to access their support and resources here: ilvalues.org

Anti-trans coverage

Ames, Jonathan (October 15, 2021). I help thousands of Britons fight for social justice, says anti-woke campaigner Helen Pluckrose. The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-help-thousands-of-britons-fight-for-social-justice-says-anti-woke-campaigner-helen-pluckrose-fqg73dtd9

Khazan, Olga (September 27, 2021). A Support Group for the Unwoke. The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/counterweight-cancel-culture-support-ground/620203/

Walden, Celia (February 17, 2021). Why I started an anti-woke helpline: Helen Pluckrose explains why she set up a service that helps to get people talking – and resolve conflicts. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/inside-counterweight-anti-woke-helpline-fighting-workplace-cancel/

Resources

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Milo Yiannopoulos is a British right-wing extremist and troll. Yiannopoulos is a key figure in the alt-right and intellectual dark web movements.

Background

Milo Hanrahan was born on October 18, 1983 in Chatham, Kent, England to Catholic parents who soon divorced. Yiannopoulos is the surname of Milo’s subsequent stepparent.

Yiannopoulos attended University of Manchester and Wolfson College, Cambridge, but did not earn degrees from either. Yiannopoulos published works and photos as Milo Andreas Wagner around this time. Yiannopoulos founded Wrong Agency Limited in 2009. It dissolved in 2011.

Yiannopoulos wrote for the Catholic Herald and covered technology for the Daily Telegraph. There, Yiannopoulos developed a knack for clickbait and anti-progressive trolling. Yiannopoulos co-founded technology “drama” blog The Kernel and subscription newsletter The Nutshell with Stephen Pritchard. Following closure over unpaid debts, investor Berlin42 purchased the domain and settled all debts, relaunching The Kernel with Yiannopoulos as editor. In 2014, The Kernel was acquired by Daily Dot Media, and Yiannopoulos stepped down.

From 2014 to 2017, Yiannopoulos covered technology for Breitbart News. While there, Yiannopoulos was a key figure in Gamergate, a complex misogynistic online harassment campaign and right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. Yiannopoulos was also a key figure in the 2016 presidential candidacy of Donald Trump.

Yiannopoulos left Breitbart in 2017, founded Milo Worldwide LLC, and self-published the book Dangerous after it was dropped by publisher Simon & Schuster after earlier comments Yiannopoulos made about pedophilia resurfaced. The ACLU filed suit on behalf of Yiannopoulos after transit ads for Dangerous were rejected by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority,.

In 2018, Yiannopoulos self-published the books How to Be Poor and How to Be Straight. In 2021 Yiannopoulos claimed to be an ex-gay and began fundraising to create a conversion therapy center in Florida. In 2023, Yiannopoulos was involved in the presidential campaign of Kanye West.

Anti-transgender activism

Yiannopoulos made countless inflammatory statements about transgender people during the 2010s, especially in connection with Donald Trump.

Here’s the dirty secret that only the progressive left doesn’t understand: Nobody cares about trannys. There aren’t any of them anywhere. No one cares. If you’re obsessed with gay issues, if you are gay and you go to gay clubs and you only read the left wing press, all you’ll ever hear about is “people want to cut their (expletives) off.” But the rest of the country doesn’t care. There just aren’t that many of them around. Who cares? And Donald Trump knows this, which is why it wasn’t damaging to him when he said he doesn’t care what bathroom Caitlyn Jenner uses, and it’s not damaging to him now when he’s gone the other direction and said he doesn’t want them in the military. No one in America actually cares, and Donald Trump instinctively understands this.

Mitchell (2017)

References

Mitchell, Conner (July 31, 2017). Yiannopoulos doesn’t hold back on transgender rights, women in military, more. The Palm Beach Post https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/31/yiannopoulos-doesn-t-hold-back/7089635007/ [archive]

Reynolds, Daniel (October 26, 2016). Milo Yiannopoulos Takes Transphobia on Tour. The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/10/26/milo-yiannopoulos-takes-transphobia-tour

Anti-trans coverage

Long, Camilla (February 26, 2017). Milo Yiannopoulos is not so ‘funny and hot and right’ any more. The Australian https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/milo-yiannopoulos-the-pied-piper-of-hate-goes-up-in-flames/news-story/a302709bea5b6fdc571c3a025992f3ff

Lynskey, Dorian (February 21, 2017). The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos – how a shallow actor played the bad guy for money. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/21/milo-yiannopoulos-rise-and-fall-shallow-actor-bad-guy-hate-speech

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Suzanne Moore is a British writer, sex segregationist, and anti-transgender activist. Moore is a key historic figure in British anti-trans media. Moore has written for several anti-traans publications, including New Statesman, The Independent, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and UnHerd.

Background

Suzanne Lynn Moore was born on July 17, 1958 in Ipswich, Suffolk. Moore graduated Northgate Grammar School for Girls. Moore attended Middlesex University London (the Middlesex Poly) starting in 1982. Moore left the PhD program for work as a cultural critic at Marxism Today and the New Statesman. Moore has written for The Independent, The Mail on Sunday, The Guardian, and The Telegraph. Moore won the 2019 Orwell Prize. Two anthologies of Moore’s work have been published: Looking for Trouble (1991) and Head over Heels (1996).

Moore has three children.

Anti-trans activism

Moore had become notorious for provocative anti-transender statements on social media.

In 2013, a piece Moore had written for the 2012 anthology Red was reposted in New Statesman. It included this passage:

The cliché is that female anger is always turned inwards rather than outwards into despair. We are angry with ourselves for not being happier, not being loved properly and not having the ideal body shape – that of a Brazilian transsexual. 

After many objected to this passage, Moore doubled down with a response:

Gender, we thought, was just a performance, a social construct, though no one ever explained why we are compelled to repeat the same performance over and over. I had a baby, which was somehow more than “performative”. Others I knew had sex changes. Or transitioning, as it is now called. Mostly this seemed to be an obsession with secondary sexual characteristics: peeing sitting down if they had been a man, wearing horrible lumberjack shirts and refusing to wash up if they had been a woman. The radical fluidity of gender vaporised. Some trans people appeared to reinforce every gender stereotype going.

Julie Burchill wrote a defensei of Moore titled “Transsexuals should cut it out” that called trans women “bed-wetters in bad wigs” and “dicks in chicks’ clothing.” That piece was withdrawn by the editor, who apologized. Anti-trans troll Toby Young later republished Burchill’s piece.

