How the New York Times Failed America.
Two damning accounts of the trans lobby only highlight how cowardly the New York Times has been up to now in the face of the biggest medical scandal of our time.
Yesterday’s ‘Guest Essay’ in the New York Times by gay rights icon Andrew Sullivan dismantled the history of modern LGBTQ+ activism as invented and approved by ….the LGBTQ+ lobby.
For the first time the paper’s over eleven million subscribers heard from the Times a gay equivalent of Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin. No, the trans agenda is not the natural successor to the campaign for gay marriage. No, the LGBTQ+ lobby isn’t a social justice fount of wisdom. It’s a politically toxic personality cult.
As for ‘sex changes for children’ they aren’t just insane. They are rooted in homophobia. Who knew? Anyone who has been reading the British press for the last five or six years perhaps?
Sullivan’s essay follows hot on the heels of a shocking account of the trans lobby’s defence of so-called “gender affirming healthcare” at the US Supreme Court. Spoiler alert: the case did not go well for those who favour sterilising children.
Does this mean liberal America has finally woken up from its long gender identity fever-dream? Perhaps. Though this is not the first time the New York Times has raised doubts about the official trans narrative including “gender affirming healthcare for children”.
Yet ….every time it plucked up the courage in the past the Times ended up pulling its punches, equivocating in ways it would never have done about any other medical scandal involving thousands of children. In its zig-zagging, its hesitation and its refusal to be fully honest, the Times failed both its readers and America.
What explains this cowardice? This is the story of how the pursuit of commercial success led to one of the most respected media brands in the world abandoning its mission.
It would only slowly dawn on the paper’s publisher if he was ever to salvage his paper’s reputation he would first have to relocate his moral compass.
