Dear @newyorker, how many personal essays have you run by heartbroken parents whose children’s lives have been ruined by their having been told they can change sex? The mental agony, the horrific surgeries, the realisation that it has all been a catastrophic mistake?…1/
Nov 5, 2025 · 11:22 AM UTC
How many reporters have you commissioned to look into the role of pharmaceutical companies in the medicalisation of children who are almost certainly gay? Or the history and composition of WPATH? Or the Yogyakarta Principles and why they have not been endorsed by the UN? 2/
Or the destruction of women’s sport? Or the manipulation of stats re teen suicide? Or the effect this ideology has had on scientific research? Or freedom of expression on campus? Or how it relates to the breakdown of trust in civic institutions? It is notable that the NYer… 3/
…home of legendary reporting, has chosen to sit this one out. It can’t be for lack of promising leads. So why is it? Too toxic? Too divisive? Too difficult? Or is it because too many writers and staff have gone along with child transition for you to be able to cover it with 4/










