Isabella Malbin is an American anti-transgender activist and former birth worker.
Malbin is also an artist, hypnotist, podcaster, and snake charmer.
Background
Isabella A. Malbin was born on August 14, 1991 and graduated from LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. While attending Rhode Island School of Design, Malbin claims to have been “groomed into transgender ideology.”
The Isabella A. Malbin Trust fund was a shareholder in the Texas-based Simon C. Cornelius Partnership Ltd.
Malbin reportedly became concerned about value-neutral language after hearing a Caesarean section referred to as a belly birth. In March of 2020, a fertility education program dismissed Malbin for refusing to use gender-inclusive language such as people who menstruate or people with uteruses. Malbin claims the dismissal was for using the terms mother and woman.
Malbin frequently collaborates with other gender critical activists and maintains lists of “TERF approved” resources. Malbin and Mary Lou Singleton sell a $149.00 membership that includes a program called “Inoculating Our Children Against Transgender Ideology.”
Podcast
Malbin began the Whose Body Is It podcast in 2020. It contains “interviews with radical women raising consciousness on the harms of transgender ideology, pornography, prostitution, the medical industrial complex.”
2023
- 85. Escaping Sex Trafficking in the Age of “Sex Work is Work” │ Olivia Ballard
- 84. Children Can’t Consent │ Charlie’s Story
- 83. A Holistic & Spiritual Approach to Infertility │ Kristin Hauser
- 82. False Promises & Exploitation: The Truth about IVF & Surrogacy │ Marche’s Story
- 81. Standing for Women’s Sex Based Rights at NYC Pride 2023 │ K. Yang
- 80. What has porn done to us? │ Serendipiti Day
- 79. Navigating Betrayal & Belonging Post Mastectomy & Breast Implant Illness │ Dr. Amanda Savage Brown
- 78. Detransition and Grow with Leigh Janet Marshall
- 77. ‘The Second Colonization’: The Impact of Gender Identity on Māori People with Michelle Uriarau
- 76. (Preview) What You Need to Know about the Medicated Shooters Headed to Our Schools with Robbie Rose
- 75. A New Look at Reproductive Sovereignty, Raising Boys and Recovering Our Instincts with Amy Ebert
- 74. The Ethics of Assisted Reproductive Technology with Jennifer Lahl
- 73. ‘Indigenous Feminism Redefined’ with Cherry Smiley
- 72. Sexual Politics for Women with Julia Beck
- 71. Gender Critical Comedy & Speaking Out in The Age of Trans with A Swags
- 70. Will the NYTimes finally admit they know what a woman is? Debrief with Amanda Stulman
- 69. From Bio Queen to Jewish Convert: Deborah’s Story
- 68. Radical Feminist Collectives and Direct Action Strategies with Jesika Gonzalez
- 67. Learning the Language of Your Body with Kelly Love
- 66. Healing After Transgender Indoctrination & Medicalization with Emma Eden
2022
- 65. Time to Awaken with Ora Nadrich (Preview)
- 64. Feminism & The First Amendment with Marissa Darlingh
- 63. Fighting Female Genital Mutilation with Hibo Wardere
- (Preview) Seeking Justice For A Generation Betrayed with Kim Mack Rosenberg
- 62. Unpacking Common Myths & Misconceptions About Indigenous Two-Spirit & Third Genders (Inside Look!)
- 61. The Challenges of Organizing Women-Only Events with Samantha Berg
- 60. What the hell happened in NYC? Full debrief of Speaker’s Corner Event w/ Amy Sousa & K. Yang
- 59. How to Protect a Gender Non-Conforming Daughter with Charlotte Reedy
- 58. Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker) in Austin! Recap of the Speakers Corner & VIP Terf Cocktail Hour
- 57. From Chronic Illness and Trans Ideology to Embodiment: Rae’s Story
- 56. ‘Being & Being Bought’: Prostitution & Surrogacy through a Socialist Feminist Lens w/ Kajsa Ekman
- 55. Disease is not a Punishment: A Dive into German New Medicine with Dr. Melissa Sell
- 54 Why Pelvic Health is a Feminist Issue with Adelaide Meadow
- 53. Sex Dolls, Robots & Woman Hating with Australian Writer and Activist Caitlin Roper
- 52. Defamation, DARVO, and What Happens When Men Are Welcomed into Women’s Spaces with Kate Rose
- 51. The Status of a Mother with Israeli Artist, Activist and Twin Mom, Shira Richter
- 50. Radical Feminism, Women’s Festivals & Unpacking BDSM with Serendipiti Day
- (Preview) What’s the deal with Two-Spirit and Third Gender
- 49. The UN Is Pushing Female Erasure on a Global Scale w/ Former Trans Rights Activist, K. Yang
- 48. The Dark History of “Transgender Medicine”, WPATH & Child Castration w/ Genevieve Gluck
- (Panel) Women Leaving The Left: A Panel Discussion for the Politically Homeless
- 47. The Devastating Psychological Effects of Gender Ideology in Child Development & Society w/ Amy Sousa
- 46. What Will Happen to Women if Medical Abortion is Criminalized? w/ Mary Lou Singleton
- 45. Losing Custody: A Frontline Story with Mother Jeannette Cooper
- 44. Confronting My Pediatrician For Injecting Me With Experimental “Medicine”
- 43. Getting Your Daughter Out of The Trans Cult: Jennifer’s Success Story
- 42. My Zoom Ambush: A Tale to Remember (audio only)
- 41. Transgender Ideology in Schools, Loss of Parental Rights and Taking Action with Michelle Evans
- 40. Full Body Nourishment & Healing After Hysterectomy with Suuzi Hazen
- 39. [missing]
- 38. The Dangers of They/Them-ing Children with Belle Cardinal
- 37. Trans Identities, Dissociative Identity Disorder & The Fragmented Self with Annika Mongan
- 36. Roxie, a Dominatrix Turned Radical Feminist Tells All
- 35. The Racist Origins of ‘Gender Neutral’ Language & Women’s Bodies as Currency w/ Dr. Suzanne Vierling
- 34. The Abolition of Sex with Kara Dansky
- 33. Emelie’s De-transition & Path to Self-Acceptance
- 32. Ultra-Sex or De-Sex with Alix Aharon
- 31. The Brutal Reality of Porn & Prostitution with Elly Arrow
2021