Moore continued to make anti-trans comments on social media, occasionally leaving various platforms before returning.

In 2020, after historian Selina Todd spoke at a Woman’s Place UK event, Todd was disinvited from a National Women’s Liberation Conference celebration at Exeter College. In response, Moore published a Guardian column outlining several sex segregationist views:

The radical insight of feminism is that gender is a social construct – that girls and women are not fated to be feminine, that boys and men don’t have to be masculine. But we have gone through the looking-glass and are being told that sex is a construct. […]

The materiality of having a female body may mean rape or it may mean childbirth – but we still seek liberation from gender. In some transgender ideology, we are told the opposite: gender is material and therefore can be possessed by whoever claims it, and it is sex as a category that is a social construction. Thus, sex-based rights, protected in law, can be done away with. […]

Male violence is an issue for women, which is why we want single-sex spaces. Vulnerable women in refuges and prisons must be allowed to live in safe environments – the common enemy here is the patriarchy, remember? How did we arrive at a situation where there are shocking and rising numbers of teenage girls presenting at specialist clinics with gender dysphoria, while some who have transitioned are now regretful and infertile?

More than 200 politicians, journalists, and activists signed a letter denouncing the piece:

“We reject the argument put forward in a column by by Suzanne Moore in which she implies that advocating for trans rights poses a threat to cisgender women. The British Social Attitudes Survey (2017) found that a majority of the British public were supportive of transgender people, with women more likely to be in favour of trans rights than men. Moore’s column does not represent the views of the public, nor is it representative of the views of most women.”

After leaving the Guardian later that year, Moore revealed in UnHerd that Guardian editors had removed other anti-trans statements from pieces prior to publication.

Looking back, I see that by the late Eighties and early Nineties, I had already picked up on something that perturbed me. A denial of female biology, of our ability to name and define our experience. Some of this came from certain strands of postmodern theory where objective reality gives way only to multiple subjectivities. A kind of gender tourism became possible. Everyone could be everything. A new kind of feminism came into being, one in which flesh and blood women and our desires became somehow a bit dull. Feminism without women. Grow a child inside you and push it out of your body and tell me this is a construct. (NB: no one has to have children.) […]

No, what I most didn’t and don’t like is the erasing of female bodies and female voices and female experience and our ability to name it.

What I care about fundamentally is the right of women to meet in single sex spaces and assert themselves as a class, a sex class — one that is oppressed by a patriarchal system. By men, even sometimes the good ones. As for the bad ones, they are the ones who rape and kill trans folk, too.

Feminism has to be able to talk about bodies. Many of the advances women have made in my lifetime — reproductive rights, more choice over how we give birth, discussions of menstruation and menopause — depend on biology, the biology we were now told was irrelevant.

The Telegraph

In 2021, Moore joined The Telegraph as a columnist. Moore’s anti-trans content grew more strident and frequent over the years. In 2025, the vast majority of Moore’s columns were anti-trans rants.

References

Lewis, Sophie (Fall 2024). TERF Island: There have always been enemies inside the feminist camp. Lux Magazine https://lux-magazine.com/article/terf-island/

Thurlow, Claire (2024). ‘It’s just common sense’: A Critical Exploration of Contemporary Trans-Exclusionary Feminism. Cardiff University https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/169922/1/2024ThurlowCPhD.pdf

Maurice, Emma Powys (December 11, 2020). Suzanne Moore defends Boris Johnson’s ‘right’ to say Muslim women ‘look like letter boxes.’ PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/12/11/suzanne-moore-bbc-newsnight-kirsty-wark-boris-johnson-muslim-free-speech/

Stone, Gemma (December 5, 2020). As Expected, Suzanne Moore has been silenced apparently. Medium https://medium.com/@notCursedE/as-expected-suzanne-moore-has-been-silenced-apparently-79e11798ceaa

Tobitt, Charlotte (November 17, 2020). Suzanne Moore leaves Guardian months after staff send letter of revolt over ‘transphobic content.’ PressGazette https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/suzanne-moore-leaves-guardian-months-after-staff-send-letter-of-revolt-over-transphobic-content/

Kim, Michelle Hyun (March 6, 2020). 200+ feminists sign letter denouncing anti-trans Guardian essay. them https://www.them.us/story/suzanne-moore-guardian-anti-trans

Parsons, Vic (March 5, 2020). Hundreds of feminists write to The Guardian rejecting argument that trans rights threaten women. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/03/05/the-guardian-anti-trans-editorial-feminists-letter-suzanne-moore-transphobia/

Forrester, Kate (March 3, 2020). Trans Woman Announces Resignation From The Guardian In Packed Staff Meeting Amid Transphobia Row: The woman is the third trans person in months to walk out of the newspaper – this time over a controversial column by Suzanne Moore. Huffpost UK https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dfgdfgdfgfd_uk_5e5e7444c5b6732f50e8d509

Scotee, Scotee (October 29, 2015). Why are so many feminists transphobic? iid https://i-d.co/article/why-are-so-many-feminists-transphobic/

Rose, Katrina (January 17, 2013). Sounds Like a Threat to Me. TransAdvocate https://www.transadvocate.com/sounds-like-a-threat-to-me_n_8304.htm

Burnett, Dean (January 15, 2013). Julie Burchill, transphobia and hostility towards the victims of oppression. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/jan/15/julie-burchill-transphobia-hostility-victims-oppression

Sweeney, Mark (January 14, 2013). The Observer withdraws Julie Burchill column as editor publishes apology. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/14/observer-withdraws-julie-burchill-column

Roberts, Scott (January 11, 2013). Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore leaves Twitter following transphobic row. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2013/01/11/guardian-columnist-suzanne-moore-leaves-twitter-following-transphobic-row/

McCormick, Joseph (January 10, 2013). Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore refuses to apologise after accusations of transphobia. PinkNews https://www.thepinknews.com/2013/01/10/suzanne-moore-my-use-of-the-word-transsexual-in-an-article-was-irrelevant/

Anti-trans coverage

Jones, Owen (August 6, 2021). The lies of anti-trans rights activists need to be rebutted once and for all. Medium https://owenjones84.medium.com/the-lies-of-anti-trans-rights-activists-need-to-be-rebutted-once-and-for-all-2780ad5f908

Jones, Jane Clare (2021). Wokeism and the Left: Jane Clare Jones in Conversation With Suzanne Moore. The Radical Notion https://theradicalnotion.org/wokeism-and-the-left-jane-clare-jones-in-conversation-with-suzanne-moore/

