Nearly 1,000 contributors protest New York Times’ coverage of trans people

The letter - also signed by thousands of subscribers - says the paper's reporting has been used in support of anti-trans legislation

Nearly 1,000 New York Times contributors, in addition to tens of thousands of subscribers and readers of the Times, signed an open letter on Wednesday to the paper's standards editor condemning the publication's coverage of transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming people.

A second letter organized by the nonprofit Glaad (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) on Wednesday spoke against what it called irresponsible, biased coverage of transgender people" in the Times.