- 30. How It All Began with Meghan Murphy
- 29. The Reality of Men in Women’s Prisons with Amie Ichikawa
- 28. The Attack on Our Sexed Bodies with Jennifer Bilek
- (Clip) “Nobody can be ‘transphobic’ because ‘trans’ is an ad campaign.” -Jennifer Bilek
- 27. The MRC-5 – Transgender Connection with Robbie Rose Part 2
- 26. Gaslighting Mothers, Transgenderism and Vaxxine Injury with Robbie Rose Part 1
- 25. Resisting Groupthink: Gender Identity & The New Normal w/ TheDeprogrammerXX -PART 3
- 24. Revealing the LGBT-PEDO Connection w/ TheDeprogrammerXX – PART 2
- 23. Exposing The Trans Agenda w/ TheDeprogrammerXX – PART 1
- 22. From Transgender to Transhuman with Athena of @WildWilingWisdom
- 21. Why is Transgender Porn Immune from Public Scrutiny? with Genevieve Gluck
- 20. Documenting the Harms of Transgenderism with Jennifer Lahl
- 19. Audrie’s Detransition: A Redemption Story
- 18. The Truth About Castration Fetishes & Puberty Blockers with Genevieve Gluck
- 17. Driving Smart Women Mad | Cancelled for Saying WOMAN | Part 1
- 16. Sexuality Erasure with Joey Brite and MrMenno
- 15. Getting Cancelled & Gender Dysphoria with Stella Perrett
- 14. The TRUTH about Sissy Hypno Porn with Genevieve Gluck
- 13. Transgenderism, Feminism, and Covid with Yolande Norris-Clark
- 12. ‘This is a time to act’ with Courtney Piper CatEarth
- 11. “This is An Emergency”: Protecting Women and Girls with Kara Dansky
2020
- 10. Transhumanism & Autogynephilia with Jennifer Bilek:
- 9. Fired for Standing For Women with Sasha White
- 8. The Value of Women-Only Spaces with Emilee Saldaya
- 7. The Truth about Planned Parenthood & Transgenderism with Alix Aharon
- 6. Willow’s Transition and De-transition
- 5. Sissy Hypno Porn & Transgenderism: Angela Shares Her Story
- 4. Radical Feminism & Gender Ideology Extremism with Rhea M. Riley
- 3. You’re not a hateful bitch: A message to women who oppose trans ideology.
- 2. My Indoctrination into Trans Ideology
- 1. Transgender Ideology, The Birth World & Holding the Line for Women & Girls ∣ Courtney Piper CatEarth
References
Macdonald, Jocelyn (July 22, 2022). Why Are Trans Activists Appropriating Two-Spirit Identities? AfterEllen https://afterellen.com/why-are-trans-activists-appropriating-two-spirit-and-identities/
Sweeney, Chris (January 14, 2022). ‘My job is to help women give birth, but I was banned from using the word “mother.”’ RT https://www.rt.com/uk/542475-gender-inclusive-language-perinatal-services/
Appearances
With Benjamin Boyce
- PreggerU: Tales of a Birthing Coach | with Isabella Malbin (February 25, 2022)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8N4T9S3MBI
- All The Birthing People | with Isabella Malbin (January 11, 2021)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfbTDtzEv_s
With Meghan Murphy
- Live! Is challenging gender identity racist? Feat. Isabella Malbin and K. Yang-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWeKqlVMugw
- The Same Drugs live stream: Isabella Malbin on bodily autonomy and expanding the abortion debate
- -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS5LZ_vRQZc
With Chris Sweeney
- Is it wrong to use the term mother? Trans debate in birth world. #trans #birthing
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ibgQUAd0k
- https://rumble.com/vsnhir-i-was-banned-from-using-the-word-mother-isabella-malbin.html
With Women’s Declaration International
- Living the Declaration, Article 2: Motherhood Is an Exclusively Female Status. 5/26/22
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fiaVTczjb0
With Sasha White and M. K. Fain
- Radical Truths with Isabella Malbin (August 9, 2021)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQSQ8-ET3zc
Resources
Whose Body Is It (whosebodyisit.com)
YouTube (youtube.com)
X/Twitter (x.com)
Instagram (instagram.com)
Doula Match (doulamatch.net)
- Isabella Malbin [inactive]
- http://doulamatch.net/profile/14617
Romio (romio.com)
- Isabella Malbin [inactive]
- https://romio.com/l/new-york-city/user-profile/isabella-malbin/
Rod Dreher is a conservative American author who frequently publishes anti-transgender articles.
Background
Raymond Oliver Dreher, Jr. was born February 14, 1967 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His father was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan and was involved in local politics through those connections.
Dreher earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Louisiana State University in 1989.
Dreher was a media critic for The Washington Times and New York Post before becoming an editor for the National Review.
The American Conservative
Dreher was a contributor to The American Conservative from 2008 to 2023. Dreher’s salary was covered by Howard Ahmanson, Jr., and his work had no editorial oversight.
According to Vanity Fair, the arrangement began to unravel in 2021, when Dreher published a vivid description of a Black elementary school classmate’s uncircumcised penis: “All us boys wanted to stare at his primitive root wiener when we were at the urinal during recess, because it was monstrous.” Two years later, Ahmanson had enough:
Some of Dreher’s commentary on the gay and transgender communities also proved off-putting to Ahmanson, such as his lurid musings on anal sex, rectal bleeding, and the “partially rotted off” nose of a gay man who contracted monkeypox. “At some point, he basically decided, ‘This is too weird,’” the source, paraphrasing Ahmanson, explained to me. “‘I don’t want to read this or pay for this anymore.’”
Dreher advocates for what he calls the “Benedict Option,” where conservative Christians segregate from sex and gender minorities via intentional communities.
Anti-transgender writings
The Guardian described Dreher as “a man who appears to view fomenting transgender panic more as a vocation than a job.”
