I'm sorry, but this is in indication of just how generally left-wing PITT really is.
"deeply believing we could rely upon the New York Times for factual and unbiased reporting"
Folks, this has not been true for a decade plus. If you're just noticing it now, you are in an epistemic bubble that you are apparently unaware of. Bari Weiss' departure from the NYT was caused by this. It's not new.
The Times and WaPo are the newspapers of middle-class+, establishment opinion. They have a narrative (everyone does; narratives are how we find meaning) and will do everything in their power to uphold it. This is true pretty much across the media landscape, but especially so in the mainline, establishment press, which (like the mainline, establishment religions) are hemorrhaging readers every week as more and more people realize just how divorced from reality they are.
I'm pleased some people here are questioning their faith in the NYT. But Michael Crichton's Gel-Mann Amnesia is very real. So now that you know the NYT lies, because you've seen them cover a subject you know very well, don't assume the rest of their stories (about subjects you don't know well) are any more accurate than these.
This is a fantastic account -- bravo for tracking everything and putting it down in black and white. Could this now be submitted as a Letter to the Editor of the NYT?
Unfortunately, so much of MSM has degenerated into "journalism" slop, along with the party that is now Democrat slop. Not surprising when the head of the once prestigious Columbia School of Journalism, Jelani Cobb, has pronounced trans as the new civil rights movement. It's now a slop factory. If you are not now politically homeless, you are not paying sufficient attention.
What hurts the most, isn't the venality of how lacking "journalism" is, of integrity. It's the feeling of betrayal.
There is an antidote, albeit a tedious one.
That antidote, is to spend time at a public library, poring over the historical record of NYT publications. Go back far enough, and the term "yellow journalism" acquires meaning.
The child abuse will not stop through any agency of the NYT. When it becomes unprofitable to continue to support injuring and killing children, the NYT will pivot to condemning the brutality that they now encourage and support.
I was a lifelong NYT reader who dropped the paper in disgust over the 100% imbalanced reporting on the transexual issue around 2020- 21, specifically because they would only report one side. The other didn't even exist! I would have been OK with the articles by their Trans Activist Icon James/Jennifer Boylan glorifying medical transition if equal or at least some space had been given to Abigail Shier and her book "Irreversible Damage" when it came out.
That didn't happen. Here's James and son, Zach, who followed in his father's medical footsteps:
1) "Jennifer Finney Boylan
Family life, parenting, LGBT issues. More
Jennifer Finney Boylan has written for the Times opinion pages since 2007. She is the author of 15 books, including the novel "Long Black Veil.” She is the Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University.
2) Son of transgender author: 'I live in a normal family'
"When noted transgender author Jennifer Finney Boylan began the transition from male to female, she believed her marriage to wife Deedie Boylan was most likely over. Instead, it is still going strong 25 years since the two tied the knot, and her relationship to their two sons is equally solid. In an interview with Harry Smith that will air on "Rock Center with Brian Williams" Friday at 10 p.m. ET,
The NYT sold it's journalism soul to a dangerous, activist cause. No one can transition from male to female or female to male. This is harmful cosmetic medicine paid for by insurance. But, you won't hear that voice at the NYT! It is all the BS fit to print now. They will not allow any dissenting voices or research that violates the Trans-Narrative^TM. They are owned by it.
The WSJ does the same thing. They use a commenting system called "OpenWeb" whose AI is hopelessly biased and lets the trans activists post anything they want, but anything not in sync with Trans Ideology, even if it is in keeping with the actual article or opinion piece the comment is on, gets blocked due to "Community Standards", and if you get blocked enough, all your comments become invisible, regardless of topic.
Expect more of this use of AI. The lawyers will love it. The insurance companies will demand it. And why not... it keeps people safe from disinformation. :-(
Gone are the days when the COVID-era, Biden White House disinformation team had to flag posts and call up Facebook to have people shadow-banned. Now it happens in milliseconds.
I am a parent of a confused child made believed he was born in the wrong body, but I AM NOT and NEVER HAVE BEEN a loyal reader of the New York Times, and the reason it's because such news outlet is just Soro's whore period. No need to say more
I was never a faithful NYT reader. Perhaps 3 decades ago I enjoyed their Sunday stories and used their Help Wanted Ads (remember those?). Oh, and I enjoyed looking at their ads for unaffordable real estate and (almost equally unaffordable) recipes. Honest journalism? Not sure they ever had it.
