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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
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January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
Kinda wanna go on the modest mouse cruise
December 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Kinda wanna go on the modest mouse cruise
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Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
Watch Rep. Sarah McBride's Powerful Statement on Republicans' Anti-Trans Obsession
The first openly trans member of Congress made a rare, personal appeal as the GOP wages an all-out assault on trans youth.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
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"The Department of DOJ has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence, according to an internal memo obtained by NPR."
They want trans people raped.
They want trans people raped.
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"The Department of DOJ has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence, according to an internal memo obtained by NPR."
They want trans people raped.
They want trans people raped.
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I live as a man and am seen as a man. That is a verifiable fact whether or not I am "really" a man. Having a passport that outs me would expose my private life and put me in danger. The government shouldn't get to impose that on me because of some philosophical abstraction.
November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I live as a man and am seen as a man. That is a verifiable fact whether or not I am "really" a man. Having a passport that outs me would expose my private life and put me in danger. The government shouldn't get to impose that on me because of some philosophical abstraction.
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I really dislike this question of whether trans people are "really" women/men. It's the framing the anti-trans activists prefer, and as far as I'm concerned it's also completely irrelevant.
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I really dislike this question of whether trans people are "really" women/men. It's the framing the anti-trans activists prefer, and as far as I'm concerned it's also completely irrelevant.
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What many quotes seem to say is having identity documents at odds with your lived sex creates opportunities for discrimination and harassment.
The reporter heard about these practical concerns, but chose to focus her story more on what a trans person's "true" identity is and who gets to decide it.
The reporter heard about these practical concerns, but chose to focus her story more on what a trans person's "true" identity is and who gets to decide it.
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
What many quotes seem to say is having identity documents at odds with your lived sex creates opportunities for discrimination and harassment.
The reporter heard about these practical concerns, but chose to focus her story more on what a trans person's "true" identity is and who gets to decide it.
The reporter heard about these practical concerns, but chose to focus her story more on what a trans person's "true" identity is and who gets to decide it.
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What I dislike about the story is that the author presents the central tension as being about identity and validity: Are trans people "really" who we say we are?
The story claims that this is what many trans people told the reporter. Interestingly, none of the quotes from trans people say this.
The story claims that this is what many trans people told the reporter. Interestingly, none of the quotes from trans people say this.
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
What I dislike about the story is that the author presents the central tension as being about identity and validity: Are trans people "really" who we say we are?
The story claims that this is what many trans people told the reporter. Interestingly, none of the quotes from trans people say this.
The story claims that this is what many trans people told the reporter. Interestingly, none of the quotes from trans people say this.
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I really disliked this piece on trans passports by Amy Harmon of the New York Times. It is, admittedly, an "old" New York Times story, one that makes a reasonable effort to cloak its biases and present itself as seeking both sides of a story ("new" NYT stories don't bother).
Here's a gift link:
Here's a gift link:
New Passport Rule Sends Blunt and Sweeping Message to Trans Americans
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I really disliked this piece on trans passports by Amy Harmon of the New York Times. It is, admittedly, an "old" New York Times story, one that makes a reasonable effort to cloak its biases and present itself as seeking both sides of a story ("new" NYT stories don't bother).
Here's a gift link:
Here's a gift link:
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Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
![Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to establish that the Government's choice to display biological sex "lack[s] any purpose other than a bare ... desire to harm a politically unpopular group." Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by declining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress expressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreigev37etpfwfdxjlnt3pz5qyueldxo3k6rfxw5ip477gp7inlrctq@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
The Trump administration on price data:
October 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The Trump administration on price data:
Gay Halloween in DC this year is gonna be crazy
October 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Gay Halloween in DC this year is gonna be crazy
Does anybody know if we gotta bring our backpacks to the rapture?
September 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Does anybody know if we gotta bring our backpacks to the rapture?
Average DC apartment listing: BRIGHT AND SPACIOUS GARDEN-LEVEL STUDIO - LIGHT-FILLED INTERIOR - AUTHENTIC EXPOSED BRICK - INCLUDES A SWIMMING POOL!!!!! $2700/month
June 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Average DC apartment listing: BRIGHT AND SPACIOUS GARDEN-LEVEL STUDIO - LIGHT-FILLED INTERIOR - AUTHENTIC EXPOSED BRICK - INCLUDES A SWIMMING POOL!!!!! $2700/month
JB Pritzker’s speechwriters:
April 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
JB Pritzker’s speechwriters:
I give it 10 years until the US gets boda bodas
April 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I give it 10 years until the US gets boda bodas
Wondering lately why a scarf can so often be an Inside Garment in a women’s outfit but always feels an Outside Garment in a men’s outfit
December 3, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Wondering lately why a scarf can so often be an Inside Garment in a women’s outfit but always feels an Outside Garment in a men’s outfit
The older I get, the more like my dad I become. Sleepy after 1 beer, can’t stand watching Trump give speeches cause I can’t stand him, biologically male
January 16, 2024 at 3:51 AM
The older I get, the more like my dad I become. Sleepy after 1 beer, can’t stand watching Trump give speeches cause I can’t stand him, biologically male
good mornong blueskyers
October 18, 2023 at 1:55 PM
good mornong blueskyers
hoping to hang out here more often
October 17, 2023 at 7:18 PM
hoping to hang out here more often