Articles include:
- The Coming Storm Over Trans ‘Tuskegee Experiment’
- How GOP Helped Big Trans Conquer South Dakota
- Trans Tyranny: The Dangerous New Phase
- Building Trans America
- The Cost Of Waging World War Trans
- Trans Propaganda, Blue And Red
- Trans Totalitarianism: Time For Moral Panic
- This Diabolical Moment
References
Ecarma, Caleb (March 10, 2023). How Rod Dreher’s blog got a little “too weird” for The American Conservative. Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/rod-dreher-blog-weird-american-conservative
Wilson, Jason (July 28, 2017). ‘Biology is not bigotry’: conservative writers react to ban on trans troops. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/28/conservative-writers-trump-transgender-troops-ban-military-writing
Dreher, Rod (October 4, 2021). Gary Shteyngart’s ‘gentile region.’ The American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/gary-shteyngart-circumcision-gentile-region/
), known as ,[1] is an American writer and editor living in a self-imposed exile[2] in Budapest, Hungary. He was a columnist with The American Conservative for 12 years, ending in March 2023, and remains an editor-at-large there.[3] He is also author of several books, including How Dante Can Save Your Life, The Benedict Option, and Live Not by Lies. He has written about religion, politics, film, and culture in National Review and National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
He was a film reviewer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and chief film critic for the New York Post. His commentaries have been broadcast on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and he has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Court TV, and other television networks.[4]
Resources
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
Books
- Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (Or at Least the Republican Party) (2006)
- The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life (2013)
- How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem (2015)
- The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (2017)
- Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents (2020)
Jennifer Bilek is an American writer and anti-transgender extremist. Bilek hosts The 11th Hour podcast and site.
Bilek was a scheduled participant in a 2017 panel that claimed transgender people are “a homophobic element introduced by the 1% to control homosexuality, reinstate male supremacy, and utilize gay children as fodder for scientific experimentation.”
Background
Jennifer Bilek was born on October 22, 1958 and grew up in New York City. Bilek trained at Woodstock School of Art. Bilek has worked as a hairstylist for children and young people as the businesses Get Coiffed and My Little Sunshine.
Bilek also paints portraits.
Anti-trans activism
In 2017, left-wing conference Left Forum announced that Jane Wheeler (under the name Jane Chotard) would chair a June 4th panel titled “Misery for Profit: Who is Funding the Transgender Movement and the Impact on LGB.” The synopsis stated:
We will be showing that the immense funding funneled to the transgender movement is coming from giant pharmaceutical and biotechnology Industries and what their aim is. We will also be showing how the corporately controlled media is interfaced with these same Industries and are blocking any alternative to the pro-trans propaganda now being disseminated. We will be showing that the transgender movement is not in fact a civil rights issue, but a business arrangement and an advertising arm of these industries. We will cover the implications of this on the LGB community and show how transgender is a political coup, positioned as an ally alongside the LGB, but are actually a homophobic element introduced by the 1% to control homosexuality, reinstate male supremacy, and utilize gay children as fodder for scientific experimentation.
Left Forum, cited in Riedel (2017)
Participants and provided bios:
- Jane Chotard: Chair and speaker
- “Jane Chotard is an out lesbian for over 30 years, mother of two teenage boys, past healthcare attorney, currently works to provide better care services to patients and residents facing serious illnesses and end-of-life issues.”
- Jennifer Bilek: Panel organizer and speaker
- “Jennifer Bilek is a bisexual artist/activist/writer living in NYC for a lot longer than is probably healthy.”
- Taylor Fogarty: Speaker
- “Taylor Fogarty is a Brooklyn dwelling twenty-something year old who writes about feminism and politics.” Twitter: @theloudlesbian
The panel was canceled following protests.
References
Van Maren, Jonathon (March 16, 2024). How a Handful of Billionaires Created the Transgender ‘Movement’: An Interview with Jennifer Bilek. The European Conservative https://europeanconservative.com/articles/interviews/how-a-handful-of-billionaires-created-the-transgender-movement-an-interview-with-jennifer-bilek/
Bilek, Jennifer (March 3, 2023). Humanity for Sale. The American Mind https://americanmind.org/features/soul-dysphoria/humanity-for-sale/
Bilek, Jennifer (June 14, 2022). The Billionaire Family Pushing Synthetic Sex Identities (SSI). Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers
Bilek, Jennifer (June 1, 2021). Foundations Are Setting the Transgender Agenda and Targeting Children. The American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/foundations-are-setting-the-transgender-agenda-and-targeting-children/
Bilek, Jennifer (April 5, 2021). CNN Versus Biological Reality. The American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/cnn-versus-biological-reality/
Bilek, Jennifer (July 27, 2020). How LGBT Nonprofits and Their Billionaire Patrons Are Reshaping the World. The American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-lgbt-nonprofits-and-their-billionaire-patrons-are-reshaping-the-world/
Bilek, Jennifer (October 9, 2020). Not Just a Tattoo: Transgenderism Attacks Our Fundamental Humanity. The American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/not-just-a-tattoo-transgenderism-attacks-our-fundamental-humanity/
Malbin, Isabella (December 17, 2020). Jennifer Bilek: Transhumanism & Autogynephilia. Whose Body Is It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kQ_o0G7D38
Bilek, Jennifer (January 21, 2020). The billionaires behind the LGBT movement. First Things https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/01/the-billionaires-behind-the-lgbt-movement
Riedel, Sam (July 7, 2017). Why Trans Activists Can’t Trust The Left. The Establishment https://medium.com/the-establishment/why-trans-activists-cant-trust-the-left-3bfa22928ddd
Resources
Jennifer Bilek (jenniferbilek.com)
Get Coiffed (getcoiffed.com) [archive]
The 11th Hour (the11thhourblog.com)
Instagram (instagram.com)
X/Twitter (x.com)
Substack (substack.com)
Facebook (facebook.com)
Gettr (gettr.com)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
Kate Coleman is an anti-transgender sex segregationist in the UK who runs the Keep Prisons Single Sex website. Coleman’s primary focus is the Gender Recognition Act and how transgender prisoners are housed.
Background
Coleman was born in September 1971. Coleman’s graduate work was done at King’s College London and University College London. Coleman’s academic work was in the division of psychiatry at the Centre for Behavioural and Social Sciences in Medicine under the supervision of Simon Dein, and:
examines the experiences of providing palliative care services to the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Stamford Hill, North London.
This research builds on her MSc research, conducted at the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, King’s College London.
Coleman’s full name is Catharine Victoria Helen Coleman-Brueckheimer, since marrying telco executive Simon Daniel Brueckheimer. The two were officers in Synectyx Ltd.
