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We Need to Talk About the New York Times with Tuck Woodstock

You're Wrong About

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Should Trans Kids Be Allowed to Be Trans?

Sally Kohn: The New York Times has a history of being slow to talk about queer and trans people. She says if the paper could just see transness as like a neutral quality, its coverage would completely shift. Kohn: They spent basically two years not talking about AIDS at all. And even when they started using gay, instead of saying openly gay, they said admitted homosexuals well into the 1990s.

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