The NYTimes only advances the globalist agenda. Promoting the transgendering (chemically and surgically castrating) of children and young adults is a significant part of that agenda.
I don't read or watch NYT, WaPo or countless other mainstream media sources for a reason. I also do not believe my daughter ever had 'gender dysphoria.' I believe she joined a cult on a college campus and many years later with bodily damage exited the cult. She was never 'treated' for a thing. She was significantly harmed. 'Gender dysphoria' to me is cult language.
I am glad to hear your daughter got out of the cult, Mothers Grim.
I agree with you that "gender dysphoria" is just a made up term to justify medicalization. But, it does not even make internal sense: is it a problem or a glorious identity? Medicine should suffer shame for this. Psychologist Dr. Williams lays it out well:
“Why ‘Gender Dysphoria’ is a lie” by Clinical psychologist Pamala Williams”
What a great article! Thanks to Pamela Williams for laying it out so clearly why so many professionals cling to their bible of classifications, creating a living hell for those attempting to raise a family.
ALL parents need to read it but here is a bit:
"Gender Dysphoria is in reality a long con. It is treated as a valid construct only because it appears in the DSM. But the DSM is merely a trade manual for the American Psychiatric Association. It is a revenue-producing commercial publication. In terms of its clinical rigour, the DSM definition of Gender Dysphoria is analogous to a description for an item being sold in the Screwfix Catalogue, or a used car description in Auto Trader Magazine!
Gender Dysphoria was created by committee. Some people sat down in a room in 2013 and simply invented its diagnostic properties. There was no application of the scientific method in its conceptualisation and categorisation. "
We canceled our subscription a few years ago, after I found myself sitting at the kitchen table reading the Sunday Times, shouting at it. They care only about subscriber numbers, so we voted w our feet.
Having said that, I’m glad you’re trying to hold them accountable!
Thank you for canceling the New York Times newspaper. New York Times has been critical of Robert F. Kennedy junior, attacking his character by calling him “fringe”, “conspiracy theorist”. Yet RFK Jr, along with Trump, have done good work to help end sex rejection procedures. Not the least of which has been exposing the dangers of vaccines, improving federal food guidelines, removing food additives, and researching autism. All these directly impact mental health and the current contagion that funnels children into the hands of trans groomers.
We still subscribe to both the Washington Post and the NYTimes although their coverage of the trans issue continues to rile me. Just the other day the Times posted this https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/opinion/mass-shooters-online-radicalization.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T1A.xrjH.4jCTNZ8iduAV&smid=url-share referring to two males as female. A few comments critical of this got through but mine did not. I was civil but not civil enough? Other commenters were registering alarm that “females” are now part of the equation underscoring the sloppiness of their reporting. I am guessing they will walk away carefully from this position but never admit the part they played in the insanity.
You know they lie. You know because their coverage of an issue you are deeply familiar with is riddled with not just inaccuracies but outright falsehoods. When you read the rest of the articles (on subject you don't know as well), why would you think their coverage is any more accurate than it is about trans?
The NYT is telling you (by their trans coverage) that they care more about preserving a narrative than telling the truth. Why would you pay for that?
BTW: Michael Crichton coined a term for this phenomenon, which is quite common. He calls is the Gel-Mann Amnesia effect.
That’s a good point. Do you have a “best” news source? The BBC seems captured. I don’t know that I have ever seen any trans coverage on the AP. I guess my assumption is that on this issue too many publications are wimpy about confronting the lies
The New York Times (and the WaPo, CNN, NBC and any other bourgeois media) mislead their readers into believing whatever the ruling class wants them to? Well colour me shocked
Thank you for all you are doing. I do not read The New York Times or the Washington Post because they misguide their readers with false information. I have relatives and friends who read these newspapers and, for this reason, they are getting misguided information on the trans topic which is so detrimental. I have an estranged trans son. He made a huge mistake and is being harmed through the trans cult mindset as well as by its destructive medicalization practices. My son needed psychotherapy with a professional psychologist, not trans ideology through the help of an affirmation therapist he consulted. Would it be possible for you to give to The New York Times (to read and review) a new book, The Gender Framework, that was for sale at Genspect's very recent Detrans Awareness Day 2026 in Washington D.C.? Here is a link to the book: https://genspect.org/resources/the-gender-framework/ . In addition, could you push The New York Times to become aware of Genspect and to encourage them to send one of its journalists Genspect's conference in Toronto in the fall to hear all of the experts and to meet detransitioners and parents? I attended the Genspect conference in Albuquerque last fall and know how this experience in 2026 in Toronto could set The New York Times straight.