Shields, Bevan (December 6, 2020). Cancelled Suzanne Moore speaks up on way out. The Sydney Morning Herald https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/don-t-go-into-journalism-if-you-just-want-to-be-liked-cancelled-suzanne-moore-speaks-up-on-way-out-20201204-p56kjv.html

Wilby, Peter (November 24, 2020). First Thoughts: How Suzanne Moore split the Guardian. New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2020/11/first-thoughts-how-suzanne-moore-split-guardian

Driscoll, Margarette (November 25, 2020). Suzanne Moore: ‘I was betrayed and bullied for saying that women should not be silenced’. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/suzanne-moore-betrayed-bullied-saying-women-should-not-silenced/

Todd, Selina (November 21, 2020). Suzanne Moore defended my views on sex and identity. Now it’s my turn to stand up for her. The Times https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/suzanne-moore-defended-my-views-on-sex-and-identity-now-its-my-turn-to-stand-up-for-her-xp3ztr5g9

Gordon, Amy; Robinson, James (November 17, 2020). Comment is free (unless you’re a ‘transphobe’): Death of free speech at the Guardian as columnist Suzanne Moore quits after 300 staff sign petition against her claim that gender is more than a ‘feeling.’ Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8958283/Columnist-Suzanne-Moore-quits-Guardian.html

Massie, Alex (November 16, 2020). Suzanne Moore’s departure is a sad day for the Guardian. The Spectator https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/suzanne-moore-s-departure-is-a-sad-day-for-the-guardian

Bindel, Julie (March 19, 2020). The appalling treatment of Suzanne Moore. UnHerd https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-appalling-treatment-of-suzanne-moore/

O’Neill, Brendan (March 10, 2020). In defence of Suzanne Moore: Trans women are not women and that’s all there is to it. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/03/10/in-defence-of-suzanne-moore/

Gray, Lachlan Moffet (Mar 8, 2020). Guardian staff blast ‘anti-trans’ column. The Australian https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/guardian-staff-blast-suzanne-moores-antitrans-column/news-story/702cef6025f63387602273aaf6904ac9

Massie, Alex (March 7, 2020). The row over Suzanne Moore is a test for the Guardian’s liberal credentials. The Spectator https://spectator.com/article/the-row-over-suzanne-moore-is-a-test-for-the-guardian-s-liberal-credentials/

Strudwick, Patrick (March 6, 2020). Hundreds Of Staff At The Guardian Have Signed A Letter To The Editor Criticising Its “Transphobic Content.” Buzzfeed News https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/guardian-staff-trans-rights-letter

Editors (March 4, 2020). Letters: Differing perspectives on transgender rights. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/04/differing-perspectives-on-transgender-rights

Rolland, Gonzague (February 12, 2021). Suzanne Moore, the disliked ex-witch of the “Guardian.” CTRLZ https://ctrlzmag.com/suzanne-moore-the-disliked-ex-witch-of-the-guardian/

Selected writing by Moore

Moore, Suzanne (December 29, 2025). This must be the year Britain finally kills off trans ideology. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/29/suzanne-moore-year-finally-kill-trans-ideology/

Moore, Suzanne (December 22, 2025). No wonder the NHS is in crisis when nurses are forced to deny biology. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/22/nurses-are-forced-to-deny-biology/

Moore, Suzanne (November 24, 2025). Wes Streeting said he’d protect children from the trans contagion. It was a lie. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/24/puberty-blocker-trial-betrayal-streeting-must-stop/

Moore, Suzanne (November 12, 2025). The Olympics is finally turning its back on trans nonsense. Now others must do the same. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/12/the-olympics-is-finally-turning-its-back-on-trans-nonsense/

Moore, Suzanne (November 5, 2025). The BBC’s trans lies are grotesque. I’m not paying the licence fee. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/05/bbc-trans-lies-grotesque-not-paying-licence-fee/

Moore, Suzanne (October 16, 2025). Only one side of the trans ‘debate’ blocks free speech and uses violence. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/16/trans-book-banning-hypocrites-causing-violence/

Moore, Suzanne (September 29, 2025). Emma Watson’s treatment of JK Rowling exposes her as a deluded hypocrite. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/29/emma-watson-jk-rowling-trans-rights/

Moore, Suzanne (September 22, 2025). Zarah Sultana is right, Jeremy Corbyn does have a woman problem. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/22/zarah-sultana-jeremy-corbyn-woman-problem/

Moore, Suzanne (September 2, 2025). The arrest of gender-critical Graham Linehan is insane. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/02/gender-critical-graham-linehan-arrest-free-speech/

Moore, Suzanne (August 27, 2025). If we can’t trust the BBC to stop calling obviously male criminals ‘women’, we will go elsewhere. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/27/bbc-wants-trust-stop-calling-male-criminals-women/

Moore, Suzanne (August 6, 2025). Bra-buying is excruciating enough without ‘help’ from trans M&S workers. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/06/young-girls-bras-marks-and-spencers-trans-workers/

Moore, Suzanne (July 21, 2025). I admit to being a ‘Terf’: Tired of Explaining Reality to Fools. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/21/i-admit-to-being-a-terf/

Moore, Suzanne (July 14, 2025). Why is the NHS spending hundreds of thousands of pounds attacking women? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/14/sandie-peggie-tribunal-nhs-trans-row-suzanne-moore/

Moore, Suzanne (June 30, 2025). The trans rights grift is over. The sooner everyone accepts that the better. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/30/the-supreme-courts-trans-ruling-is-the-new-brexit/

Moore, Suzanne (June 2, 2025). The BBC is spouting gender nonsense again with its new trans drama. When will it learn? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/02/what-it-feels-like-for-a-girl-bbc-trans-paris-lees/

Moore, Suzanne (May 28, 2025). Woke barrister Jolyon will find JK Rowling a far tougher opponent than the fox he beat to death. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/28/jolyon-maugham-accuses-jk-rowling-of-anti-feminism/

Moore, Suzanne (May 13, 2025). A woman saying no to trans ideology should be enough. In the NHS it isn’t. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/13/a-woman-saying-no-to-trans-ideology-should-be-enough/

Moore, Suzanne (April 28, 2025). Finally, we’re screening ‘trans’ children for autism – but let’s not swap one mania for another. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/28/trans-children-autism-overdiagnose-neurodivergence/

