The New York Times decided to take a drunken ramble through my research area. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to write a whole thing today, merely to say that it’s very easy to praise what you don’t understand and that’s exactly what the Times does here.
Here are a few of the many, many, many things I’ve written about questioning your gender online:
Online trans communities: lifeline or quicksand?
Good that you have responded it so quickly. And just like the previous NYT article, the comments from the readers (see Readers Picks) have been brutal, honest, and raw. Once again, an NYT article is getting brutally ratioed by the readers. And these are readers of the NY Times, for goodness sake!
For One Group of Teenagers, Social Media Seems a Clear Net Benefit
It seems to me like yet another way these kids are seen as somehow exempt from everything known about human adolescent development. Even the harms of social media can’t touch them.