I think the NYT has its ears plugged but they should still be held to account. Good suggestion.
WaPo pretended to have balanced reporting once because they published and article that included the words of Dr. Laura Edwards Leeper who voices distress that things "have gone too far" - that "too many" children are getting medicalized and things should be "more slow and careful". She seems to think she has a divining rod for "true trans", that magical identity that should be medicalized.
I have come to think she might be among the most dangerous quacks in the field.
"She was the founding psychologist for the Gender Management Service (GeMS) at Boston Children's Hospital, the first interdisciplinary, pediatric, hospital-based clinic in the United States to offer assessment and medical intervention to transgender youth. Dr. Edwards-Leeper was trained by the renowned Dr. Peggy Cohen-Kettenis in the Netherlands and adapted the “Dutch Protocol,” currently the only empirically supported assessment and treatment protocol for transgender youth, to be used in the United States."
She's smart enough to see should could be in trouble as the person who started the first trans clinic for children in the US and clearly she wants to keep the lucrative destruction going. It is her career. So, she positions herself as a "moderate" in a wonderful field that has just gotten a little messy.
I'm sorry, but this is in indication of just how generally left-wing PITT really is.
"deeply believing we could rely upon the New York Times for factual and unbiased reporting"
Folks, this has not been true for a decade plus. If you're just noticing it now, you are in an epistemic bubble that you are apparently unaware of. Bari Weiss' departure from the NYT was caused by this. It's not new.
The Times and WaPo are the newspapers of middle-class+, establishment opinion. They have a narrative (everyone does; narratives are how we find meaning) and will do everything in their power to uphold it. This is true pretty much across the media landscape, but especially so in the mainline, establishment press, which (like the mainline, establishment religions) are hemorrhaging readers every week as more and more people realize just how divorced from reality they are.
I'm pleased some people here are questioning their faith in the NYT. But Michael Crichton's Gel-Mann Amnesia is very real. So now that you know the NYT lies, because you've seen them cover a subject you know very well, don't assume the rest of their stories (about subjects you don't know well) are any more accurate than these.
This is a fantastic account -- bravo for tracking everything and putting it down in black and white. Could this now be submitted as a Letter to the Editor of the NYT?
They don't care. It's not about being accurate. It's about preserving a narrative of the world.
The NYT has been lying to it's readers for at least a decade that I can count, and anyone who was reading it, wanted to be lied to. No sympathy.
Unfortunately, so much of MSM has degenerated into "journalism" slop, along with the party that is now Democrat slop. Not surprising when the head of the once prestigious Columbia School of Journalism, Jelani Cobb, has pronounced trans as the new civil rights movement. It's now a slop factory. If you are not now politically homeless, you are not paying sufficient attention.
Dear "Formerly Trusting:"
What hurts the most, isn't the venality of how lacking "journalism" is, of integrity. It's the feeling of betrayal.
There is an antidote, albeit a tedious one.
That antidote, is to spend time at a public library, poring over the historical record of NYT publications. Go back far enough, and the term "yellow journalism" acquires meaning.
The child abuse will not stop through any agency of the NYT. When it becomes unprofitable to continue to support injuring and killing children, the NYT will pivot to condemning the brutality that they now encourage and support.
It were ever thus.
I was a lifelong NYT reader who dropped the paper in disgust over the 100% imbalanced reporting on the transexual issue around 2020- 21, specifically because they would only report one side. The other didn't even exist! I would have been OK with the articles by their Trans Activist Icon James/Jennifer Boylan glorifying medical transition if equal or at least some space had been given to Abigail Shier and her book "Irreversible Damage" when it came out.
That didn't happen. Here's James and son, Zach, who followed in his father's medical footsteps:
1) "Jennifer Finney Boylan
Family life, parenting, LGBT issues. More
Jennifer Finney Boylan has written for the Times opinion pages since 2007. She is the author of 15 books, including the novel "Long Black Veil.” She is the Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University.
Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays."
https://www.nytimes.com/column/jennifer-finney-boylan
2) Son of transgender author: 'I live in a normal family'
"When noted transgender author Jennifer Finney Boylan began the transition from male to female, she believed her marriage to wife Deedie Boylan was most likely over. Instead, it is still going strong 25 years since the two tied the knot, and her relationship to their two sons is equally solid. In an interview with Harry Smith that will air on "Rock Center with Brian Williams" Friday at 10 p.m. ET,
May 2, 2013, 8:13 AM PDT"
https://www.today.com/popculture/son-transgender-author-i-live-normal-family-6C9733509
The sons are named Zach and Sean. Note that it is Zach Boylan who said he lived in a totally normal family with the dad post transition. Next...
3) James/Jennifer Finney, two sons, Zach and Sean & wife, Deirdra:
His son, Zach, decided to medically transition just like his father, and now goes by Zaira. A "chip off the old block"!
The father is a trans activist and an "icon" of the movement who transed beginning in 2000.
https://marriedceleb.com/jennifer-finney-boylan-daughter-and-married-life
The NYT sold it's journalism soul to a dangerous, activist cause. No one can transition from male to female or female to male. This is harmful cosmetic medicine paid for by insurance. But, you won't hear that voice at the NYT! It is all the BS fit to print now. They will not allow any dissenting voices or research that violates the Trans-Narrative^TM. They are owned by it.
The WSJ does the same thing. They use a commenting system called "OpenWeb" whose AI is hopelessly biased and lets the trans activists post anything they want, but anything not in sync with Trans Ideology, even if it is in keeping with the actual article or opinion piece the comment is on, gets blocked due to "Community Standards", and if you get blocked enough, all your comments become invisible, regardless of topic.
Expect more of this use of AI. The lawyers will love it. The insurance companies will demand it. And why not... it keeps people safe from disinformation. :-(
Gone are the days when the COVID-era, Biden White House disinformation team had to flag posts and call up Facebook to have people shadow-banned. Now it happens in milliseconds.
I am a parent of a confused child made believed he was born in the wrong body, but I AM NOT and NEVER HAVE BEEN a loyal reader of the New York Times, and the reason it's because such news outlet is just Soro's whore period. No need to say more
I was never a faithful NYT reader. Perhaps 3 decades ago I enjoyed their Sunday stories and used their Help Wanted Ads (remember those?). Oh, and I enjoyed looking at their ads for unaffordable real estate and (almost equally unaffordable) recipes. Honest journalism? Not sure they ever had it.
The NYTimes only advances the globalist agenda. Promoting the transgendering (chemically and surgically castrating) of children and young adults is a significant part of that agenda.
I don't read or watch NYT, WaPo or countless other mainstream media sources for a reason. I also do not believe my daughter ever had 'gender dysphoria.' I believe she joined a cult on a college campus and many years later with bodily damage exited the cult. She was never 'treated' for a thing. She was significantly harmed. 'Gender dysphoria' to me is cult language.
I am glad to hear your daughter got out of the cult, Mothers Grim.
I agree with you that "gender dysphoria" is just a made up term to justify medicalization. But, it does not even make internal sense: is it a problem or a glorious identity? Medicine should suffer shame for this. Psychologist Dr. Williams lays it out well:
“Why ‘Gender Dysphoria’ is a lie” by Clinical psychologist Pamala Williams”
https://web.archive.org/web/20250120044738/https://dionneinlondon.substack.com/p/why-gender-dysphoria-is-a-lie
What a great article! Thanks to Pamela Williams for laying it out so clearly why so many professionals cling to their bible of classifications, creating a living hell for those attempting to raise a family.
ALL parents need to read it but here is a bit:
"Gender Dysphoria is in reality a long con. It is treated as a valid construct only because it appears in the DSM. But the DSM is merely a trade manual for the American Psychiatric Association. It is a revenue-producing commercial publication. In terms of its clinical rigour, the DSM definition of Gender Dysphoria is analogous to a description for an item being sold in the Screwfix Catalogue, or a used car description in Auto Trader Magazine!
Gender Dysphoria was created by committee. Some people sat down in a room in 2013 and simply invented its diagnostic properties. There was no application of the scientific method in its conceptualisation and categorisation. "
There you have it - living hell created!
We canceled our subscription a few years ago, after I found myself sitting at the kitchen table reading the Sunday Times, shouting at it. They care only about subscriber numbers, so we voted w our feet.
