Introducing the 2026 Trans News Tracking Project from Assigned Media.

The New York Times published a story covering the death of trans athlete, Lia Smith, but takes no responsibility for the ways their coverage of trans issues has fed the moral panic that caused it.

Bred on social media platforms and legitimized by mainstream outlets, the language of contempt for fellow human beings endangers us all. Trans people have been the early targets.

Disagreeing with Donald Trump doesn’t make you a good person, especially when you’re still a bigoted monster.

In 2024, the NYT released a hit piece against a research paper that supported the use of puberty blockers. One year later, the very same researcher has found even more evidence supporting their use. Assigned Media takes a look at the results of this most recent study.

The elite press sees itself as a ruling class, providing cover for the powerful and treating the vulnerable as prey. 

It’s no coincidence that historic assaults on trans and queer people’s rights have been accompanied by the mainstream media’s widespread dismissal of LGBTQ+ journalists and the elimination of beats devoted to our lives.

A pipeline of pseudoscience funded by powerful right-wing hate groups has undermined medical truths with the help of big media.

Former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan published an opinion piece blaming trans people for attacks on the trans community.

Meanwhile, other mainstream media newsrooms treated the U.S. v. Skrmetti case as an opportunity to center coverage around the expected result.

Leading Off: A reckless exhortation. A former friend dismayed. And an activist newspaper aligned with a right-wing group. The week’s top story lines.

Something must be wrong, they keep suggesting, but they can’t tell us what it is. And they didn’t uplift the stories of the trans youths whose care is under threat.

Leading Off: Two big bills promoting bigotry reach the governor. Oregon turns back a sports ban. And trans people speak out against the Times. The week’s top story lines.

The mom of a trans girl pleaded with a New York Times producer not to use audio captured in a vulnerable moment. Against her will, the company is slated to use the clip for its new podcast.

Leading Off: A first look at Utah's evidence review. The Times is pressed on bias. Democrats and Republicans say trans people face bigotry. The top story lines as the week begins.

The lawyer, Bill Bock, is also prominently affiliated with a conservative Christian group that seeks “reformation of nations.”

Insiders say Pamela Paul is soon to be out of the New York Times’ Opinion section… so let’s talk about all of the awful stuff she wrote about trans people!

Billie Sweeney is a trans journalist who was an editor for the New York Times until last year. Here, she recalls her losing battle for the soul of the paper of record.

After attacks on the trans community in the wake of the election, Riki Wilchins takes a look at the actual data.

The shift, which took place under pressure from the New York Times, represents a crumbling of one of the last bulwarks of protection for the tiny number of families whose children need such care.