But in today's society, she asked, 'How many young people, especially those struggling with serious mental-health issues, might be trying to shed aspects of themselves they dislike?'

The rate of regret for adults in the past who had gender-affirming care was very low, she wrote. The letter also focuses on a New York Times magazine article about children who are questioning their gender identity, in which author Emily Bazelon explored what she called 'delicate issues' that had been turned into 'political dynamite' by the right. They say, for example, a January article by correspondent Katie Baker that focused on the challenges schools face when students change their gender identity without their parents' knowledge 'misframed' the issue and failed to make clear that related lawsuits brought by parents against school districts are part of a legal strategy tied to groups that have identified trans people as an 'existential threat.' Media People of color at 'New York Times' get lower ratings in job reviews, union says In the letter, they say the Times has treated coverage of gender diversity 'with an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language,' and recent reporting has omitted some sources' associations with anti-trans groups. It counted a far greater number of writers, such as Ed Yong of The Atlantic and Jia Tolentino of The New Yorker, who contribute only occasionally, and others such as actors Lena Dunham and Cynthia Nixon. The list of signatories include a few prominent Times journalists, including opinion contributor Roxane Gay, culture reporter J Wortham and former reporter Dave Itzkoff.

In the letter addressed to the Times' associate managing editor for standards, the contributors say they have 'serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper's reporting on transgender, non⁠-⁠binary, and gender nonconforming people.'

A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building on in New York.Ībout 200 New York Times contributors have signed an open letter calling out the legacy newspaper for its coverage of transgender issues.

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