Notices by Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️ (e_urq@journa.host)

NEW: Not one but TWO major US media outlets have been taken over by Brits who previously headed anti-trans culture war obsessed outlets in the US and UK.

Robert Winnett of the psychopathic Telegraph and Hugh Dougherty of disinformation-peddler NY Post will head the Washington Post and Daily Beast. #trans #news #LGBTQ #media #journalism

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/new-york-post-telegraph-take-over-washiington-post-daily-beast

A lesbian dating app that scans faces for true womanhood with 99 percent accuracy, you say? And trans people are *checks notes* oh, huh, it says here we're... roughly 1 percent of the population?

Well! Isn't THAT interesting?

Alyssa Steinsiek gives this wacky new gender critical dating app idea the full roasting it deserves on Assigned Media today.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/transphobic-dating-app-sucks

The Epoch Times is under investigation for money laundering, but the site's role in spreading anti-trans misinformation has gone unmentioned in mainstream coverage of the case.

An Epoch Times link that showed up in a story for the Atlantic is a particularly clear example of the laundering process on trans stories that goes fringe right -> far right -> mainstream.

#trans #news #journalism #media

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/epoch-times-falun-gong-money-laundering-trans-misinfo

NEW: The Cass Review conducted focus groups with gender diverse youth and young adults who had personal experience with gender-affirming care in England. Then it buried them.

Read about the hidden youth perspectives and experiences of the Cass Report on Assigned Media.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/surfacing-cass-report-youth-focus-groups

Following the NYT closely for over a year now, a picture is emerging:

Biased coverage leads back to the biases of one man, publisher A. G. Sulzberger.

The NYT is resistant to correcting errors.

The NYT relies on its reputation as the paper of record to avoid accountability.

Today on Assigned, a story in Politico, and a peek behind the curtain:

#trans #news #journalism #mediabias

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/biden-politico-new-york-times-drama

Discrimination against nonbinary people is real, and a new study from a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto is shining a light on one way it can happen.

Using a well-regarded method, researchers sent out job applications with she/her, they/them, or no pronoun attached. #news #trans #nonbinary #transgender #science

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/they-them-pronouns-discriminated-against-by-employers

It was a real mystery, and required hours of reporting, but we found it.

The source of claims that a new Scottish hate crime law would jail people for misgendering a trans person turned out to be...

...the UK press. They made it up. Completely. #trans #news #journalism #mediabias

Full story here, including a transcript of a BBC Radio 4 program that proves the press shenanigains:

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/rowling-misgendering-hate-crime-scotland

New on Assigned, I found out earlier today that Jonathan Haidt, the author of the splashy new pop-psych book about how smartphones are bad for kids, believes and is promoting a fringe theory that kids are becoming #trans due to social media as well.

Haidt told PBS that "clusters of girls" are developing gender dysphoria when they never had it before.

The problem, of course, is that there's no research whatsoever backing that up. #science #news

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/jonathan-haidt-social-contagion-rogd-pbs

England recently banned new prescriptions for puberty blockers for trans youth, pending a study on their efficacy and safety.

Cisgender children with precocious puberty will still be able to access the drug to treat social and emotional issues associated with early puberty.

We decided a primer on what these drugs are, how they work, and what the concerns are about them would be of use.

Mira Lazine has that coverage on Assigned. #trans #news #science

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/puberty-blocker-primer-england-bans-blockers

I love interveiwing people in Europe bc the scheduling works so perfectly for a morning person like me who gets up at 6am.

8-10am meetings are when I'm really at my best, which doesn't work nearly as well for people in American time zones!

The death of 16 year old Nex Benedict, who spoke of being bullied for his queer identity, has been ruled a suicide.

I would like to see more information clarifying how this determination was made, in light of all the strange ways officials have behaved in the wake of this child's death. #trans #news

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nex-benedict-suicide-death-oklahoma-student-lgbtq-rcna143298

Today on Assigned we've got something/someone new, an essay from the front lines of the Florida public school system by substitute teacher Sarah Khan, who is closeted trans woman.

She describes a changing world where once innocent things like having nicknames or doing make-up for a school musical run afoul of draconian state laws.

This essay is urgent and necessary and makes me so sad. Our students and teachers deserve better. #trans #LGBTQ #news

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/trans-sub-florida-schools-legislation

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For Slate today I wrote about the urgency and importance of seeing Nex's transmasculinity at a time when all the mainstream seems to speak about are "lost daughters" and "troubled girls."

Nex Benedict was transmasculine. Like me. Please. Let him be visible now that he's dead.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/03/nex-benedict-transmasculine-connection.html

A picture of what's been going on at Owasso High School for minority youth, including queer youth like Nex Benedict, is starting to come out.

Kids being called f-- and n----- not bothering to report it because the school does nothing if they do.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/nex-benedict-death-protest-bullying-owasso-oklahoma-rcna140501

Judd Legum on his substack has some VERY eyebrow raising quotes from an Owasso Police officer.

Really needs to be read but this particularly stood out to me: "Boatman told Popular Information that the Owasso Police 'reached out to the medical examiner's office to try to head off some of this national scrutiny.'"

#trans #news #nex

https://popular.info/p/nex-benedicts-mom-raises-doubts-about

I am SICK and TIRED of unfairness in women's sports. That's right, I'm talking about the bullying of Riley Gaines, who's been picking on a Division III trans woman swimmer who Gaines far outpaced when she was still in HIGH SCHOOL.

That's right, I got so fed up with Gaines I went and dug up her old high school times. Turns out the first time she beat the "record" set by Meghan Cortes-Fields she's been calling the end of Title IX she was 14 yrs old. #trans #sports #news

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/riley-gaines-claims-title-ix-means-nothing-because-div-iii-swimmer-is-trans

Conservatives are absolutely incensed that the funeral for Cecilia Gentili, a trans woman, activist, icon, and former sex worker, was held at St. Patrick's.

They've pressured the Archdiocese into holding a "Mass of Reparation" to get the cooties out of the cathedral. #trans #LGBTQ #religion #news

In one particularly shameless example, a Heritage Foundation writer repeatedly called Gentili a "dead prostitute."

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/cecilia-gentili-st-patricks-olohan-daily-signal

The gender police are escalating their intimidation campaign against the trans community and against any cisgender girl who they think doesn't look feminine enough.

In Utah, it's so bad the real police are protecting a cis girl athlete falsely accused online of being trans. Note that this is a completely different cisgender Utah athlete than the one we reported on facing a similar (though less extreme) situation a couple weeks ago. #trans #news

Where does it end?

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/ut-cisgender-athlete-police-protection-threats

A letter to the editor from an anti-trans crank inspired my post today. I'm calling it "Your Bad Faith Questions About Gender Identity, Answered!"

In it we've got things from "Is gender dysphoria just about resisting gender stereotypes?" to "What am gender identity?" to "What about the UK, Sweden, and Finland?"

#trans #journalism #news

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/your-bad-faith-questions-about-gender-identity-answered