👀🚨SPOTTED on @nytimes: did you see our very own @imara_jones_ in the print and digital version today? ✨🏳️‍⚧️📲Here is the original letter to the editor that she submitted (what is printed may be slightly different): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/opinion/letters/transgender-surgery.html Text published on nytimes.com: Re “Breast Removal Surgery on Rise for Trans Teens” (front page, Sept. 26): As three out of five Americans say they don’t know a trans person, your reporting contributes much-needed understanding of trans youth and the barriers they face in receiving gender-affirming medical care. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association and the Endocrine Society all assert that health care for trans kids, done in the right way at the right time, is safe. Readers should be aware that efforts by Republican elected officials to ban such health care are not random; they are methodical, intentional and the result of a well-oiled extremist effort to exploit trans lives in the creation of a potent political wedge. TransLash Media’s exposé on the anti-trans hate machine draws back the curtain on the dark money, right-wing organizations and far-right ideology driving the anti-trans backlash in the U.S. It’s time to stop cynically using trans youth as a divisive issue for political gain and to recognize their right to bodily autonomy. Trans youth can be trusted. Those who would deny them care cannot. Imara Jones Brooklyn The writer is founder and C.E.O. of TransLash Media.