Saturday, April 8, 2023

'Free Press' story misrepresented a kid's transition, the kid says

A Bari Weiss and Emily Yoffe story in the Free Press led to the kid whose story was at issue taking to Twitter to correct the record. This in turn drew these responses:

  • "I wonder if the @nytimes will see fit to stop assigning stories that follow Bari Weiss’s reporting-shaped posts on her Substack now that vulnerable marginalized people are risking substantial harm to refute her endless mischaracterizations and elisions / This whole thing is a really useful example of why pundits are awful reporters and ought not to be confused with them" — @samthielman
  • "They continue to lie to try to attack the Missouri gender clinic. One trans person comes out against the way their experience with gender affirming care was depicted by TheFP. This is the same org that published Jamie Reed's false article. This is worth reading entirely." — Erin Reed
  • "Across all this "they're transing your kids!" scaremongering, from this Bari hack piece to Singal leaking kids' medical information, is a consistent silencing and outright contempt for the actual kids they're allegedly trying to protect from the trans epidemic / They don't care about these kids. To these hacks the kids are just props for their propaganda, and letting them speak diminishes their value
    It's just so gd disgusting how they claim the banner of defending these kids while outright seeking to harm them" — Routine Denima
  • "This is a story about a teen and parents who disagree about treatment. The teen lives primarily with the dad who is in favor of puberty blockers while the mom isn’t. Family members don’t always agree. That is if you take this story at face value, which is unwise." — @ijbailey
  • "I'm just going to straight up say that transphobic journalism, any transphobic journalism is in violation of the SPJ code of ethics. If hacks like Bari Weiss want to be treated like journalists, let them. Hold them accountable for their shitty reporting and the damage it does. Who ignores a source's corrections to a story AFTER offering them the opportunity for prior review? Who doesn't change a story in response to a source's corrections? Shitty transphobic "journalists," that's who. I'm so sorry that this shit happened and will keep happening." — Dr. Johnathan Flowers
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    • "So the gender criticals have decided that the “reasonable” course of action is dogpiling a literal teenager who tried to correct numerous lies and inaccuracies in a viral article about their life." — Katelyn Burns

    "Love it when the main character is a transphobic reporter. And that everyone who shares her unethical story that shared medical details about a minor without both of her custodial parents’ approvals is inundated with others pointing out how horrid that is and linking to the teen. Hate that a 16 year old spent the day finding people sharing transphobic misinformation about herself and posting her own story beneath it." — A. H.

    "Here’s the thing that’s most galling about that Yoffe/Weiss article, they’ll claim that they talked to the child in question and included their views. And [they're] correct! But that’s not the insidious part. The child directly contradicted their reporting and they didn’t follow up / It’s one thing to include a quote for balance, but we’ve all had stories where a new source throws everything into question. Reporters want to publish because they’ve worked hard. But just including that without doing any follow up is dangerous. / That’s what happened here. They didn’t attempt to talk to the dad. They didn’t attempt to talk to the child to corroborate the mothers account. They didn’t call another expert to say “hey we have two competing narratives here” they just went w/ the mom and skeptic expert. / That’s a major ethical faux pas and just including the quote *which contradicted the entire story* isn’t enough to withstand any sort of scrutiny, nor does it justify publishing a story against one of the subject’s — who is a minor and not a public figure — wishes." — Sydney Bauer

    "You cannot solely rely on parent narratives about trans youth or their health care when the reason trans youth are overrepresented in homeless shelters, juvenile detention, and foster care is because they are more frequently abused and rejected by their parents. I've met countless parents who would die for their trans youth, and I'm so thankful for their voices and their love. I also know most would agree sympathy that only reaches them and not their child is a half-measure at best." — Gillian Branstetter

    fawn in woods
    tweet from Patricia Bunnywoman: conservatives can't fathom progressive parents having an actual dialogue with their kids and treating them with autonomy so they automatically assume the libs are transing kids because it's exactly what they do with religion and ideology
    its obvious in the laws and rhetoric that they don't care about forcing kids into certain molds if its a system they agree with, allowing a kid to shape their own destiny and make choices about their body of their own free will is just not a thing they can comprehend

    By the way, on interviewing people who may have emotional trauma:

