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Some recent stories involving the NY Times coverage of the NYC transgender community:
The New York Times Metro Desk fails NYC’s transgender community yet again
Mere weeks after publishing an egregiously exploitative piece on the death of a local transgender woman, The New York Times Metro Desk has once again failed in its coverage of the city’s transgender community.
The New York Times to meet with GLAAD, trans community to address coverage of trans lives
The New York Times has invited GLAAD and trans community members to meet in order to speak about story ideas, and ways to improve the paper’s coverage of the transgender community.
The move follows a sensationalized and exploitative piece on the death of Lorena Escalera who had been the victim of a fire. Yesterday, another article ran focusing on trans youth culture of Christopher Street but did not include some of the deeper issues facing many trans women of color.
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