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[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries"[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

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Buzzfeed News: These New York Times Contributors Say The Paper’s Coverage Of Gender Issues Is Hurting Trans People: Their letter accused recent news stories of using “an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language” that vilifies being trans.

New York Times contributors, GLAAD, and many others criticize Times’ coverage of trans people: One open letter draws parallels between the Times’ coverage of trans people and, in earlier decades, its coverage of gay people and HIV/AIDS.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I would want to see the article in question which say the thing about HIV.

The entire premise of that argument is strange if your depiction is accurate. Basically implying all transgender people are parallel to the portion of gays who had contracted an incurable disease?