Moore, Suzanne (April 24, 2025). Alastair Campbell’s attempt to argue against the Supreme Court ruling is just embarrassing. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/24/alastair-campbell-thinks-women-fighting-trans-activism/

Moore, Suzanne (Aoril 21, 2025). I will never stop arguing for women’s rights – even when the trans lobby call me the enemy. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2025/04/21/what-happened-to-womens-rights/

Moore, Suzanne (April 16, 2025). The courts have spelled out what our politicians are too scared to say. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/16/courts-spelled-out-what-politicians-are-too-scared-to-say/

Moore, Suzanne (April 15, 2025). The Supreme Court ruling on what it means to be a woman is a chance to take back our rights. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/15/suzanne-moore-equality-law-revamp-definition-of-a-woman/

Moore, Suzanne (March 25, 2025). The woke institutions backpedalling on trans ideology owe the public a huge apology. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/25/woke-institutions-backpedalling-on-trans-ideology/

Moore, Suzanne (March 21, 2025). The Bad Column. Five Years On… Letters from Suzanne https://suzannemoore.substack.com/p/the-bad-column-five-years-on

Moore, Suzanne (February 17, 2025). Why would any woman work for the NHS after this nurse’s experience? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/17/woman-work-nhs-nurse-experience/

Moore, Suzanne (February 15, 2025). Female-only app founder Sall Grover: ‘I’ve been called a “Nazi bigot” for my trans views.’ The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/15/female-only-app-founder-sall-grover-trans-views/

Moore, Suzanne (February 11, 2025). It’s shameful that it has taken Nigel Farage to kill off Labour’s trans obsession. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/11/nigel-farage-has-killed-labour-trans-obsession/

Moore, Suzanne (January 29, 2025). Trump’s ban on gender transitioning has turned the tide on an indefensible cult. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/29/trump-ban-gender-transitioning-turned-the-tide-cult/

Moore, Suzanne (December 17, 2024). Time wasted on trans ideology has meant more pregnant women dying under the NHS. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/17/time-wasted-on-trans-ideology-means-pregnant-women-dying/

Moore, Suzanne (December 10, 2024). The trans cult is crumbling in Europe – now America needs to catch up. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/10/the-trans-cult-is-crumbling-in-europe-america-must-catch-up/

Moore, Suzanne (November 12, 2024). Alastair Campbell is mansplaining what women have been telling him for a decade. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/12/alastair-campbell-rest-is-politics-mansplains-women-trans/

Moore, Suzanne (November 12, 2024). The ‘male menopause’ is the peak of our institutions’ ‘biology is not real’ insanity. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/12/the-nhs-is-failing-women-its-their-male-menopause-policy/

Moore, Suzanne (October 29, 2024). Clare Balding is wrong – mixed-sex sport will only ostracise women. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/29/clare-balding-mixed-sex-sport-women-trans-athletes/

Moore, Suzanne (September 24, 2024). Labour can’t be trusted to protect women – they can’t even define one. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/24/labour-party-conference-womens-rights-trans-starmer/

Moore, Suzanne (August 26, 2024). Roxanne Tickle proves that trans rights now trump women’s rights. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/08/26/roxanne-tickle-proves-trans-rights-now-trump-womens-rights/

Moore, Suzanne (August 12, 2024). Seb Coe could be the saviour of women’s sport – and put an end to the ridiculous gender rows. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/08/12/seb-coe-ioc-president-olympics-gender-parity-womens-sport/

Moore, Suzanne (August 1, 2024). A woman has been punched by a biological male – is this what we now call sport? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/08/01/angela-carini-imane-khelif-italian-boxer-punched/

Moore, Suzanne (July 16, 2024). Wes Streeting will suffer unhinged abuse simply for protecting children. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/07/16/wes-streeting-suffer-unhinged-abuse-protecting-children/

Moore, Suzanne (June 25, 2024). If Keir actually listened to women, I’d have more time for his morally superior ‘feminist’ posturing. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/06/25/sir-keir-labour-womens-rights-general-election-2024/

Moore, Suzanne (June 5, 2024). I won’t vote Tory, but there’s a good reason Labour haven’t won me over yet. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/06/05/not-vote-tory-labour-protect-womens-rights/

Moore, Suzanne (May 21, 2024). Another win against the trans lobby shows why Starmer’s gender plans are all wrong. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/05/21/edinburgh-rape-crisis-centre-trans-lobby-starmer-gender/

Moore, Suzanne (May 6, 2024). Don’t trans activists get it? Single-sex loos are about privacy not gender. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/05/06/suzanne-moore-single-sex-toilets-privacy/

Moore, Suzanne (April 30, 2024). Stonewall’s guidance on gender doesn’t stand up in law. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/04/30/stonewall-guidance-no-basis-in-law-gender-critical-tribunal/

Moore, Suzanne (April 23, 2024). People are in denial following the Cass report – it’s like deprogramming cult members. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/04/23/suzanne-moore-cass-review-report-cult/

Moore, Suzanne (April 9, 2024). Trans children have been lied to by adults – the Cass report may now see the legal dam break. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/04/09/cass-report-trans-children-have-been-lied-to-by-adults/

Moore, Suzanne (April 5, 2024). JK Rowling’s victory over Humza Yousaf’s hate crime laws is a victory for all women. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/04/05/jk-rowling-courage-snp-scotland-hate-crime-law-humza-yousaf/

Moore, Suzanne (March 17, 2024). Denying Sex, Denying Death: Reflections on the last four years. Letters from Suzanne https://suzannemoore.substack.com/p/denying-sex-denying-death

Moore, Suzanne (March 12, 2024). Our worst fears about gender treatment have been confirmed in leaked documents. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/03/12/leaks-us-gender-group-wpath/

Moore, Suzanne (March 5, 2024). I won’t sacrifice my safety just so a trans woman feels validated. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/03/05/transgender-men-women-hampstead-ponds-women-safety/

Moore, Suzanne (January 30, 2024). I don’t need my sexuality affirmed at a railway station – I just want the trains to run on time. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/01/30/london-bridge-pride-column-trains-virtue-signalling/

Moore, Suzanne (January 16, 2024). In Scotland no one can define gender identity – so how can the country legislate for it? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/01/16/scotland-gender-identity-sex-transgender-yousaf-roddick/

Moore, Suzanne (December 12, 2023). Why can’t people accept that some trans women are just conmen? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/12/12/some-transgender-women-conmen-self-id-scotland/

