New York Times Staffer 'Spat Upon' By Angry Assailant Over Paper's 'Attempts To Eliminate Trans People'
March 3 2023, Published 6:30 p.m. ET
A writer for the New York Times was āspat uponā last month by an activist upset about the popular newspaperās alleged attempts to āeliminate trans people,ā Breaking Celebrity News has learned.
The shocking confrontation reportedly took place on February 19 when the unnamed Times reporter was approached in her own neighborhood by an angry trans activist.
āOur employee was recognized in public,ā a spokesperson for the Times told the Washington Post on Thursday. āThe person said something about āattempts to eliminate trans peopleā and then spat on the employee.ā
The purported assault against the Times writer came as the outlet continues to face criticism from the trans community for ādevoting inkā to ātransphobicā voices.
During the outletās annual āState of the Timesā event on Thursday, keynote speaker and New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger defended its coverage of transgender issues.
Sulzberger specifically defended Times writer Emily Bazelon for her controversial 2022 feature that focused on divisions within the medical community connected to gender transition therapies for patients younger than 18.
Although Bazelon was accused of promoting āanti-trans agendaā via her article, Sulzberger commended the writerās article because it āempathetically examined the debate within the medical community over treatment for trans adolescents.ā
āI want to linger for a moment on Emily,ā the Times publisher said Thursday, āone of the best magazine writers alive and someone who received a great deal of unfair criticism for the piece I just mentioned.ā
Sulzberger then rejected allegations that the Times was promoting an āanti-trans agendaā and admitted the paper takes the recent criticism from the trans community seriously.
āWe always take criticism seriously, never more so than when our coverage is accused of misrepresenting a marginalized group,ā he said. āIn this case, our editors have listened to concerns with open minds and looked hard at whether our coverage missed the mark.ā
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Sulzberger then condemned the recent ānonstop attacksā against the paper and its staffers, as well as āmonths of threats and harassmentā aimed towards the Gray Ladyās writers.
āWe even had a colleague involved in this coverage confronted in her neighborhood last weekend and spat on,ā Sulzberger said, confirming one of his writers was assaulted on February 19.