2018 statement to Parliament
Written submission from Dr Catharine Coleman (EEA0206)
At present women and girls, as a sex, are a protected class. If self-ID becomes law, and it becomes possible for any male to legally become a woman, the status of women and girls as a protected class according to sex becomes impossible to maintain. Women and girls are vulnerable and require protection under the EA due to biological sex, not any vague notions of ‘gender identity’ – it is the material reality of biological sex that is the issue, not one’s identity as a consideration separate from sex. Pertinent issues include: Domestic violence refuges, prisons, hospital wards to name but a few. The status of women and girls as a protected class according to biological sex should not be put at risk.
October 2018
Website
Coleman created the Keep Prisons Single Sex website in 2020. Coleman is assisted in this work by Rob Brailsford and Beverley Dale (bev13thdisciple).
References
Written submission from Dr Catharine Coleman (EEA0206) -https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/95839/pdf/
Vigo, Julian Savage Minds https://savageminds.substack.com/p/kate-coleman#details
GBNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McXzynPJ5sw
Graham Linehan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX_oL7gW8eA
British Thought Leaders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkk_eosyuWc
Coleman, Kate (17 December 2020). Women’s prisons should be single-sex. Centre for Crime and Justice Studies https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/womens-prisons-should-be-single-sex
Object UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMgYezcLrsg
Globe EYE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2btksJtbEw
WDI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-fIso3BoKQ
Talk TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUZ8QNiqyKQ
Coleman-Brueckheimer, Kate; Dein, Simon (2011). Health care behaviours and beliefs in Hasidic Jewish populations: a systematic review of the literature. J Relig Health. 2011 Jun;50(2):422-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-010-9448-2.
Coleman-Brueckheimer K, Spitzer J, Koffman J (2009). Involvement of Rabbinic and communal authorities in decision-making by haredi Jews in the UK with breast cancer: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.
Soc Sci Med. 2009 Jan;68(2):323-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.10.003.
Resources
Keep Prisons Single Sex (kpssinfo.org)
X/Twitter (x.com)
What Do They Know? (whatdotheyknow.com)
Graham Linehan is an Irish comedy writer and anti-transgender extremist.
Background
Linehan was born May 22, 1968 in Dublin. Linehan’s initial career was as a comedy writer. Linehan helped create and write on shows including Father Ted, Black Books, The IT Crowd, Count Arthur Strong, Brass Eye, and The Fast Show.
Anti-transgender activism
Linehan became an anti-transgender activist after the 2008 The IT Crowd episode “The Speech” was criticized as transphobic. Channel 4 pulled the episode from their streaming service in 2020, infuriating Linehan.
Linehan’s subsequent fixation on trans people led to the end of both Linehan’s comedy career and marriage. A review of Linehan’s 2023 book Tough Crowd summarizes “the extremity of Linehan’s rhetoric”:
In my view, and that of his critics, some of his online remarks have been plainly and unapologetically transphobic: Linehan has characterised the trans rights movement as “paedophilic” and called trans activists and allies “groomers”. It’s true enough that his former life is in tatters: the controversies led to the end of his marriage, the abandonment of a planned, lucrative Father Ted musical, and his agent dropping him.
[…] Often, Linehan paints trans women as predators, men looking to insinuate themselves into women’s spaces in order to assault them with greater ease. When convenient, they are made out to be victims, brainwashed and exploited young queer people who are convinced to “mutilate” their bodies in the name of ideology.
[…] To an extent, the book’s very existence disputes the pretence of Linehan to have been deplatformed. If Linehan had siloed his anti-trans views somewhat, rather than warp them into a life-consuming vocation, his once-glittering TV career might well have remained intact to this day.
Chilton (2023)
The Mess We’re In
Linehan started an interview show in 2020 that frequently has conservative, gender critical, and anti-transgender guests.
For the full episode list with guests, see The Mess We’re In.
References
Chilton, Louis (October 13. 2023). The problems with Graham Linehan’s memoir Tough Crowd. The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/graham-linehan-tough-crowd-book-trans-b2428578.html
Brown, Lee (March 17, 2023). ‘Father Ted’ creator Graham Linehan blames trans war for ending his marriage. New York Post https://nypost.com/2023/03/17/father-ted-creator-trans-war-left-me-broke-and-single/
NSW Liberal candidate likens anti-trans activism to opposing the Holocaust. The Guardian. 14 April 2022.
Andrews, Penny (20 November 2020). Choose your fighter: Loyalty and fandom in the free speech culture wars. Manchester University Press. p. 259. ISBN 978-1-5261-5255-8. – via www.manchesterhive.com. …inviting anti-trans voices such as Graham Linehan or Kathleen Stock on to programmes or to write articles…
Harassers Use Substack Sign-Ups to Spam Trans People and Allies. The Observer. 20 April 2021.
Burns, Katelyn (19 December 2019). J. K. Rowling’s transphobia is a product of British culture. Vox.
Horbury, Ezra; Yao, Christine (1 August 2020). Empire and Eugenics: Trans Studies in the UK (PDF). Transgender Studies Quarterly. 3 (7): 445–454. doi:10.1215/23289252-8553104 [archive] This online transphobia has been spearheaded by former comedy writer Graham Linehan…
Dalwood, Charlotte (6 January 2022). The alt-internet of anti-trans activists. rabble.ca. [archive]
The GOP ‘grooming’ smear is sparking a new wave of anti-LGBT+ violence. The Independent. 14 April 2022.