Moore, Suzanne (October 31, 2023). The Welsh government’s fixation on trans issues is baffling. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/10/31/welsh-government-fixation-trans-issues-baffling/

Moore, Suzanne (September5, 2023). Even private chats can get you cancelled by gender ideologues. The Telegraphhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/09/05/roisin-murphy-moloko-cancelling-no-private-conversation/

Moore, Suzanne (August 18, 2023). Banning free speech in the name of inclusivity and diversity is the Fringe’s sickest joke. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/graham-linehan-edinburgh-fringe-banning-free-speech/

Moore, Suzanne (July 31, 2023). Why did Jacqueline Rose erase women? Her attack on biological sex is patriarchy in drag. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2023/07/why-did-jacqueline-rose-erase-women/

Moore, Suzanne (July 29, 2023). Sir Keir Starmer has changed his trans self ID stance – but he needs his MPs to follow. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/07/29/sir-keir-starmer-labour-trans-policy-duffield-russell-moyle/

Moore, Suzanne (June 27, 2023). I long defended the BBC, but I can’t justify the licence fee anymore. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/06/27/bbc-tv-license-refuse-to-pay/

Moore, Suzanne (June 8, 2023). ‘Terf’ is the ultimate slur against women. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/terf-ultimate-slur-against-women-transphobia-feminism/

Moore, Suzanne (May 30, 2023). The cult of gender ideology is finally disintegrating. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/05/30/the-cult-of-gender-ideology-finally-crumbling/

Moore, Suzanne (April 18, 2023). Our hospitals are not safe places for women. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/04/18/our-hospitals-are-not-safe-for-women/

Moore, Suzanne (April 11, 2023). Even the trans lobby can’t override biology in sport. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/04/11/lia-thomas-transgender-swimmer-riley-gaines-sport-biology/

Moore, Suzanne (April 4, 2023). Keir Starmer’s mishandling of the trans debate is an open goal for the Tories. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/04/04/keir-starmer-trans-debate-labour-women-gender/

Moore, Suzanne (March 1, 2023). The ‘reactionary feminist’ who rails against progress – and the pill. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/reactionary-feminist-who-rails-against-progress-pill/

Moore, Suzanne (February 21, 2023). Thank god, younger generations are finally turning their back on the ridiculous woke agenda. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/02/21/thank-god-gen-z-finally-turning-back-ridiculous-woke-agenda/

Moore, Suzanne (February 14, 2023). Time to Think review: the book that tells the full story of the Tavistock’s trans scandal. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/time-think-review-book-tells-full-story-tavistocks-trans-scandal/

Moore, Suzanne (January 24, 2023). The Scottish Gender Recognition row has caused some particular nasties to crawl out. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/01/24/trans-activists-giving-men-even-power-women/

Moore, Suzanne (January 23, 2023). Women, get ready to fight for our rights this year. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/01/03/women-get-ready-fight-rights-year/

Moore, Suzanne (December 13, 2022). JK Rowling is right – safe spaces for women must be protected. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/12/13/jk-rowling-right-safe-spaces-women-must-protected/

Moore, Suzanne (December 6, 2022). The Guardian is hiding the truth about trans. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/12/06/guardian-hiding-truth-trans/

Moore, Suzanne (November 28, 2022). Transgender Jesus? The Church has much more important things to worry about. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/11/28/transgender-jesus-church-has-much-important-things-worry/

Moore, Suzanne (November 15, 2022). Even the New York Times is waking up to the truth about trans. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/15/even-new-york-times-waking-truth-trans/

Moore, Suzanne (September 27, 2022). It’s not transphobic to question child chest binding. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/09/27/not-transphobic-question-child-chest-binding/

Moore, Suzanne (August 15, 2022). We should have defended JK Rowling when we had the chance. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/08/16/should-have-defended-jk-rowling-when-had-chance/

Moore, Suzanne (August 2, 2022). Labour’s trans-rights policy is looking increasingly absurd. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/08/02/labours-trans-rights-policy-looking-increasingly-absurd/

Moore, Suzanne (July 28, 2022). We will look back with horror at this mutilation of children done in the name of medicine. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/28/will-look-back-horror-mutilation-children-done-name-medicine/

Moore, Suzanne (May 31, 2022). The sexual revolution has backfired on women. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/05/31/sexual-revolution-came-cost-modern-mary-whitehouse-right/

Moore, Suzanne (May 17, 2022). Trans rights ‘activists’ give protesters a bad name. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/05/17/trans-rights-activists-give-protesters-bad-name/

Moore, Suzanne (April 26, 2022). If Stonewall doesn’t represent a woman like Allison Bailey, then who is it for? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/04/26/stonewall-doesnt-represent-woman-like-allison-bailey/

Moore, Suzanne (April 15, 2022). How the Guardian enables Owen Jones: Trans people are pawns in his narcissistic war. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2022/04/how-the-guardian-enables-owen-jones/

Moore, Suzanne (April 11, 2022). The truth about my raucous lunch with JK Rowling. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/truth-raucous-lunch-jk-rowling/

Moore, Suzanne (March 29, 2022). In war zones there’s no doubt what a woman is. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/03/29/war-zones-no-doubt-woman/

Moore, Suzanne (March 10, 2022). When did ‘woman’ become the hardest word to define? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/did-woman-become-hardest-word-define/

Moore, Suzanne (March 8, 2022). Let’s be honest on International Women’s Day – we have gone backwards, not forwards. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/03/08/honest-international-womens-day-have-gone-backwards-not-forwards/

Moore, Suzanne (February 22, 2022). JK Rowling is too big to cancel – so now the Left wants to pretend she never existed. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/02/22/jk-rowling-big-cancel-now-left-wants-pretend-never-existed/

Moore, Suzanne (February 1, 2022). Our ‘inclusive’ world is anything but – it excludes women, renames us and disappears us. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/02/01/inclusive-world-anything-excludes-women-renames-us-disappears/

Moore, Suzanne (January 11, 2022). Vulnerable women are the ones who are suffering in the trans-identified male row. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/01/11/vulnerable-women-ones-suffering-trans-identified-male-row/

Moore, Suzanne (December 21, 2021). The year we gave up on reality: Some lies matter more than others. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2021/12/the-year-we-gave-up-on-reality/

Moore, Suzanne (December 14, 2021). To think you can undermine women’s rights and disappear JK Rowling is magical thinking. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/12/14/think-can-undermine-womens-rights-disappear-jk-rowling-magical/

