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Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
Our dominant media’s celebration of transgender people must inevitably include the distorted sounds of our tastemakers becoming transfixed by trans fiction.
Exhibit A is a new novel titled “Detransition, Baby” by trans woman Torrey Peters. It’s published by One World, an imprint of Random House. “The mission of ONE WORLD,” its website says, “is to provide a home for authors … who seek to challenge the status quo, subvert dominant narratives, and give us new language to understand our past, present, and future.”