Moore, Sam (25 October 2021). “Matt Berry comments on ‘transphobic’ IT Crowd episode”. The Independent. [archive]
Krol, Charlotte (9 October 2020). “Channel 4 pulls IT Crowd episode over transphobic content”. NME. [archive]
Clute, Emily (18 April 2021). “The IT Crowd: The Controversial Episode that Killed the Hit Comedy Series”. Screenrant. [archive]
Falvey, Deirdre (21 January 2019). “Graham Linehan: Trans activists ‘don’t realise the damage’ they do”. The Irish Times. [archive]
Haugh, Ben (18 December 2019). “Father Ted creator Linehan creates own social network to defy Twitter after transgender row”. The Times. [archive]
Blackall, Molly (27 June 2020). “Twitter closes Graham Linehan account after trans comment”. The Guardian. [archive]
Gabbatiss, Josh (7 July 2018). “London Pride: Anti-trans activists disrupt parade by lying down in the street to protest ‘lesbian erasure'”. The Independent. London. [archive]
Murphy, Sandra (22 January 2019). “How Graham Linehan went from national treasure to divisive figure for trans community”. extra.ie. [archive]
Lyons, Izzy (7 October 2018). “Transgender lawyer launches UK’s first ‘deadnaming’ case against Father Ted writer Graham Linehan”. The Telegraph [archive]
Coyle, Colin (7 October 2018). “Father Ted writer Graham Linehan warned by police after ‘trolling’ transgender activist”. The Sunday Times [archive]
Halliday, Josh (7 October 2018). “Graham Linehan given police warning after complaint by transgender activist”. The Guardian [archive]
Father Ted writer given harassment warning. 7 October 2018. [archive]
Derrick Jensen and Graham Linehan (9 December 2018). Resistance Radio – Guest: Graham Linehan (Podcast). Podbean. The opposition is so extreme and so frightening that eventually everyone is asking you to stop. My feeling is that I can’t, because it’s too important. It’s too important to the women in my life and it’s too important to me. I’m now in a position where I can answer the question honestly of, if you were around at the time of something terrible happening like Nazism, or whatever it happened to be, would you be one of the people who said “no, this is wrong”, despite being opposed? I feel happy in myself that I’ve been one of the people standing up and saying “no, this is wrong”, despite everyone telling me not to do it.
Father Ted writer Graham Linehan compares the trans movement to Nazism. iNews [archive]
Graham Linehan Under Fire for Comparing Trans Activism to Nazism. Attitude [archive]
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan on trans rights. Newsnight BBC [archive]
The UK’s Holocaust memorial boss condemns Graham Linehan for comparing trans healthcare to Nazi experiments. MSN 14 [archive]
David Davies ‘welcomes’ Big Lottery Fund’s ‘review’ of grant to transgender charity. Talkradio [archive]
Statement: Outcome of our review into Mermaids UK grant. National Lottery Community Fund [archive]
Statement: Outcome of our review into Mermaids UK grant. National Lottery Community Fund [archive]
Asarch, Steven (20 January 2019). Twitch stream pulls in $250,000 for Mermaids charity featuring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Owen Jones and more. Newsweek [archive]
Gamer Hbomberguy hands funding row charity Donkey Kong boost. BBC News [archive]
NSPCC employee who hired Munroe Bergdorf gets homophobic abuse. PinkNews [archive]
Hozier and Father Ted creator Graham Linehan join Twitter row over JK Rowling comments. Irish Independent [archive]
Wakefield, Lily (1 December 2020). Disgraced comedy writer Graham Linehan, booted from Twitter for hateful conduct, returns with fake ‘trans guy’ account. PinkNews. [archive]
Wakefield, Lily (3 December 2020). Disgraced comedy writer Graham Linehan boasts he’s back on Twitter with a ‘new sim card’ after being kicked off for a second time. PinkNews. [archive]
Burrows, Marc (30 December 2022). Opinion: Why do people like Graham Linehan keep choosing this hill to die on? The Independent
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Adam Nagourney is an American writer and anti-transgender activist. Nagourney’s dismissive views of trans and gender diverse people have been noted by peers and historians.
Nagourney and Jeremy W. Peters claimed in the New York Times that there is a “medical disagreement” in 2023 about trans healthcare. There is clear medical consensus on best practices which is opposed by a conservative fringe minority.
Background
Adam Nagourney was born on October 10, 1954. Nagourney earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from SUNY Purchase in 1977.
Nagourney joined The New York Times in 1996.
1999 book Out for Good
Nagourney has long been known for dismissive views of trans and gender diverse people. Dudley Clendinen and Nagourney co-authored the 1999 book Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America. By the late 1990s, only out-of-touch old gay cis men called our rights movement “gay rights.” The most common inclusive term at the time was GLBT (later amended to LGBT).
Nagourney’s coverage of the activism in Minnesota that led to the nation’s first transgender-inclusive human rights laws reveals this anti-trans bias:
As Donna Cartwright has pointed out in “Distorting Mirror: Trivializing and Silencing Transgender people in Queer Media,” (Transgender Tapestry Magazine), even one of the most extensive accounts of that history, Adam Nagourney and Dudley Clendinen’s Out for Good, “treats [trans people] largely as a disempowered, voiceless ‘other.’” In their account of the Minnesota struggles about trans inclusion, for example, Cartwright notes that Nagourney and Clendinen “primarily quote opponents of trans-inclusion, and to a lesser extent, gay advocates for transgender rights,” while failing to let the voices of transgendered activists appear in their narrative. Cartwright also points out that “their description of us ‘gender queers’ virtually drips with condescension.”
As an example, here is how Nagourney and Clendinen describe trans folk singer Beth Elliott (p. 165ff):
The program included a performance by a folksinger named Beth Elliott, a tiny woman with a guitar slung around one shoulder, beads around her neck, wearing granny glasses and an earth-mother gown. Indeed, she might have been the only woman in the room wearing a skirt or a gown – except for the fact that Beth Elliott wasn’t a woman. Beth Elliott was a preoperative transsexual, a man in the process of trying to become a woman, and who, to complicate things, claimed to be a lesbian. The radical lesbians from San Francisco recognized her, or him, the moment she, or he, stepped onstage. This was the same transsexual whose demand to be admitted into the San Francisco chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis had torn the group apart.
2019 book Pride
In the 2019 photo anthology Pride: Fifty Years of Parades and Protests from the Photo Archives of the New York Times, Nagourney omitted nearly every contribution of trans and gender diverse Americans. The book omits the terms transsexual and transvestite completely, as well as historical figures like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson. The term transgender is mentioned just nine times, compared to gay (69 times), lesbian (20 times), bisexual (1 time), and LGBT (3 times).
