New York Times Reporter Puts Her Thumb on the Scale in Child Gender-Transition Debate

A recent New York Times article by reporter Maggie Astor relies on biased experts and organizations — and the studies they produce — to make the case that concerns about gender-transition procedures for minors are overblown, whipped up by a handful of detransitioners who themselves are being used as political pawns by conservatives.

The article, titled “How a Few Stories of Regret Fuel the Push to Restrict Gender Transition Care,” doesn’t link to or explicitly cite any scientific research. Instead, Astor gestures toward a nebulous scientific consensus while making sweeping claims about the likelihood that an adolescent, once given puberty-blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgery, will eventually come to regret the decision.