Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/02/2024A queer teenager from Nebraska, where lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care last year, responds to Pamela Paul. "I fear for my future. I fear for my friends and their future." 281891601
Brian Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 10/02/2024I’m glad the Times published this response. It’s gross that they published the piece it’s responding to and also gross that they’ll now pretend, when challenged, that publishing this letter shows that they’re balanced in their coverage. 1781
Celia Rabinowitz @runninglibrarian.bsky.social · 10/02/2024This young man has more integrity and smarts right now than Pamela Paul will even have. 020
latigo.bsky.social @latigo.bsky.social · 10/02/2024There is nothing worse that the regrets of a poor youthful indiscretion. Especially an unrecoverable one. Waiting until you are 18 is the only sensible way to approach such a permanent, life altering decision. 300
Miss Socrates @misssocrates.bsky.social · 11/02/2024Imagine thinking that a teenager knows better than the NYT. 100
King of Trains. @exoid.bsky.social · 10/02/2024Transphobes, at least the more moderate ones, have realized trans people cannot be eliminated since blue states will protect trans people until the state flips red, so they learned to make life in their states as hard as possible to kick trans people out into the blue states. 270
Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 10/02/2024Such a brave and thoughtful letter. And completely unacceptable that it needed to be written at all. 0130
🎃BOObarnbitch, post-menopausal woman supporter @ohiohawkeye.bsky.social · 10/02/2024… and people like Paul rejoice in that fear. They live for it. They’d bathe in it if they could. The hate drives them like some sort of fucking Sith Lord. 2110
Summer Seenson @seen4.bsky.social · 10/02/2024I hate that a child (a teen but still so young) had to take time out of their lives to write to the NYT and explain why their bad journalism is bad. Another failure of the NYT and those who promote anti-queer policies. 2862
colleen @luckycolleen.bsky.social · 10/02/2024I do not know why Pamela Paul has a column. She is awful. 160
Ultraviolet Catastrophe @southernviolet.northsky.social · 10/02/2024What a brave kid to write that. They could get swatted or doxxed for speaking the truth, and that's INFURIATING. Who the hell can do this to an adult let alone literal children?! Trans people aren't hurting anyone! They just want to live their lives! Why are we allowing this?! 🤬💔 030
Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 10/02/2024It’s the whole damn “abortion regret” silent no more propaganda all over again. You’d think the media would stop allowing this shit under the guise of “balance” after how it got used to take out abortion rights. 1250
Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 10/02/2024I grew up in Nebraska and left and am so proud of the people who are still there and fighting a hard fight. Please give them your support. 150
Heath @heathisme.bsky.social · 10/02/2024Very well said! The fact that the most powerful people in this country are rich cis people who are extremely out of touch with the real world will be the downfall of America. They get to enact dangerous laws against queer/trans people bc most Americans prefer willful ignorance and blind obedience! 000
TheOKTransKC @theoktranskc.bsky.social · 10/02/2024How I feel about it from Oklahoma. www.oklahoman.com/story/opinio...oklahoman.comIf the Oklahoma way is to look out for one another, why are politicians casting people out?Guest: 'I have served this country, this state, and still serve my fellow veterans, so please do not make me living my life a crime.' 1140
MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 10/02/2024I wrote one of my own, from a parent’s viewpoint, and surprisingly they published it. Of course they insisted on changing my comment chastising the NYT for their “drumbeat of detransition stories” - assigning that to the less culpable, broader “media”. 514215
Carrie @cooler-by-the-lake.bsky.social · 10/02/2024Friendly reminder for this thread of the 1st rule of Bluesky: block the trolls, don’t engage 0200
NotGoingBack @nooneletgo.bsky.social · 10/02/2024Thanks for sharing. I don't often look at that part of the NYTimes site. That's really good. 000
Intellectual Explorer @driftingthrough.bsky.social · 11/02/2024Cruelty is the point. Sanctimonious cruelty. 000
AJL ⛄ @guiltypanacea.bsky.social · 10/02/2024Just replace the whole editorial board with this person. 030
Joe Slater @joeinaustralia.bsky.social · 11/02/2024What an extraordinarily clearly written and argued letter, particularly for one written by a teenager. The paper should commission them to write columns, and consign Paul's mushy, cotton-headed concern trolling pieces to the circular file. 020
Caring Uncle Minpict @cabinfever.bsky.social · 10/02/2024I'm begging the NYT to drop the anti-trans garbage and become weirdly obsessed with knee replacements instead. 0140