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
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
Cartwright, Donna (2000). Distorting Mirror: Trivializing and Silencing Transgender People in Queer Media. Transgender Tapestry Issue 91 https://archive.org/details/transgendertapes9120unse https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/v979v310m
Purchase College. Adam Nagourney ’77. https://www.purchase.edu/live/profiles/3378-adam-nagourney-77
Barbaro, Michael (June 1, 2023). How the G.O.P. Picked Tans Kids as a Rallying Cry. New York Times -https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/podcasts/the-daily/anti-trans-bills.html
Stein, Sam (March 11, 2010). NYT’s Adam Nagourney Leaves DC to Become LA Bureau Chief. The Huffington Post. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/11/nyts-nagourney-leaving-po_n_495034.html
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/
Bolies, Corbin; Cartwright, Lachlan (February 16, 2023). New York Times blasts staffers who condemned paper’s trans coverage. The Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-times-blast-staffers-who-condemned-papers-trans-coverage
Eckert, AJ. 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
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
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
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/
Yurcaba, Jo (February 16, 2023). N.Y. Times contributors and LGBTQ advocates send open letters criticizing paper’s trans coverage. NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/ny-contributors-lgbtq-advocates-send-open-letters-criticizing-papers-t-rcna70800
Paul, Larisha (February 15, 2023). Gabrielle Union, Tommy Dorfman, more accuse NYT of ‘Harmful’ coverage of trans people. Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/new-york-times-coverage-of-trans-people-open-letter-1234680299/
Kalish, Lil. These New York Times contributors say the paper’s coverage of gender issues is hurting trans people. BuzzFeed News. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lilkalish/trans-writers-open-letter-nyt-biased-coverage
Hays, Gabriel (February 15, 2023). Celebs rip into New York Times for ‘irresponsible’ transgender coverage: Demand end to ‘both sides’ focus. Fox News. https://www.foxnews.com/media/celebs-rip-new-york-times-irresponsible-transgender-coverage-demand-end-both-sides-focus
Dunlap, David W. (June 19, 2017). How The Times gave ‘gay’ its own voice (again). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
Klein, Charlotte (February 15, 2023). Nearly 200 New York Times contributors are denouncing the paper’s anti-trans coverage. Vanity Fair. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/new-york-times-trans-coverage
Davies, Rachel (February 16, 2023). The NYT knew what it was doing with its ‘Defense of J.K. Rowling’. The Mary Sue. https://www.themarysue.com/the-nyt-knew-what-it-was-doing-with-its-defense-of-j-k-rowling/
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/
Mastrangelo, Dominick (February 16, 2023). NYT editors: Paper ‘will not tolerate’ its journalists protesting coverage of transgender people. The Hill. https://thehill.com/homenews/3862101-nyt-editors-paper-will-not-tolerate-its-journalists-protesting-coverage-of-transgender-people/amp/
Smith, Ben (October 18, 2022). Inside the identity crisis at The New York Times. Semafor https://www.semafor.com/article/10/18/2022/inside-the-identity-crisis-at-the-new-york-times
Remnick, David (December 22, 2017). A conversation with A.G. Sulzberger, the new leader of the New York Times. New York https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-conversation-with-a-g-sulzberger-the-new-leader-of-the-new-york-times
Ember, Sydney (December 14, 2017). A.G. Sulzberger, 37, to Take Over as New York Times Publisher. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/business/media/a-g-sulzberger-new-york-times-publisher.html
Barron, James (October 20, 2016). A.G. Sulzberger: leading change at The New York Times as journalism evolves. The New York Times. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2018/02/ag_sulzberger_new_york_times_p.html
Rogoway, Mike (February 9, 2018). A.G. Sulzberger, New York Times’ publisher and former Oregonian reporter, talks journalism in the digital age. The Oregonian.
Wemple, Erik (December 14, 2017). A.G. Sulzberger to assume publisher role at New York Times on Jan. 1. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/12/14/a-g-sulzberger-to-assume-publisher-role-at-new-york-times-on-jan-1/
Benton, Joshua (May 15, 2014). The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age. NiemanLab. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-leaked-new-york-times-innovation-report-is-one-of-the-key-documents-of-this-media-age/
Snyder, Gabriel (February 12, 2017). The New York Times claws its way into the future. Wired. https://www.wired.com/2017/02/new-york-times-digital-journalism/
Levitz, Eric (October 19, 2016). A.G. Sulzberger Vanquishes His Cousins, Becomes Deputy Publisher of the New York Times. New York. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/10/a-g-sulzberger-becomes-deputy-publisher-of-new-york-times.html
Benton, Joshua. This is The New York Times’ digital path forward. NiemanLab. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/01/this-is-the-new-york-times-digital-path-forward/
Sulzberger, A. G. (October 7, 2015). Our Path Forward (PDF). The New York Times Company. https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/m/Our-Path-Forward.pdf
Sulzberger, A. G. (January 1, 2018). A Note from Our New Publisher. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/01/opinion/Arthur-Gregg-Sulzberger-The-New-York-Times.html
Selected publications on gender
Nagourney, Adam; Nehamas, Nicholas (November 20, 2024). Harris Loss Has Democrats Fighting Over How to Talk About Transgender Rights. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/politics/presidential-campaign-transgender-rights.html
Nagourney, Adam; Peters, Jeremy W. (April 16, 2023). How a campaign against transgender rights mobilized conservatives. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/politics/transgender-conservative-campaign.html
Nagourney, Adam; Peters, Jeremy W. (June 15, 2020). A Half-Century On, an Unexpected Milestone for L.G.B.T.Q. Rights. New York Times
The New York Times; Nagourney, Adam (2019). Pride: Fifty Years of Parades and Protests from the Photo Archives of the New York Times. Abrams, ISBN 9781683355878
Clendinen, Dudley; Nagourney, Adam (1999). Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America. Simon & Schuster, ISBN 9780684810911
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Elon Musk is an entrepreneur, investor, and one of the world’s most prominent anti-transgender extremists. Musk’s adult trans child Vivian Wilson filed legal papers to end being “related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”
Since then. Musk has made many anti-trans comments and has supported other anti-trans extremists and their positions.
Examples include:
- “Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life.”
- “Every child goes through an identity crisis before their personality/identity crystallizes. Therefore, we shouldn’t allow severe, irreversible surgery or sterilizing drugs that they may regret until at least age 18.”
- Platformed transphobic film What Is a Woman? on Twitter, saying “Every parent should watch this.”
- “I will be actively lobbying to criminalize making severe, irreversible changes to children below the age of consent.”
Background
Elon Reeve Musk was born June 28, 1971 into a wealthy South African family that supported apartheid. In 1989 Musk moved to Canada as part of a plan to obtain American citizenship.
After studying in Canada, Musk transferred to University of Pennsylvania. Musk’s year of undergraduate degree date is a matter of dispute. Musk claimed a graduation date on 1995 on several occasions. According to Snopes, the University of Pennsylvania released this statement: “Elon Musk earned a B.A. in physics and a B.S. in economics (concentrations: finance and entrepreneurial management) from the University of Pennsylvania. The degrees were awarded on May 19, 1997.”