    Danielle Campoamor @DCampoamor tweets Apr 26, 2022: Check in w/your interviewee regularly incase they need a beat. Encourage them to look for signs of overwhelm/anxiety in their body. Remind them that they don't have to answer questions they don't want to. Let them know a pub date so they can prepare. It all makes a difference. It doesn’t matter if they’ve been interviewed two times or 1,000,000,000 times — there is no timeline to trauma, so treat every interview as if it’s their first & prob triggering. If possible, check in a day or so after the piece is published, just to see how they’re feeling. And while it’s not meant to be the reason you interview w/ compassion, interviewees who feel safe and respected when speaking to you will be more open w/ you. Being trauma-aware and informed literally makes you better at your job. Be a human. Be thoughtful. Be kind. It helps.

    August 2023

    Assigned Media (Evan Urquhart) Just saw there's a new Azeen Ghorayshi story in the NYT with a big picture of Jamie Reed up top. So, that's how my day is going to go I guess.
    Here, Ghorayashi is inflating the number of detransitions (which is only 16) by including patients who changed their gender identity without stopping hormones. Someone who continues treatment but uses a different word to describe themselves, counts as a detransition here.
    It is stunningly dishonest and misleading to include someone who goes from using he/him pronouns to he/they without detransitioning as a detransitioner and the only reason I can imagine for doing so would be bc the number of detransitions was so low.

    "If it turned out to be a negative story about the Center the family insisted they reserved the right to pull out. ... now they were faced with a terrible dilemma. If they pulled out of the story there would be nothing on the record showing that Reed’s affidavit directly misrepresented a specific event." — "'You betrayed us, Azeen'," Evan Urquhart, Assigned Media, September 3, 2023

    The NYT did not really try to corroborate Jamie Reed's story

    September 29, 2023 video: "The New York Times' Anti-Trans Agenda" by Caelan Conrad. This video is about Azeen Ghorayshi and Jamie Reed.

    Perfect example of how journalists like Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT launder far right anti-trans views into the NYT. She interviewed Dr. Hilary Cass and completely omitted the fact that she met with DeSantis appointees regarding their ban. When I challenged her on this, she claimed there was no error

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    — Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.bsky.social) May 13, 2024 at 11:59 AM

    It's frustrating to no end just how much of the problem with trans media coverage is stuff like this. It's so hard to explain to normies why the habitual omission of context is so bad.

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    — Turbo Duo Lipa (@cambrianera.radical.town) May 13, 2024 at 12:15 PM

    For more, subscribe at https://ground.news/caelan

    My favorite Jesse tweets are the ones where I'm a dangerous, maleficent ideologue but where he also can't find anything I said that was false.

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    — Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) Jun 3, 2024 at 12:15 PM

    If your journalism start-up is valued at $100 million, the odds are good that whatever you're doing is already serving (or will end up serving) the interest of the billionaire class in a way that harms the public. [Reposted for clarity] www.ft.com/content/de99...

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    — Andrea Pitzer (@andreapitzer.bsky.social) September 25, 2024 at 9:20 PM

    This is how the Free Press operates

    "Out of the blue, according to the complaint, one student [incidentally, "the daughter of the head of school"] asked, 'Why did France ban the hijab?'

    Protopappas said she responded by thanking the student and then giving the class some background about why the French law banning hijabs and all other visible religious symbols in public K-12 schools was in accordance with the country’s belief in secularism, or laïcité. She said she invited the class to consider the pros and cons of this law, which came into being after a nationwide debate in which some Muslim women advocated to protect young students from family pressures to wear the veil."

    The story goes on:

    "According to an email shared with The Free Press, when she finally met with Zahler, the director of teaching and learning, he told her that 'some students' found her comments regarding the hijab 'Islamophobic.'" [My French Teacher Was Beloved for 25 Years. Then She Was Asked About Hijabs. M. J. Koch, The Free Press, Sep 19, 2024]

    If this was published anywhere other than Bari Weiss's website they would have asked the teacher to specify what she actually said. www.thefp.com/p/spence-tea...

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    — Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) September 29, 2024 at 10:50 AM

    "Students asked me why children get vaccines and I provided some background information. Next thing you know I was fired!"

    — Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) September 29, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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