The opinion piece is headlined “The Strange Report Fueling the War on Trans Kids.” I don’t know if author Lydia Polgreen selected the headline but it certainly matches the tone and language of the piece. This is an attempt to dismiss the conclusions of the Cass Review by an opinion journalist who is consistently one of the most progressive voices at the Times. For those not familiar with Polgreen, she’s the former editor of HuffPost. Here’s how Wikipedia describes her personal life:
In November 2017, Polgreen was nominated to Out magazine’s “OUT100” for 2017 in recognition of her work and visibility. Rejecting rigid binaries, she identifies as both Black and mixed race; as both American and African; as a woman, though her masculine gender expression often leads people to assume she is a man; and as a lesbian, though she has also had heterosexual romantic relationships.
In any case,…