Moore, Suzanne (October 26, 2021). Today, even a game of bingo can be turned into a trans issue. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/10/26/today-even-game-bingo-can-turned-trans-issue/

Moore, Suzanne (October 14, 2021). This is not a trans issue – we must all stand up for free speech. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/10/14/not-trans-issue-must-stand-free-speech/

Moore, Suzanne (October 9, 2021). Universities have a moral duty to defend dissident academics like Kathleen Stock. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/09/universities-have-moral-duty-defend-dissident-academics-like/

Moore, Suzanne (September 28, 2021). Does Mrs Starmer have a cervix? … and other questions I have about Labour’s woman problem. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/09/28/does-mrs-starmer-have-cervix-questions-have-labours-woman-problem/

Moore, Suzanne (September 21, 2021). To be a woman in the public eye today means pricing in the vitriol. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/09/21/woman-public-eye-today-means-pricing-vitriol/

Moore, Suzanne (September 14, 2021). How did the Tories become the only party to protect women? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/09/14/did-tories-become-party-protect-women/

Moore, Suzanne (August 30, 2021). The Manchester Pride video shows you can now be ‘the wrong kind of gay.’ The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/08/30/manchester-pride-video-shows-can-now-wrong-kind-gay/

Moore, Suzanne (August 2, 2021). Laurel Hubbard’s Olympic quest hasn’t helped trans rights. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/08/02/laurel-hubbards-olympic-quest-hasnt-helped-trans-rights/

Moore, Suzanne (July 13, 2021). If we can’t use the word ‘woman’ about childbirth, we’re in trouble. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/07/13/cant-use-word-woman-childbirth-trouble/

Moore, Suzanne (June 10, 2021). Maya Forstater’s victory injects some good sense into the toxic trans debate. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/10/maya-forstaters-victory-injects-good-sense-toxic-trans-debate/

Moore, Suzanne (May 29, 2021). It’s wrong to erase women for the rights of others. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/05/25/wrong-erase-women-rights-others/

Moore, Suzanne (March 30, 2021). The women’s vote counts – so why don’t women? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/womens-vote-counts-dont-women/

Moore, Suzanne (March 15, 2021). What today’s young women should learn from older generations. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/can-turn-moment-movement-women/

Moore, Suzanne (March 8, 2021). I don’t know what the point of International Women’s Day is any more. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/dont-know-point-international-womens-day/

Moore, Suzanne (February 27, 2021). Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, review: Jordan Peterson is back with a self-help book that is not here to hug you better. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/beyond-order-12-rules-life-review-jordan-peterson-back-self/

Moore, Suzanne (February 9, 2021). The only wrong way to be a woman these days is to stand up for women’s rights. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/wrong-way-woman-days-stand-womens-rights/

Moore, Suzanne (January 19, 2021). The kindest among us are the quietest about it. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/kindest-among-usare-quietest/

Moore, Suzanne (November 25, 2020). Why I had to leave The Guardian. UnHerd https://unherd.com/2020/11/why-i-had-to-leave-the-guardian/

Moore, Suzanne (August 3, 2020). If we can’t define what a woman is, how can we organise politically? The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/03/define-what-a-woman-is-organise-politically-suzanne-moore

Moore, Suzanne (June 11, 2020). Who decided that letting posh young actors police my womanhood was progress? The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/decided-letting-posh-young-actors-police-womanhood-progress/

Moore, Suzanne (March 10, 2020). I wish everyone raw strength, however they identify. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/10/i-wish-everyone-strength-however-they-identify-suzanne-moore

Moore, Suzanne (March 2, 2020). Women must have the right to organise. We will not be silenced. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/commentisfree/2020/mar/02/women-must-have-the-right-to-organise-we-will-not-be-silenced

Moore, Suzanne (February 14, 2020). The trans rights charter is another way for Labour to put women in their place. The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/02/14/trans-rights-charter-another-way-labour-put-women-intheir-place/

Moore, Suzanne (April 8, 2018). Jacqueline Rose’s book offers a clear-sighted analysis of what it means to be a mother. New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2018/04/jacqueline-rose-s-book-offers-clear-sighted-analysis-what-it-means-be-mother

Moore, Suzanne (September 5, 2016). Suzanne Moore: Why I was wrong about men. You can’t hate them all, can you? Actually, I can. New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2016/09/suzanne-moore-why-i-was-wrong-about-men

Moore, Suzanne (October 8, 2015). When you receive death threats online, it’s good to know who has your back. The Guardian https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2015/10/when-you-receive-death-threats-online-its-good-know-who-has-your-back

Moore, Suzanne (July 3, 2015). When I worked at Marxism Today, my desire to earn a living proved to be somewhat déclassé. The Guardian https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/when-i-worked-marxism-today-my-desire-earn-living-proved-be-somewhat-d-class

Moore, Suzanne (January 8, 2013). Seeing red: the power of female anger. New Statesman https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/01/seeing-red-power-female-anger [archive]

Moore, Suzanne (January 9, 2013). I don’t care if you were born a woman or became one. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/09/dont-care-if-born-woman

Books

Media

Tufty / Woman’s Hour with Suzanne Moore (December 12, 2022). Suzanne Moore discusses JK Rowling’s Beira’s Place on Woman’s Hour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGMomyUSJ9A

The Telegraph with Steven Edginton and Suzanne Moore (October 15, 2021). Suzanne Moore on left-wing “puritanism” & threats to free speech | Off Script. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l586S4zuzVo

Woman’s Place UK with Suzanne Moore and Kathleen Stock (May 8, 2021). A Woman’s Place in a Material World (Suzanne Moore & Kathleen Stock) remastered audio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEAxgliyygM

ReNEWS with Suzanne Moore (April 29, 2021). ReNEWS Culture Wars conversation, with guest Suzanne Moore on identity politics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2UPeEOXBF8

The Mess We’re In with Graham Linehan, “Arty Morty,” Helen Staniland, and Suzanne Moore (December 18, 2020). The Mess We’re In Ep. #27: Suzanne Moore! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNOMeqmhnes

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers and Suzanne Moore (November 24, 2020). Suzanne Moore: driven out of the Guardian by the trans row. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSVd36xEplY

Novara Media / The Fix with Suzanne Moore (November 12, 2017). Interview with Suzanne Moore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0TmGq1bfso

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Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) is an American media watchdog organization that monitors and reports on media issues. The coverage of trans topics has been fair and accurate.