In 1995, Musk co-founded city guide Zip2. In 1999, Musk co-founded online payment company X.com, which through mergers became PayPal, which then sold to eBay. Musk used the earnings to found SpaceX in 2002. In 2004 Musk became the major shareholder in Tesla Motors. In 2006 Musk provided seed funding for SolarCity, which was later acquired by Tesla. In 2015 Musk founded satellite ISP Starlink, and in 2016 Musk co-founded Neuralink. Musk founded The Boring Company in 2017.
Trans child
In June 2022, Musk’s child legally changed name and gender, to end being “related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”
Musk has a dystopian view of the left’s influence on America, which helps explain his wild pursuit of Twitter to liberate free speech. He blames the fact that his teenage daughter no longer wants to be associated with him on the supposed takeover of elite schools and universities by neo-Marxists. “It’s full-on communism . . . and a general sentiment that if you’re rich, you’re evil,” says Musk. “It [the relationship] may change, but I have very good relationships with all the others [children]. Can’t win them all.”
Khalaf (2022)
Grimes and Chelsea Manning
Around the same time, the parent of two of Musk’s children, singer Grimes, was reportedly dating trans whistleblower Chelsea Manning after Grimes and Musk split up.
Twitter
In 2022, Musk purchased Twitter for about $44 billion and quickly began rolling back policies that protected trans and gender diverse people from abuse on the platform. Musk also began unbanning nearly all users suspended for anti-transgender activity.
Musk has made a number of anti-transgender statements, claiming that gender diverse youth are “fed propaganda by adults,” stating “we shouldn’t allow severe, irreversible surgery or sterilizing drugs that they may regret until at least age 18.”
In April 2023, Musk followed the transphobic account Libs of TikTok, referred to anti-trans activist Matt Walsh’s work in asking “What’s a woman?” and said “Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life.”
References
Hartmans, Avery (Oct 7, 2022). Elon Musk says his teenage daughter doesn’t want to be associated with him because of what he calls ‘full-on communism’ taught in schools and widespread hatred of the wealthy. Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-blames-communism-hatred-of-wealthy-for-daughters-estrangement-2022-10
Sprayregen, Molly (October 10, 2022). Elon Musk says communists made his trans daughter hate him. LGBTQ Nation https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/elon-musk-says-communists-made-trans-daughter-hate/
Cardoza, Riley (October 10, 2022). Elon Musk addresses estrangement from daughter Vivian: ‘Can’t win them all.’ Page Six https://pagesix.com/2022/10/10/elon-musk-talks-daughter-vivians-estrangement-cant-win-them-all/
Khalaf, Roula (October 7, 2022). Elon Musk: ‘Aren’t you entertained?’ Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/5ef14997-982e-4f03-8548-b5d67202623a
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Mike Abrams is an American journalist involved in anti-transgender coverage at the New York Times during the 2020s. He became Director, Journalism Practices and Principles in 2020.
No transgender journalist has appeared on the New York Times masthead since its founding in 1851.
Note: for the American evolutionary psychologist, see Mike Abrams.
Background
Abrams earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Penn State University in 1994. He was editor of the school paper. He worked at The York Daily Record and The Virginian-Pilot before joining the Times as an editor in 2004. He edited in the sports, news, and culture departments before being in charge of standards and training for editors in 2019. He was named Director, Journalism Practices and Principles in 2020.
Abrams is part of The New York Times Corps, a talent-pipeline program for college students to receive career guidance from Times journalists over a multiyear period. Since the Times has not had a trans journalist on their masthead since their founding in 1951, perhaps he can be part of the necessary change.
Anti-trans coverage
In 2023, Abrams told The Daily Beast that “action plans were developed among Times leadership, but that the paper can’t control how people will respond to or share its coverage.” He said:
“I think we’re in a sensitive moment in our country. There are clear threats in a number of states, particularly to transgender individuals. It heads into an already heightened atmosphere. Some of the reaction we’re seeing would have been inevitable. There’s going to be intense opinions of our coverage, particularly when you see people cherry-picking details from those reports for their own means.”
Bolies (2023)
References
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/
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
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
Bolies, Corbin; Cartwright, Lachlan (February 16, 2023). New York Times blasts staffers who condemned paper’s trans coverage. The Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-times-blast-staffers-who-condemned-papers-trans-coverage
Eckert, AJ. 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
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
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
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/
Yurcaba, Jo (February 16, 2023). N.Y. Times contributors and LGBTQ advocates send open letters criticizing paper’s trans coverage. NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/ny-contributors-lgbtq-advocates-send-open-letters-criticizing-papers-t-rcna70800
Paul, Larisha (February 15, 2023). Gabrielle Union, Tommy Dorfman, more accuse NYT of ‘Harmful’ coverage of trans people. Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/new-york-times-coverage-of-trans-people-open-letter-1234680299/
Kalish, Lil. These New York Times contributors say the paper’s coverage of gender issues is hurting trans people. BuzzFeed News. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lilkalish/trans-writers-open-letter-nyt-biased-coverage
Hays, Gabriel (February 15, 2023). Celebs rip into New York Times for ‘irresponsible’ transgender coverage: Demand end to ‘both sides’ focus. Fox News. https://www.foxnews.com/media/celebs-rip-new-york-times-irresponsible-transgender-coverage-demand-end-both-sides-focus
Dunlap, David W. (June 19, 2017). How The Times gave ‘gay’ its own voice (again). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
Klein, Charlotte (February 15, 2023). Nearly 200 New York Times contributors are denouncing the paper’s anti-trans coverage. Vanity Fair. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/new-york-times-trans-coverage
Davies, Rachel (February 16, 2023). The NYT knew what it was doing with its ‘Defense of J.K. Rowling’. The Mary Sue. https://www.themarysue.com/the-nyt-knew-what-it-was-doing-with-its-defense-of-j-k-rowling/
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/
Mastrangelo, Dominick (February 16, 2023). NYT editors: Paper ‘will not tolerate’ its journalists protesting coverage of transgender people. The Hill. https://thehill.com/homenews/3862101-nyt-editors-paper-will-not-tolerate-its-journalists-protesting-coverage-of-transgender-people/amp/
Bellisario College of Communications (January 14, 2021). Respected alumnus brings vital approach to role at The New York Times. https://www.psu.edu/news/bellisario-college-communications/story/respected-alumnus-brings-vital-approach-role-new-york-times/
Kim, Ted; Correa, Carla; Blumenstein, Rebecca (August 30, 2022). Introducing the inaugural members of The New York Times Corps. New York Times Company https://www.nytco.com/press/introducing-the-inaugural-members-of-the-new-york-times-corps/
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Michael Slackman is an American journalist involved in anti-transgender coverage at the New York Times. He was named to the masthead in 2019 amid the paper’s surge in biased coverage about trans issues.
