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yeah they don't even say "man" they say "person."

Headlines need bylines.

Did this headline originally say "trans man," then "man," and ultimately just "person"? Am I interpreting this correctly? Or is that second image with the word "trans" crossed out indicating something else?

Seriously though this is really fucked up that not only did they remove a core fact about the victim, they changed the article to read "person", it seems almost dehumanising.

I HATE IT HERE GRANDPA

they moved it to the subhead/summary/whatever its called. The remains of Sam Nordquist, 24, a transgender man, were found after he had been reported missing. The district attorney in Ontario County, N.Y., called the circumstances surrounding the death “beyond depraved.”

Already posted about this! I was outraged at their use of 'person'. Just disgusting.

They established it wasn’t a hate crime after like 2/3 days of investigating….like what???

It's sad to see a 'serious' newspaper roll over like this.

Ugh. 🤮

This is a terrifying trend....

Fuck the NY Times, they are dead to me

They police determined it wasn't a hate crime. The perpetrators were all friends, also LGBQ+.

I can't share this because I don't want to traumatize people but I wish I could personally shove it down the throat of about 200 million cis people

Jeez, they couldn't even just leave it as "man" they had to change it to "person" to accommodate those who would argue if he was actually a man or not.

this is disgusting. dehumanizing trans people in the press by stripping away their identities is fucking low, and they should be ashamed.

Sorry, angry now.

Both the perps and victim were trans. Of course they report victims as trans. There have been many headlines that say "woman arrested for raping/killing etc", when it's clearly a trans identified man. Your confirmation bias is showing.

Hell, even if they AREN’T trans, they still like to use Trans people as their boogeyman scapegoat

I am so angry at this Eva

Here is the current version of article

More than a month... I hadn't heard that part. JFC

There is no genocide.

Hate crime or not, the removal matters because living on the margins of society is dangerous—even if they weren’t targeted for being trans. Removing “trans” from a NYT headline drops trans people from the conversation and makes it harder for others to fully understand their experience.

Shameful obedience to Trump and his fascist friends. This is how it starts - with the media.

😡😔 💙👊

This is actually so scary

Ahem "There is only 2 genders because that is all we are allowing ourselves to be capable of understanding. Anything other than that is far beyond what we want to believe we should understand, therefore, we refuse to acknowledge that they exist."

alright

That poor guy oh my GOSH?!?!? 😱😖💔

Because then it wasn’t a “hate crime” and “just” a crime.

This is Orwellian bullshit.

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I’m surprised that TX would do better than NY on this, but this Texas station still has the original headline and says transgender man and he. It’s far enough down I had to search for the article though. It’s from the @apnews.com. www.kbtx.com/2025/02/16/t...

Honest question: I always thought trans people DON‘T want to be treated differently than Cis folks, in the line of „trans men are men“. So I would need guidance when to say „trans man“ and when to just say „man“.

Thanks for both speaking up and letting us know what they said!

(2 of 3) ... b/c violence not classified as hate crime, they discussed headline could give impression of the motive. "It was later adjusted to 'person' to be more precise, but we kept term in the summary and in the story." Their Standards Assistant also said that current reporting seems to...

UPDATE 2/19: Heard back from editorial board. They state they had some discussions on Sat. eve when story was published about headline, and decided to move 'transgendered man" to the summary bc "we did not know that the gender issue was connected to crimes alleged." Also state that...

... "A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 16, 2025, Section A, Page 25 of the New York edition with the headline: 5 Arrested in Death of Man Who Police Say Was Tortured for a Month. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe"

... moving the word "trans" to the sub-head as being tantamount to burying the lead, and thereby also burying the story. If I hear anything, I will post that update. ...

UPDATE: This is the only correction note on the NYT article page. So I sent a follow up question directly to the writer credited on this article. Not that he writes the headlines, per se. But he might have some insight. I did directly ask him about...

Online there are multiple versions of headlines shown to different people with small changes like this (through A/B delivery). The print headline is usually the one that matters the most for the historical record because it's physical media and will be archived and preserved as the only version.

"... Because of the volume of email we receive, we cannot respond individually to every query."

Fuck me dead Is this true ? And I reading the perpetrators were lgbtq ? Stop the world I wanna get off

So used to NYT diminishing harms in headlines that I misread it as "no more than a month" and fire erupted from my eyeholes.

NYT is complicit in the coup.

