Agree. His assumption is that the majority of people questioning the approach to gender dysphoria are "bad-faith actors who are trying to undermine trans people and attack trans rights in this country."
Agree. His assumption is that the majority of people questioning the approach to gender dysphoria are "bad-faith actors who are trying to undermine trans people and attack trans rights in this country."
I posted my own comment on this. Up until about 2005, I had a subscription to the New York Times, but stopped subscribing in response to their disastrous reporting on the Iraq War:
Well, I think they can add another "haunting" failure to their already long list of failures. That is failure to report the widespread unnecessary mutilation of teenagers.
Not reported in the New York Times is that most health insurance policies don't provide adequate coverage for mental health therapy to treat conditions like gender dysphoria, anxiety, depression and eating disorders. But health care insurance policies are happy to hand out pills. So no surprise than so many teenagers end up on puberty blockers and hormones.
All the people I see screaming "transphobia" from the rooftops either don't have children at all, or have very young children. They're completely clueless. But some will meet with reality sooner than they think.
Something else may be a factor here. People of a certain class now know at least one person with a transgender child. It's easy for me to see how most people want to be supportive of their friends in this area. Add in the bad faith of the GOP and you've got reasons both to look away and to be on the defense against the hateful right.
Well, people of that certain class now know at least one person who is a girl struggling with anxiety and depression. In fact, if you do the numbers, there are far more teenage girls struggling with anxiety and depression than there are transgender teens.
The prominent psychologist Jonathan Haidt estimates that since 2010, fully one third of girls struggle with anxiety and depression to the point where they have considered suicide. I'm not exaggerating. That's published research. (His substack is After Babel.)
So one third of one half of teenagers is 1 in every six teenagers.
In Canada, the number of young people (20 to 24 years of age) who are trans is about 1 per hundred (based on Stats Can data):
"Under 1 in 100 young adults aged 20 to 24 were non-binary or transgender (0.85%)"
It's possible that there are many more trans teenagers that desist, and do not show up in the 20 to 24 year old data, or possible that the statistics for cities like Toronto and Vancouver, Canada are dramatically different than for New York and San Francisco. However. Even if the rate were twice as high in New York compared to Toronto, you would still only be talking about 1 in every 50.
So 2 in every 100 teens and young people who are trans is probably a reasonable estimate. At the same time, we have a group that consists of 16 in every 100 teens and young people that we almost never hear about and that cannot get appropriate insured medical coverage for their axiety and depression.
If this "group of a certain class" want to be supportive of their friends, then it is a very selective form of support.
The bad faith GOP? I live in San Francisco. I'm a long time liberal from Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver has always had a vibrant LGBT culture. As a registered Democrat, I recently went to vote for Democratic Party delegates in San Francisco. The ballot was loaded with trans identified candidates (about one third were not just trans sympathetic, but trans identified. I saw few family friendly candidates on the ballot and few women. So much for rep by pop. ) Scott Weiner, my state representative, is busy yelling from the rooftops on Twitter that anyone who questions the treatment for gender dysphoric youth is a trans hater and an LBGTQ hater. Anyone who is concerned about women's and girls sports, and the impact that allowing biological boys and men into women's sports, is a trans hater and an LBGTQ hater.
And this isn't the only issue on which the Democrats are currently out to lunch on.
Let's just say that balance of misdeeds is no longer tilted toward the GOP, IMO.
No, not at all but I was trying to get inside the head of a NY Times writer. For them, the concern of their friends well-being would contrast to the anti-trans bills the GOP are proliferating. It makes for an easy moral decision which then translates into an incurious stance when it comes to the facts.
With regard to bad faith, I think the GOP know they have a good wedge issue and will push the envelope toward hatred and division to gain power. It has little to do with the children. It has to do with replacing abortion as a way to win back suburban women. That's bad faith.
I am a longtime feminist. I am also a former competitive track runner at the university level. I do not consider the destruction of women's sports, the mutilation of children and teenagers, and the withholding of psychological care by insurance companies to be wedge issues.
