Regarding A Recent Atlantic Monthly Story On TransYouth...

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Regarding A Recent Atlantic Monthly Story On TransYouth...

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Autumn Sandeen
10/18/2008

Last Wednesday afternoon, the Atlantic Monthly posted a story online by reporter Hanna Rosin entitledA Boy's Life. The article horribly presents transyouth and their families -- everything from the headline getting the child they focused on wrong (which is in conflict with the Associated Press Stylebook -- the "Bible" of journalism standards) to how Kim Pearson the Executive Director of TransYouth Family Allies (TYFA) believes that the Atlantic betrayed the trust of the families that talked to their reporter. When I asked for a comment from Kim about the article, she told me:

[Hanna Rosin] focused on the most vulnerable family she could have focused on, creating the illusion that this family was representative of all of the families -- and that's just not true. We trusted her, and we felt betrayed.