Compliance with evil is more evil than the act. #resist we need a template complaint letter, organize a protest, and take all your cash out the banks on Friday the 28th. And observe the sacred rights of organized fucked.

hard for me to believe that people still subscribe to this shitrag help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/art...

I am so sorry. Bluesky friends know you exist. Stay here with us

Meanwhile, him being black never made it in the title to begin with :((

How despicable to change the headline. The person was tortured in depraved ways and they want to take the hate crime out of it by changing the wording.

Trans men continue to be erased, even in death… :( our history is full of revisions like this

I was wondering what was up with 'person'!

Good fucking lord, I want to go drown in a lake.

"A Killable Being Was Killed"

My nb kid and I are spending time weekly working on self defense. It's so scary.

image ID, cont.: the quote post, from @caulimovirus.bsky.social, shows a screenshot of the headline on the NYT website that now reads, “person killed in new york was tortured for more than a month, police say,” captioned, “now it just says ‘person’” in both posts, the images have alt text. end ID

Funny, because the NY times stopped existing to me as anything more than a glorified tabloid this side of the daily mail that cranks out more bull than a serially pregnant cow

to be so reduced even in the acknowledgement of the outrageous horror surrounding your death, because doing so might evoke a brief feeling of sympathy in a reader

This is also likely an issue of algorithms. Twitter gets a lot of clicks, but mentioning “trans” can cause the algorithm to throttle the post.

It also fails to identify it as a hate crime

I saw the "person" headline & clicked because I thought it was a new case with (presumably) an unidentified victim. Once I started to read, it was very obvious what had happened to the headline. It's another form of violence.

The NYT is a corporate rag, of course they don't care about trans people.

Thats a problem

This is why we CIS allies need to speak loudly and defend our LGBTQIA family. We must stand up.

In my world you certainly do exist and worthy of respect!

Controlling the narrative!

Thanks for thinking of accessibility and posting with alt text! You rule

The sense of relief emanating from the upper class is so tangible. They’re so happy to stop acknowledging that people unlike them matter, if they even exist at all, that gosh darn it they might just start using slurs again to celebrate.

Its so frustrating that Im so powerless to stop it, just gonna help those I know as much as I can

oh my god

smdh!

A horrible thing to happen to anyone. 5 people charged. It was to be an affair of the heart, a chance for sincere love. That was fake, and they killed him over a long period of time. Their attorney says it wasn't a hate crime... They should all burn. It happened in my region of NY State. Sad.

Say his name.

Thank you for sharing this disturbing turn of censorship.

Thank you for pointing this out. The whole coverage seemed very off.

I’m saying that I cannot tell when it is discrimination to mention that someone is trans, and when it is respectful. Like this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=tQBy...

It's not just the removal of "trans" it's also the switch from "man" to "person". Intentionally avoiding the use of gender in cases where it's a _specific_ person with a known identity is a sneaky way to dehumanize them.

Their being trans was a factor in the murder, apparently, and we're living in a time of increased hatred and persecution of trans people, so it's an important and relevant point to include in the headline. To paraphrase... "person murdered, that's not news. Trans man murdered, now that's news".

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That is... remarkably bad

No. Not in the least. They know the implications of this change, and if they don't know, they're unqualified to make editorial judgements.

How vividly I remember that one.

I'm a cis, white male. I swear to you I will lay down my life to protect the trans community. I mean that sincerely.

bsky.app/profile/fsoc...

Just to say it: Trans Rights are Human Rights

Establishment media are cowards

Oh that pisses me off

Just because they’re not being rounded up and killed doesn’t mean they’re not being put in danger

Why the racist Israelis presume to use the word anti-semite.

This is the same tactic by corporations after the original rights holder passes away since they are the ones who care about their IPs, once they pass, it’s free reign by corporations.

Language matters. When we let these "small things" slide, the results are disastrous. This is a way of censoring identity and is indirectly permissive of violence against us. Thank you for the post and spreading awareness. We are stronger together 🩷🤍🩵

What are you going to do about it?

surprised they included 'person' tbh

As a cis person I am very sorry this shit happening to trans ppl Why is it so hard to understand that trans ppl are ppl and that their rights are human rights It pisses me off

No alt text, seriously?

The fact they changed the headline is just so sickening.

NYT is no longer a viable source of news. Their legacy news and propaganda abounds. I’m sorry falls short but I am.

Symbolic erasure is the prelude to physical erasure.

And you are still silent about Natives.