Having said that, I’m glad you’re trying to hold them accountable!
Thank you for canceling the New York Times newspaper. New York Times has been critical of Robert F. Kennedy junior, attacking his character by calling him “fringe”, “conspiracy theorist”. Yet RFK Jr, along with Trump, have done good work to help end sex rejection procedures. Not the least of which has been exposing the dangers of vaccines, improving federal food guidelines, removing food additives, and researching autism. All these directly impact mental health and the current contagion that funnels children into the hands of trans groomers.
We still subscribe to both the Washington Post and the NYTimes although their coverage of the trans issue continues to rile me. Just the other day the Times posted this https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/opinion/mass-shooters-online-radicalization.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T1A.xrjH.4jCTNZ8iduAV&smid=url-share referring to two males as female. A few comments critical of this got through but mine did not. I was civil but not civil enough? Other commenters were registering alarm that “females” are now part of the equation underscoring the sloppiness of their reporting. I am guessing they will walk away carefully from this position but never admit the part they played in the insanity.
Serious question...
You know they lie. You know because their coverage of an issue you are deeply familiar with is riddled with not just inaccuracies but outright falsehoods. When you read the rest of the articles (on subject you don't know as well), why would you think their coverage is any more accurate than it is about trans?
The NYT is telling you (by their trans coverage) that they care more about preserving a narrative than telling the truth. Why would you pay for that?
BTW: Michael Crichton coined a term for this phenomenon, which is quite common. He calls is the Gel-Mann Amnesia effect.
That’s a good point. Do you have a “best” news source? The BBC seems captured. I don’t know that I have ever seen any trans coverage on the AP. I guess my assumption is that on this issue too many publications are wimpy about confronting the lies
The New York Times (and the WaPo, CNN, NBC and any other bourgeois media) mislead their readers into believing whatever the ruling class wants them to? Well colour me shocked
Thank you for all you are doing. I do not read The New York Times or the Washington Post because they misguide their readers with false information. I have relatives and friends who read these newspapers and, for this reason, they are getting misguided information on the trans topic which is so detrimental. I have an estranged trans son. He made a huge mistake and is being harmed through the trans cult mindset as well as by its destructive medicalization practices. My son needed psychotherapy with a professional psychologist, not trans ideology through the help of an affirmation therapist he consulted. Would it be possible for you to give to The New York Times (to read and review) a new book, The Gender Framework, that was for sale at Genspect's very recent Detrans Awareness Day 2026 in Washington D.C.? Here is a link to the book: https://genspect.org/resources/the-gender-framework/ . In addition, could you push The New York Times to become aware of Genspect and to encourage them to send one of its journalists Genspect's conference in Toronto in the fall to hear all of the experts and to meet detransitioners and parents? I attended the Genspect conference in Albuquerque last fall and know how this experience in 2026 in Toronto could set The New York Times straight.
I think the NYT has its ears plugged but they should still be held to account. Good suggestion.
WaPo pretended to have balanced reporting once because they published and article that included the words of Dr. Laura Edwards Leeper who voices distress that things "have gone too far" - that "too many" children are getting medicalized and things should be "more slow and careful". She seems to think she has a divining rod for "true trans", that magical identity that should be medicalized.
I have come to think she might be among the most dangerous quacks in the field.
"She was the founding psychologist for the Gender Management Service (GeMS) at Boston Children's Hospital, the first interdisciplinary, pediatric, hospital-based clinic in the United States to offer assessment and medical intervention to transgender youth. Dr. Edwards-Leeper was trained by the renowned Dr. Peggy Cohen-Kettenis in the Netherlands and adapted the “Dutch Protocol,” currently the only empirically supported assessment and treatment protocol for transgender youth, to be used in the United States."
https://www.drlauraedwardsleeper.com/new-page-1
She's smart enough to see should could be in trouble as the person who started the first trans clinic for children in the US and clearly she wants to keep the lucrative destruction going. It is her career. So, she positions herself as a "moderate" in a wonderful field that has just gotten a little messy.
I wish that Dr. Edwards-Leeper, WPATH, and others just like them would be subjected to a congressional hearing.
Yes... That should happen.
And, I wish the FTC well in its efforts.
I wish for a class action lawsuit against WPATH, too.
among others