https://NYTLetter.com co-author Harron Walker talks with The Takeaway’s Melissa Harris-Perry about the New York Times and the climate of threat to trans people’s lives and health in the U.S.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/new-york-times-trans-news

#NYTTransSolidarity

“The Times has spent the past seven weeks responding to our letter by making false claims, intimidating its employees and, most importantly, barely covering the legislative assault on trans people.”
— FSP’s Eric Thurm

https://nytletter.com

#NYTTransSolidarity

“Instead of investigating this news, Times leadership has spent recent weeks combing through the 1,200 contributor signatories, as well as the 34,000 signatories who joined in solidarity, to find staffers to intimidate.”

A further open letter confronting the New York Times’ on its record covering trans people in the climate of anti-trans politics, addressed to publisher A.G. Sulzberger today.
https://nytletter.com/

#NYTTransSolidarity

“Now, nearly a quarter-century after Cartwright came out, the Times is once again a center of hostility toward a marginalized queer community. Once again, people inside and outside the paper are pleading with management to change. And once again, the Times is putting its barriers up. It is as though it has learned nothing from its own history.”
— Jack Mirkinson in The Nation.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/new-york-times-trans-coverage-gay-rights-history/

#NYTTransSolidarity

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#NYTTransSolidarity

“We, members of the NewsGuild of New York, are coming together to address critical issues affecting trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming workers in our newsrooms.”

Beyond #NYTTransSolidarity: the #NYGuild extends the call for media worker solidarity on trans rights. Members can sign here: https://bit.ly/transnewsguild

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