Background

Columbia Journalism Review was founded in 1961 and is published by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The magazine’s stated mission is to serve as a watchdog of the press, promoting professional standards and ethical practices while examining the strengths and failures of news organizations.

CJR covers a wide range of topics, including media ethics, investigative reporting, newsroom practices, press freedom, and the impact of technology on journalism. Its reporting often analyzes coverage of major political, social, and economic events, as well as structural issues within the media industry such as ownership, labor conditions, and financial sustainability. The publication is known for in-depth critiques of mainstream media outlets and for highlighting underreported or mishandled stories.

Originally published as a quarterly print magazine, CJR has expanded its digital presence and now publishes frequent online articles, essays, and reports.

Leadership

• James Boylan (1961–1969)
• Alfred Balk (1969–1973)
• Elie Abel (dean at Columbia ~1970–1979)
• Spencer Klaw (1980–1989)
• Suzanne Braun Levine (1989–1997)
• Marshall Loeb (1997–1999)
• Michael J. Hoyt (2000–2011)
• David Laventhol (publisher and editorial director)
• Elizabeth Spayd (2014–2016)
• Kyle Pope (2016–2024)
• Sewell Chan (2024–2025)
• Betsy Morais (2025–)

Transgender topics

CJR has published a number of pieces involving opinion, criticism, and analysis of transgender coverage in the media. They have also covered trans journalists and those seeking to improve coverage, including Samantha Allen and Zackary Drucker. They have also commissioned a number of pieces by trans journalists.

They have published pieces on fair and accurate coverage that uses gender-neutral and value-neutral language, as well as several ethical issues, including:

• misgendering and deadnaming trans victims of crime
• Caleb Hannan’s outing of trans golf entrepreneur Essay Anne Vanderbilt, which contributed to Vanderbilt’s suicide
• criticism of a New Yorker story on anti-trans “feminists” by Michelle Goldberg
• criticism of an Atlantic feature on the “ex-trans” movement by Jesse Singal
• highlighting exemplary journalists covering trans topics, including Steve Rothaus of the Miami Herald and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat’s coverage of a transgender athlete controversy
• highlighting work by the Trans Journalists Association and the Trans News Initiative
• the ethics of covering breaking news in the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk

Jesse Singal

Anti-trans activist Jesse Singal wrote three pieces for CJR in 2013, and CJR interviewed Singal when New York magazine launched the Science of Us blog in 2014. After Singal wrote When a Child Says She’s Trans for The Atlantic in 2018, Alexandria Neason noted the core problem with Singal’s feature:

Controversial stories like Jesse Singal’s cover story for The Atlantic, on how parents of transgender teens approach their desire to personally or medically transition, come to mind. The story was fact checked, but according to many readers, journalists, and activists in the trans community, was transphobic—and all wrong. The difference between fact and truth is yet another example of why newsrooms, and publishing houses, desperately need to invest in employing and representing diverse writers, editors, agents, and fact checkers alike.

References

Mullin, Benjamin (April 23, 2025). Columbia Journalism Review Faces the Kind of Crisis It Usually Covers. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/business/media/cjr-sewell-chan.html

Ad Fontes (2025). Columbia Journalism Review Bias and Reliability. https://adfontesmedia.com/columbia-journalism-review-bias-and-reliability/

Hoyt, Mike (November 15, 2011). In Our Time: CJR’s editor takes stock. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/reports/in_our_time.php

Selected writing by CJR

Nagy, Ivan L. (September 16, 2025). Liveblogging Through It: Vetting, “transgender ideology,” and the race to fill a breaking-news void in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/analysis/liveblogging-through-it-charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-misinformation-transgender.php

Galvão, Carolina Abbott (November 17, 2025). Visualizing Trans Coverage: A new tool, the Trans News Initiative, draws from data to reveal patterns and proportions. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/news/visualizing-trans-coverage-data-journalism.php

Petrin, Kae (November 20, 2024). Covering the Actual Story of Trans Lives: After an election in which trans communities featured heavily, guidance from the Trans Journalists Association. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/criticism/covering-the-actual-story-of-trans-lives.php

Morais, Betsy (June 29, 2023). Moral panic, queer expression. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/pride_month_bachelor.php

Massara, Graph (May 25, 2023). The complexities and nuances of transgender coverage. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/analysis/trans-coverage-guide-suggestions.php

Massara, Graph (September 5, 2023). How a local paper grappled with an anti-trans firestorm. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/analysis/trans-student-athlete-controversy-california.php

Neason, Alexandra (December 20, 2021). Truth-Telling: A new journalism podcast looks to history to counter ‘objectivity.’ Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/60th/truth-telling-lewis-raven-wallace.php

Allsop, Jon (June 15, 2020). The movement for Black trans lives. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/black-trans-lives-matter.php

Wallace, Lewis Raven (September 30, 2019). Five tips for journalists on covering trans and nonbinary people. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/analysis/trans-nonbinary-subjects-tips.php

Lang, Nico (April 26, 2019). The journalist telling the complicated, hopeful truth about LGBTQ life in red states. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/samantha-allen-real-queer-media.php

Sultan, Zainab (March 26, 2019). Increasing visibility of non-conforming gender communities in stock photos. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/analysis/stock-photos-vice-transgender-nonbinary.php

Neason, Alexandria (January 25, 2019). The perils of publishing without a fact-checking net. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalism-book-fact-checking-jill-abramson.php

Perlman, Merrill (January 22, 2019). How the word ‘queer’ was adopted by the LGBTQ community. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/queer.php

Vernon, Pete (August 9, 2018). Q&A: Steven Thrasher on what queer experience adds to any newsroom. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/steven-thrasher.php

Lang, Nico (May 25, 2017). A ‘disgusting slap in the face’: Reporters must stop misgendering trans murder victims. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/criticism/transgender-murders-news-journalism.php

Grimaldi, Christine (September 1, 2016). I tripped up while reporting on gender and sexuality. Here’s what I learned. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/gender_sexuality_reporting.php

Nesmith, Susannah (April 6, 2016). How the Miami Herald’s Steve Rothaus became an LGBT pioneer in mainstream journalism. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/miami_herald_steve_rothaus_lgbt_coverage.php

Perlman, Merrill (December 7, 2015). Un-gendered. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/language_changes_were_fond_of.php

Perlman, Merrill (March 23, 2015). Why ‘transgender’ is preferred over ‘transgendered.’ Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/opinion/transgender_transgendered.php

