Welcome to a Cytations Needed News Brief.

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We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled full length episodes when I don't

know, for instance, the New York Times, our paper of record is doubling down on its policy

of just asking questions and both sides of the trend and rights.

The New York Times has been in the news and making news lately based on its obsession with

trans people and its subsequent attacks in publication.

So first just a little background on Wednesday, February 15th, a collective of hundreds of

New York Times contributors, both past and present, published an open letter to the

Times itself in response to the alarming pattern of consistently hostile and dangerous

coverage of transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming people.

And on today's news brief, we are lucky enough to be joined by two of the letters signatories.

Eric Thurm, campaigns coordinator for the National Writers Union, a steering committee member

of the Freelance Solidarity Project and one of the co-authors and organizers behind the

recent contributors open letter to the New York Times.

We're also joined by Julia Carmel, reporter for the Los Angeles Times who formerly covered

Nightlife and Queer Culture for the New York Times.

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