No transgender journalist has appeared on the New York Times masthead since its founding in 1851.
Background
Michael E. Slackman was born in July 1961. Slackman graduated from the Northeastern University School of Journalism in 1984.
He covered the New York City suburbs before joining Newsday. While he was working there, Newsday won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for spot reporting.
He left Newsady in 2001 for the Los Angeles Times, where he was Moscow bureau chief until 2003.
Slackman joined the Times in 2003 as a reporter on Metro before being named bureau chief for Berlin, then Cairo. He was named to the masthead in 2019.
He is married to multimedia artist Wendy Vissar. They have an adult son, Nikolas.
References
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/
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
Bolies, Corbin; Cartwright, Lachlan (February 16, 2023). New York Times blasts staffers who condemned paper’s trans coverage. The Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-times-blast-staffers-who-condemned-papers-trans-coverage
Eckert, AJ. 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
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
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
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/
Yurcaba, Jo (February 16, 2023). N.Y. Times contributors and LGBTQ advocates send open letters criticizing paper’s trans coverage. NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/ny-contributors-lgbtq-advocates-send-open-letters-criticizing-papers-t-rcna70800
Paul, Larisha (February 15, 2023). Gabrielle Union, Tommy Dorfman, more accuse NYT of ‘Harmful’ coverage of trans people. Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/new-york-times-coverage-of-trans-people-open-letter-1234680299/
Kalish, Lil. These New York Times contributors say the paper’s coverage of gender issues is hurting trans people. BuzzFeed News. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lilkalish/trans-writers-open-letter-nyt-biased-coverage
Hays, Gabriel (February 15, 2023). Celebs rip into New York Times for ‘irresponsible’ transgender coverage: Demand end to ‘both sides’ focus. Fox News. https://www.foxnews.com/media/celebs-rip-new-york-times-irresponsible-transgender-coverage-demand-end-both-sides-focus
Dunlap, David W. (June 19, 2017). How The Times gave ‘gay’ its own voice (again). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
Klein, Charlotte (February 15, 2023). Nearly 200 New York Times contributors are denouncing the paper’s anti-trans coverage. Vanity Fair. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/new-york-times-trans-coverage
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Mastrangelo, Dominick (February 16, 2023). NYT editors: Paper ‘will not tolerate’ its journalists protesting coverage of transgender people. The Hill. https://thehill.com/homenews/3862101-nyt-editors-paper-will-not-tolerate-its-journalists-protesting-coverage-of-transgender-people/amp/
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Karron Skog is an American journalist involved in anti-transgender coverage at the New York Times. Skog was named to the masthead in 2018, during the paper’s sharp uptick in anti-transgender coverage.
No transgender journalist has appeared on the New York Times masthead since its founding in 1851.
Background
Skog earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and journalism from University of Minnesota, Duluth in 1994. Skog then wrote for The Worthington Daily Globe before joining the The Duluth News-Tribune in 1995. In 2000 Skog joined The Virginian-Pilot as Copy Desk Chief, working with Mike Abrams.
Skog joined the Times in 2005 as a copy editor on the National desk and later became editor of the news desk and editorial director of Smarter Living. Skog has been involved in newsroom modernization and audience strategy efforts.
Skog co-authored the 2019 book Smarter Living with Karen Barrow and Tim Herrera. It is based on the Times’ Smarter Living section.
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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/
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
Bolies, Corbin; Cartwright, Lachlan (February 16, 2023). New York Times blasts staffers who condemned paper’s trans coverage. The Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-times-blast-staffers-who-condemned-papers-trans-coverage
Eckert, AJ. 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
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
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
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/
Yurcaba, Jo (February 16, 2023). N.Y. Times contributors and LGBTQ advocates send open letters criticizing paper’s trans coverage. NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/ny-contributors-lgbtq-advocates-send-open-letters-criticizing-papers-t-rcna70800
Paul, Larisha (February 15, 2023). Gabrielle Union, Tommy Dorfman, more accuse NYT of ‘Harmful’ coverage of trans people. Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/new-york-times-coverage-of-trans-people-open-letter-1234680299/
Kalish, Lil. These New York Times contributors say the paper’s coverage of gender issues is hurting trans people. BuzzFeed News. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lilkalish/trans-writers-open-letter-nyt-biased-coverage
Hays, Gabriel (February 15, 2023). Celebs rip into New York Times for ‘irresponsible’ transgender coverage: Demand end to ‘both sides’ focus. Fox News. https://www.foxnews.com/media/celebs-rip-new-york-times-irresponsible-transgender-coverage-demand-end-both-sides-focus
Dunlap, David W. (June 19, 2017). How The Times gave ‘gay’ its own voice (again). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
Klein, Charlotte (February 15, 2023). Nearly 200 New York Times contributors are denouncing the paper’s anti-trans coverage. Vanity Fair. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/new-york-times-trans-coverage
Davies, Rachel (February 16, 2023). The NYT knew what it was doing with its ‘Defense of J.K. Rowling’. The Mary Sue. https://www.themarysue.com/the-nyt-knew-what-it-was-doing-with-its-defense-of-j-k-rowling/
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/
Mastrangelo, Dominick (February 16, 2023). NYT editors: Paper ‘will not tolerate’ its journalists protesting coverage of transgender people. The Hill. https://thehill.com/homenews/3862101-nyt-editors-paper-will-not-tolerate-its-journalists-protesting-coverage-of-transgender-people/amp/
Kahn, Joe; Lacey, Marc; Ryan, Carolyn (July 18, 2022). Karron Skog Elevated to Assistant Managing Editor. New York Times Company https://www.nytco.com/press/karron-skog-elevated-to-assistant-managing-editor/
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