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The New York Sun vs. transgender people

The New York Sun is an American conservative website that features consistently anti-transgender content.

Background

The Sun was launched in 2001 as a reboot of a paoer published from 1833 to 1950. Investors included conservative media executive Conrad Black. It ceased print operations in 2008. The website was reactivated in 2009. In 2021, it was acquired by Dovid Efune and returned to full-time operations in 2022.

People

Selected anti-trans articles

Chiaramonte, Perry (September 2, 2025). U.K. Comedian Detained by Armed Police at Heathrow for Posts Critical of Gender Ideology, Igniting Worldwide Condemnation. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/uk-comedian-detained-by-armed-police-at-heathrow-for-posts-critical-of-gender-ideology-igniting-worldwide-condemnation

Chiaramonte, Perry (September 1, 2025). Olympian Imane Khelif Is Fighting World Boxing Federation’s New Transgender Policy. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/olympian-imane-kehlif-fighting-world-boxing-federations-new-transgender-policy

Cortright, Bradley (August 28, 2025). Christian Pharmacists Sue Walgreens Over Requirement To Dispense Gender-Affirming Drugs Despite Religious Objections. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/christian-pharmacists-sue-walgreens-over-requirement-to-dispense-gender-affirming-drugs-despite-religious-objections

Chiaramonte, Perry (August 27, 2025). Hulking Neo-Nazi Switches Gender Identity to Female in Nick of Time To Serve Sentence in Women’s Prison. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/hulking-neo-nazi-switches-gender-identity-to-female-in-nick-of-time-to-serve-sentence-in-womens-prison

Cortright, Bradley (August 26, 2025). Judge Dismisses Sorority Members’ Attempt To Get Transgender Student Ousted. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/judge-tosses-out-sorority-members-attempt-to-get-transgender-student-kicked-out

Cortright, Bradley (August 20, 2025). Virginia Student Suspended for Complaining About Girl in Boys’ Locker Room Back in Class as Parents Appeal Punishment. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/student-suspended-complaining-girl-boys-locker-room-class-parents-appeal-punishment

Chiaramonte, Perry (August 20, 2025). New Transgender Policy From World Boxing Federation Will Require Fighters To Submit to DNA Tests Before Competition. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/new-transgender-policy-from-world-boxing-federation-will-require-fighters-to-submit-to-dna-tests-before-competition

Cortright, Bradley (August 19, 2025). Virginia School District Suspends Two Male Students for Complaining About Trans Female in Boys’ Locker Room. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/virginia-school-district-suspends-two-male-students-for-complaining-about-trans-female-in-boys-locker-room

Cortright, Bradley (August 7, 2025). Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Teacher Who Faced Firing for Refusing To Use Students’ Preferred Pronouns. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/appeals-court-rules-favor-teacher-who-faced-firing-refusing-use-students-preferred-pronouns

Chiaramonte, Perry (August 7, 2025). Candace Owens Lashes Out Over Macron Lawsuit, Casting Free Speech in America as the Target. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/candace-owens-lashes-out-over-macron-lawsuit-casting-free-speech-in-america-as-the-target

Cortright, Bradley (August 1, 2025). Transgender Students Challenge Idaho Law Requiring Them To Use Bathrooms Matching Their Biological Sex. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/transgender-students-challenge-idaho-law-requiring-them-to-use-bathrooms-matching-their-biological-sex

Cortright, Bradley (July 30. 2025). North Carolina Republicans Override Democratic Governor’s Vetoes of Several Bills, Including One Defining Biological Sex. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/north-carolina-republicans-override-democratic-governors-veto-on-at-least-eight-bills-including-one-defining-biological-sex

Ryan, Benjamin (June 22, 2025). Breakout New York Mayoral Contender Zohran Mamdani Wants To Spend $65 Million on Medical Gender Treatments for Minors and Adults. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/breakout-new-york-mayoral-contender-zohran-mamdani-wants-to-spend-65-million-on-medical-gender-treatments-for-minors-and-adults

Ryan, Benjamin (June 18, 2025). Supreme Court Ruling on Gender Treatments for Minors Is Major Blow to Transgender Movement, but Could Be Narrower Than Trump Administration Hopes. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/supreme-courts-decision-to-uphold-state-ban-on-medical-gender-transitions-for-minors-is-a-devastating-loss-for-transgender-people-aclu-says

Ryan, Benjamin (March 18, 2025). UK Plans Landmark Study on Puberty-Blockers’ Effect on Children With Gender Distress: Critics Express Doubt It Will Advance the Weak Evidence Base. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/uk-plans-landmark-study-on-puberty-blockers-effect-on-children-with-gender-distress-critics-express-doubt-it-will-advance-the-weak-evidence-base

Ryan, Benjamin (February 10, 2025). $544,000-a-Year, Nonbinary ACLU Executive Makes Incorrect Claims About Pediatric Gender Medicine: Will This Impact Landmark Supreme Court Case?  New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/544000-per-year-newly-nonbinary-aclu-deputy-makes-incorrect-claims-about-pediatric-gender-medicine-will-this-impact-the-landmark-supreme-court-case

