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"Not Exactly Consequential": NYT Dismisses Trump's War on Trans Americans

"Not Exactly Consequential": NYT Dismisses Trump's War on Trans Americans

After years of trans panic coverage, the paper now claims attacks on trans rights barely matter.

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Over the weekend, The New York Times published what might be one of the most callous editorial exercises I've seen in a while. In a piece titled "10 Columnists and Writers Rate What Mattered in Trump’s First Full Month", the paper asked writers to rank Trump's first-month actions on a graph. The vertical axis measured importance (more or less important)…

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