Truiit, Jos (August 6, 2014). Why The New Yorker‘s radical feminism and transgenderism piece was one-sided. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/new_yorker_feminism_transgenderism_jos_truitt.php

Truiit, Jos (February 11, 2014). The ‘don’ts’ of interviewing trans people. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/interviewing_trans_people.php

Pring, Nicola (March 12, 2014). Journos weigh in on covering trans people: A panel at CUNY on Tuesday night offered advice. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/transgender_coverage.php

Friedman, Ann (January 23, 2014). The difficulty of sticking to a story. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/realtalk/realtalk_012314.php

Vanasco, Jennifer (May 3, 2013). How not to report on a transgender victim: Cemia Acoff identified as a woman in life and should have been in death, too. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/how_not_to_report_on_a_transge.php

Vanasco, Jennifer (April 26, 2013). Where is the media on ENDA? An important bill that would protect gay workers from discrimination gets little media coverage. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/where_is_the_media_on_enda.php

Vanasco, Jennifer (May 24, 2013). More than just marriage: A guide to covering other issues that affect the LGBT community. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/more_than_just_marriage.php

Perlman, Merrill (July 17, 2012). En-gendered: Terms for sexual identity. Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/en-gendered.php

Resources

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Washington Monthly is an American media organization. Its transgender coverage is generally fair and accurate, although they have featured anti-trans articles by Sally Satel and others.

Background

Washington Monthly is an American political magazine founded in 1969 by Charles Peters, a former aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Washington Monthly focuses on public policy, governance, and institutional performance, with an emphasis on practical outcomes rather than partisan alignment.

The magazine became known for its long-form, analytical reporting and for evaluating how well government agencies, Congress, the media, and other institutions functioned in practice. During the 1970s and 1980s, Washington Monthly gained influence in policy circles for its investigative articles and detailed examinations of bureaucratic effectiveness. Its coverage expanded to include education, economics, and regulatory policy through a lens of accountability and evidence-based reform.

In the 2000s, Washington Monthly increased its online presence while continuing to publish a print edition. Ownership and editorial leadership changed after Peters stepped down in 2001.

Contributors

Contributors who have covered or mentioned trans topics include:

• Jonathan Alter

• Noah Berlatsky

• Rachel Canter
• Gail C. Christopher
• Matthew Cooper

• Garrett Epps

• Paul Finkelman

• Lisa Khoury Gadelrab
• Paul Glastris
• Merrill Goozner

• Christoph Irmscher

• Tamar Jacoby

• Anne Kim
• Markos Kounalakis

• Phillip Longman

• Zach Marcus
• Gillen Tener Martin
• David Masciotra
• Chris Matthews

• James North

• Jack Rakove

• Sally Satel (contributions)
• Bill Scher 
• Peter M. Shane
• Adam Shapiro
• Jon A. Shields

• D.R. Tucker 

• Nate Weisberg
• Ben Winsor
• Rob Wolfe

• James D. Zirin

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In 2025, Washington Monthly profiled trans YouTuber Natalie Wynn.

Anti-trans coverage

In 2024, Washington Monthly published a piece by anti-trans activist Sally Satel criticizing the book Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care published by the American Psychiatric Association.

Selected publications

Kim, Anne; Martin,  Gillen Tener (November 5, 2025). A One-Woman Stand Against Conspiracists. YouTuber Natalie Wynn spent a year immersing herself in the conspiracy theories wrecking our politics. Now, she’s sharing what she’s learned. Washington Monthly https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/05/natalie-wynn-contrapoints-one-woman-stand-against-conspiracists/

Satel, Sally (February 13, 2024). A Textbook Case of Social Justice Medicine Run Amok. Washington Monthly https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/02/13/gender-affirming-care-a-textbook-case-of-social-justice-run-amok/

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Wonkette is an American blog. Their coverage of transgender topics is consistently supportive. Wonkette is known for its satire, irreverent tone, and progressive perspective.

Background

Founded in 2004 by Ana Marie Cox, Wonkette originally focused on Washington, D.C. gossip and insider politics, blending reporting with humor and snark. It was part of Gawker Media.

Over time, it expanded to covering national politics, public policy, culture, and media, with a strong emphasis on liberal and left-leaning viewpoints.

Wonkette shifted from a standalone website to a reader-supported Substack.

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Full-time staff

• Rebecca Schoenkopf: Editor, publisher, and primary writer
• “Doktor Zoom”
• Evan Hurst
• Robyn Pennacchia
• Marcie Jones

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• Sara Benincasa
• Dominic Gwinn
• Gary Legum
• Erik Loomis
• Michael Mora

Historic contributors include:

• Lauri Apple
• Sara Benincasa
• Benjamin Frisch
• Nick Gillespie
• Jason Linkins
• Garrett Quinn
• Choire Sicha
• David Weigel
• Juli Weiner

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The Week is a media organization that publishes weekly summaries of the news and a more frequently updated website. AllSides rates its political bias as “lean left.” Their coverage of trans topics is generally neutral, though they have published pieces critical of transgender activism by Damon Linker.

Background

The Week’s British version began in 1995 and the American version began in 2001. Their editorial approach is rooted in curation: instead of producing all original reporting, its editors gather, filter, and synthesize coverage from hundreds of reputable newspapers, websites, magazines, and other media They present multiple viewpoints, including liberal, conservative, libertarian, and others, on the week’s biggest stories.

References

AllSides: The Week – News https://www.allsides.com/news-source/the-week-bias

Selected coverage

Linker, Damon (October 26, 2021). Why does wokeness drive me crazy? The Week https://theweek.com/feature/1006394/why-does-wokeness-drive-me-mad

Staff report (October 24, 2021). The controversy over trans teens. Should young people with gender dysphoria be prescribed puberty blockers and hormones? The Week https://theweek.com/life/1006253/the-controversy-over-trans-teens

Linker, Damon (July 12, 2019). Liberals’ astonishingly radical shift on gender. The Week https://theweek.com/articles/852090/liberals-astonishingly-radical-shift-gender

Ishwar, Shivani (July 10, 2018). New study reveals health risks associated with transgender women’s hormone therapy. The Week https://theweek.com/speedreads/784076/new-study-reveals-health-risks-associated-transgender-womens-hormone-therapy

Linker, Damon (March 9, 2018) The egregious overreach of transgender activism. The Week https://theweek.com/articles/759763/egregious-overreach-transgender-activism

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