Truly unreal. The media should report responsibibly, of course, but the assumption that any decrease in referrals to a clinic is BAD (and that the corresponding massive uptick to gender clinics in recent years is GOOD) is astonishingly naive. It's great that people can access gender affirming care if needed. But somehow until very recently the overwhelming majority of people didn't change gender (it's still a majority, but numbers have slipped from 1 in 30000 to 1 in 30, according to some estimates), and still somehow managed to forge their way in the world. Why is it suddenly something that must be medicalized?
Jesse Singal's latest on Journalism kinda' helps to explain why so many journalists (those who are bright and talented enough to know better) are afraid to do their "fucking jobs." It's all those so-called other "journalists" who don't know what the job is, and who are mindless minions for the "cult of smart." (see Fredrik deBoer).
It Isn’t Journalism’s Job To Hand-Hold People To The Correct Moral Conclusions
I mean, the "negative coverage"was that the investigative reporters found clinicians saying they didn't understand the rise in cases but hoped and prayed medical intervention was best, that people pushing for or having these interventions said that they'd changed their minds about recommending them based on becoming more informed....
Truly unreal. The media should report responsibibly, of course, but the assumption that any decrease in referrals to a clinic is BAD (and that the corresponding massive uptick to gender clinics in recent years is GOOD) is astonishingly naive. It's great that people can access gender affirming care if needed. But somehow until very recently the overwhelming majority of people didn't change gender (it's still a majority, but numbers have slipped from 1 in 30000 to 1 in 30, according to some estimates), and still somehow managed to forge their way in the world. Why is it suddenly something that must be medicalized?
Amen.
And another essay hitting it out of the park!
Thank you!
Jesse Singal's latest on Journalism kinda' helps to explain why so many journalists (those who are bright and talented enough to know better) are afraid to do their "fucking jobs." It's all those so-called other "journalists" who don't know what the job is, and who are mindless minions for the "cult of smart." (see Fredrik deBoer).
It Isn’t Journalism’s Job To Hand-Hold People To The Correct Moral Conclusions
Stop hating your readers
by Jesse Singal
https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/it-isnt-journalisms-job-to-hand-hold
I mean, the "negative coverage"was that the investigative reporters found clinicians saying they didn't understand the rise in cases but hoped and prayed medical intervention was best, that people pushing for or having these interventions said that they'd changed their minds about recommending them based on becoming more informed....
Pesky details...?!