Agree. His assumption is that the majority of people questioning the approach to gender dysphoria are "bad-faith actors who are trying to undermine trans people and attack trans rights in this country."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/a-g-sulzberger-on-the-battles-within-and-against-the-new-york-times
I posted my own comment on this. Up until about 2005, I had a subscription to the New York Times, but stopped subscribing in response to their disastrous reporting on the Iraq War:
https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/how-iraq-war-still-haunts-new-york-times
Well, I think they can add another "haunting" failure to their already long list of failures. That is failure to report the widespread unnecessary mutilation of teenagers.
Not reported in the New York Times is that most health insurance policies don't provide adequate coverage for mental health therapy to treat conditions like gender dysphoria, anxiety, depression and eating disorders. But health care insurance policies are happy to hand out pills. So no surprise than so many teenagers end up on puberty blockers and hormones.
All the people I see screaming "transphobia" from the rooftops either don't have children at all, or have very young children. They're completely clueless. But some will meet with reality sooner than they think.
Something else may be a factor here. People of a certain class now know at least one person with a transgender child. It's easy for me to see how most people want to be supportive of their friends in this area. Add in the bad faith of the GOP and you've got reasons both to look away and to be on the defense against the hateful right.
Well, people of that certain class now know at least one person who is a girl struggling with anxiety and depression. In fact, if you do the numbers, there are far more teenage girls struggling with anxiety and depression than there are transgender teens.
The prominent psychologist Jonathan Haidt estimates that since 2010, fully one third of girls struggle with anxiety and depression to the point where they have considered suicide. I'm not exaggerating. That's published research. (His substack is After Babel.)
So one third of one half of teenagers is 1 in every six teenagers.
In Canada, the number of young people (20 to 24 years of age) who are trans is about 1 per hundred (based on Stats Can data):
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220427/dq220427b-eng.htm
"Under 1 in 100 young adults aged 20 to 24 were non-binary or transgender (0.85%)"
It's possible that there are many more trans teenagers that desist, and do not show up in the 20 to 24 year old data, or possible that the statistics for cities like Toronto and Vancouver, Canada are dramatically different than for New York and San Francisco. However. Even if the rate were twice as high in New York compared to Toronto, you would still only be talking about 1 in every 50.
So 2 in every 100 teens and young people who are trans is probably a reasonable estimate. At the same time, we have a group that consists of 16 in every 100 teens and young people that we almost never hear about and that cannot get appropriate insured medical coverage for their axiety and depression.
If this "group of a certain class" want to be supportive of their friends, then it is a very selective form of support.
The bad faith GOP? I live in San Francisco. I'm a long time liberal from Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver has always had a vibrant LGBT culture. As a registered Democrat, I recently went to vote for Democratic Party delegates in San Francisco. The ballot was loaded with trans identified candidates (about one third were not just trans sympathetic, but trans identified. I saw few family friendly candidates on the ballot and few women. So much for rep by pop. ) Scott Weiner, my state representative, is busy yelling from the rooftops on Twitter that anyone who questions the treatment for gender dysphoric youth is a trans hater and an LBGTQ hater. Anyone who is concerned about women's and girls sports, and the impact that allowing biological boys and men into women's sports, is a trans hater and an LBGTQ hater.
And this isn't the only issue on which the Democrats are currently out to lunch on.
Let's just say that balance of misdeeds is no longer tilted toward the GOP, IMO.
No, not at all but I was trying to get inside the head of a NY Times writer. For them, the concern of their friends well-being would contrast to the anti-trans bills the GOP are proliferating. It makes for an easy moral decision which then translates into an incurious stance when it comes to the facts.
With regard to bad faith, I think the GOP know they have a good wedge issue and will push the envelope toward hatred and division to gain power. It has little to do with the children. It has to do with replacing abortion as a way to win back suburban women. That's bad faith.
I am a longtime feminist. I am also a former competitive track runner at the university level. I do not consider the destruction of women's sports, the mutilation of children and teenagers, and the withholding of psychological care by insurance companies to be wedge issues.
Agreed.