Ryan, Benjamin (February 8, 2025). Trump’s Justice Department Won’t Pull Out of Supreme Court Case About Gender Treatments for Minors, Paving Way for Landmark Decision. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/trumps-justice-department-wont-pull-out-of-supreme-court-case-about-gender-treatments-for-minors-paving-way-for-landmark-decision

Ryan, Benjamin (January 23, 2025). New Research Raises More Doubts About Safety and Benefits of Gender Transition Treatments for Minors. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/new-research-raises-more-doubts-about-safety-and-benefits-of-gender-transition-treatments-for-minors

Ryan, Benjamin (December 4, 2024). Supreme Court Appears Likely To Uphold State Law Banning Gender Treatments for Minors: Ruling Would Deal a Major Blow to Transgender Activists. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/supreme-court-appears-likely-to-uphold-state-law-banning-gender-treatments-for-minors-ruling-would-deal-a-major-blow-to-transgender-activists

Ryan, Benjamin (October 31, 2024). ‘Shocking’ and ‘Reckless’: Top Gender Clinic Assesses Children for Gender-Altering Medical Treatments in Just 2 Hours, Lawsuit Lays Bare. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/shocking-and-reckless-top-gender-clinic-assesses-children-for-gender-altering-medical-treatments-in-just-2-hours-lawsuit-lays-bare

Ryan, Benjamin (September 27, 2024). The AAP Files: Inside Feud Within American Academy of Pediatrics, Torn Over Transgender Issues, About Group’s Decision To Hold Meeting in ‘Anti-LGBTQ’ Florida of Ron DeSantis. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/the-aap-files-inside-feud-within-american-academy-of-pediatrics-torn-over-transgender-issues-about-groups-decision-to-hold-meeting-in-anti-lgbtq-florida-of-ron-desantis

Ryan, Benjamin (September 18, 2024). New Evidence Challenges Institutionalized Belief That Transgender Teens Become Transgender Adults, Undermining Core Defense of Medical Gender Transitions for Minors. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/new-evidence-challenges-institutionalized-belief-that-transgender-teens-become-transgender-adults-undermining-core-defense-of-medical-gender-transitions-for-minors

Ryan, Benjamin (August 9, 2024). Ohio Court Is Latest to Back State Bans on Gender-Transition Treatments for Minors, as Supreme Court Prepares To Hear Landmark Tennessee Case. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/ohio-court-is-latest-to-back-state-bans-on-gender-transition-treatments-for-minors-as-supreme-court-prepares-to-hear-landmark-tennessee-case

Ryan, Benjamin (August 2, 2024). From the Face of Pediatric Gender Medicine Comes a Quietly Radical Manifesto. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/from-the-face-of-pediatric-gender-medicine-comes-a-quietly-radical-manifesto

Ryan, Benjamin (July 10, 2024). ‘Damning’ Information About Trans Medical Group Expected To Reach Supreme Court, as Justices Consider Challenge to Ban on Gender Treatments for Minors. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/damning-information-about-trans-medical-group-expected-to-reach-supreme-court-as-justices-consider-challenge-to-ban-on-gender-treatments-for-minors

Ryan, Benjamin (June 27, 2024). Claim of Suicide Surge in Youths on U.K. Wait List for Gender Care Undermined by ‘Cass Review’ New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/claim-of-suicide-surge-in-kids-on-u-k-wait-list-for-gender-care-undermined-by-cass-review

Ryan, Benjamin (April 10, 2024). Major U.K. Report Finds Pediatric Gender Medicine Is Based on ‘Remarkably Weak Evidence.’ New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/major-u-k-report-finds-pediatric-gender-medicine-is-based-on-shaky-evidence

Ryan, Benjamin (March 12, 2024). Leaked Files From Influential Transgender Medicine Group Cause Uproar, Could Imperil Liberal Efforts To Undo State Bans on Gender-Transition Treatments for Children. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/leaked-files-from-influential-transgender-medicine-group-cause-uproar-could-imperil-liberal-efforts-to-undo-state-bans-on-gender-transition-treatments-for-children

Ryan, Benjamin (February 1, 2024). Beleaguered World Health Organization Wades Into Transgender Debate and Is Met With Uproar Over Plans To Develop Guidelines on Trans Healthcare  New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/beleaguered-world-health-organization-wades-into-transgender-debate-and-is-met-with-uproar-over-plans-to-develop-guidelines-on-trans-healthcare

Ryan, Benjamin (December 21, 2023). Sued Over Policies on Transgender Children, American Academy of Pediatrics Pulls Forthcoming Book, Takes Steps To Protect Emails From Prying Eyes. New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/sued-over-policies-on-transgender-children-american-academy-of-pediatrics-pulls-forthcoming-book-takes-steps-to-protect-emails-from-prying-eyes

Ryan, Benjamin (December 26, 2023). Lawsuits by Regretful ‘Detransitioners’ Take Aim at Medical Establishment’s Support for Gender-Transition Treatments for Minors New York Sun https://www.nysun.com/article/lawsuits-by-regretful-detransitioners-take-aim-at-medical-establishments-support-for-gender-transition-treatments-for-minors

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