I am so frustrated with the almost total media blackout on these issues. The medical scandal of our lifetime is playing out in real time and in darkness. Before about 6 months ago, I thought it was just the right-wing media that had horrible blindspots ( to gun control or abortion, for example), but after my teen 'came out' as trans with no history of gender issues, I realized that we are not being well served with the simplistic narrative that we should affirm and medicalize all of these kids.
The more I researched, the more I discovered that there are plenty of people trying to figure this out, but all dissent is suppressed. What is NYTimes scared of? Do the editors really believe this new secular religion now being taught in schools and espoused by activists?
Here's a great chart of people who are on r/detrans (note that not everyone on this reddit is detrans, and that not every detrans person hangs out on reddit, some report not wanting to think about it again, having moved on with their lives): https://subredditstats.com/r/detrans
As a 66-year-old long-time reader of the MSM in many forms (but with no experience in the business), I'm not surprised this piece got turned down as an op-ed. It includes original reporting (Laura's story) that would presumably have to be fact-checked first; AFAIK, that's not the purview of the op-ed page editor. It also includes off-topic political jabs ("mainstream or left-wing media", "left and center media": what do these terms mean?) that make it more contentious than it needs to be. Your LA Times op-ed did not have these issues.
I am so frustrated with the almost total media blackout on these issues. The medical scandal of our lifetime is playing out in real time and in darkness. Before about 6 months ago, I thought it was just the right-wing media that had horrible blindspots ( to gun control or abortion, for example), but after my teen 'came out' as trans with no history of gender issues, I realized that we are not being well served with the simplistic narrative that we should affirm and medicalize all of these kids.
The more I researched, the more I discovered that there are plenty of people trying to figure this out, but all dissent is suppressed. What is NYTimes scared of? Do the editors really believe this new secular religion now being taught in schools and espoused by activists?
So much for the left 'believing the science'
Thank you for taking my story, Lisa.
this should be published in MSM, but thanks for publishing it Lisa Davis!
Wonderful
Here's a great chart of people who are on r/detrans (note that not everyone on this reddit is detrans, and that not every detrans person hangs out on reddit, some report not wanting to think about it again, having moved on with their lives): https://subredditstats.com/r/detrans
it's going...up.
Given that people who don't detransition medically need lifetime hormones, one would think that it would be possible to keep track of who keeps taking them and who doesn't; at the moment hormones are given out so indiscriminately that no one knows how many people are getting them. Planned Parenthood doesn't require mental health assessment before starting people on hormones, for instance: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2021/12/14/indiana-planned-parenthood-gender-affirming-hormone-care-now-available-sites/8719772002/ .
As a 66-year-old long-time reader of the MSM in many forms (but with no experience in the business), I'm not surprised this piece got turned down as an op-ed. It includes original reporting (Laura's story) that would presumably have to be fact-checked first; AFAIK, that's not the purview of the op-ed page editor. It also includes off-topic political jabs ("mainstream or left-wing media", "left and center media": what do these terms mean?) that make it more contentious than it needs to be. Your LA Times op-ed did not have these issues.
Thank you for this. The link to the study by Marchiano is broken.