NYT Columnist David French's Fake Empathy Can't Hide His Real Agenda

His latest column about Tennessee's trans healthcare ban opens with sympathy before arguing to deny care. But his long history of anti-trans writing tells the real story.

Yesterday, New York Times columnist David French opened his latest piece about Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth with a performance of deep empathy. "I cannot begin to imagine the pain," he writes, before predictably pivoting to argue why that pain should be allowed to be legally mandated by the state.

This isn't new territory for …