• NYT hired an NSA|Military guy to be their PR person (!?) • when NTY *has* run pro-trans material, they've headlined it with s/thing so banal and colorless that it encourages people to 'move right along' and overlook the column. E.g. when Jamelle Bouie's column was changed from "The Relentless Attack on Trans People Is an Attack on All of Us" to "There Is No Dignity in This Kind of America" • delicious allure of simultaneously feeling morally righteous [and persecuted for it] while having all the power • on NYY editorial control