It Is Journalism's Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible

[ProfessorPlum]

https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997

“Quentin” is a 14-year-old assigned female at birth who now identifies as male against the wishes of his parents. His transition was supported by one of his unmarried teachers, who is not a virgin. He stole his parents’ car and drove to the hospital, where a doctor immediately began performing top surgery on him. Afterward, driving home drunk from the hospital, Quentin became suicidally depressed, and he wonders now, homeless and ridden with gonorrhea, if transitioning was a mistake.

We just made Quentin up, and that’s okay. It doesn’t mean stories like his aren’t potentially happening everywhere, constantly. Good journalism is about finding those stories, even when they don’t exist. It’s about asking the tough questions and ignoring the answers you don’t like, then offering misleading evidence in service of preordained editorial conclusions. In our case, endangering trans people is the lodestar that shapes our coverage. Frankly, if our work isn’t putting trans people further at risk of trauma and violence, we consider it a failure.

We stand behind our recent obsessed-seeming torrent of articles and essays on trans people, which we believe faithfully depicts their lived experiences as weird and gross. We remain dedicated to finding the angles that best frame the basic rights of the gender-nonconforming as up for debate, and we will use these same angles over and over again in hopes that this repetition makes them suffer. As journalists, it is our obligation to entertain any and all pseudoscience that gives bigotry an intellectual veneer. We must be diligent in laundering our vitriol through the posture of journalistic inquiry, and we must be allowed to fixate on the genitals.

The Onion writes what the NYT should have.

[moniss]

1. The NYT has become

a disgrace.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. THIS.

[Initech]

4. The New York Times isn't the problem. Fox News is the problem.

Hate sells, and the Murdochs have the most profitable business in that industry. NYT is just trying to emulate what sells right now. And that is a disgrace.

[ProfessorPlum]

5. the new york times is a huge problem on its own

its trans coverage has been abysmal, as if (as stated above) the rights of trans people are up for debate. Their readership spreads that anti-trans bias towards a much bigger and different audience than Faux.

[vercetti2021]

6. No one cares to defend us

Its more fun to demonize us for the possibility of a genocide.

[ProfessorPlum]

7. I'm also very concerned

our friends in the trans community need protection and positive support. Not the demonization that conservatives and the NYT are dishing out.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. I love good satire