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It’s hard to think of anything changing more posthaste in our society right now than our comprehension of gender. There’s an explosion of young people identifying as gender nonconforming in some way or another, and others are coming out as transsexual or nonbinary throughout their lives, from childhood to old age. But this sea change has brought with it an huge amount of confusion and resistance. As of July, lawmakers in 21 states had introduced bills that focus on restricting gender-affirming medical care for genderqueer youth, such as hormone blockers, and 29 states had introduced bills banning transgender youth from sports. But we also grasp that the degree of support a young person receives when coming out — or doesn’t — can have profound consequences for their mental health.
How should we process and understand this moment in gender? Kathryn Bond Stockton is a distinguished professor of English focusing on gender studies at the University of Utah and the author of the book “Gender(s).” She is incredibly skilled at explaining the fundamentals — and complexities — of what gender means and how people, including Stockton herself, have wrestled with it. In this conversation, w
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It would be very easy to hate Ezra Klein. He’s only 38, and already has been a pioneering political blogger, a pioneering explanatory correspondent for the Washington Post, the founder of Vox.com, the author of the best-selling book Why We’re Polarized, and now a marquis podcaster and columnist for the New York Times.
The amount of nice fortune that’s come his way is staggering. Not just journalistic and political good fortune, but personal good fortune. His wife, the journalist Annie Lowrey, is a successful reporter with a national profile. Presumably their two kids, whose names are presumably Leo and Daisy, are good looking and brilliant. He’s even rather statuesque . It’s hard for me to believe this, but the internet says he’s 6’2” (it seems plausible in this photo of him). As journalist Matt Welch wrote of him, in a 2012 profile: “He’s impossibly young, infuriatingly accomplished, and impressively wonky. In a town complete of journalistic flop sweat, he glides instead of glistens, handsome enough to make the ladies change their heads, and affable enough that their boyfriends compete for his attentions, too.”
Klein is an American prince, in other words, and
Today we're bringing you an episode from our friends at The Argument about Florida's “Don't Say Gay” bill and the broader wave of anti-L.G.B.T.Q. legislation, spurred by the political right, that is spreading across the country. According to the Human Rights Campaign, this year alone, more than 300 anti-L.G.B.T.Q. bills have been introduced in state legislatures.
Why has this issue become a major focus of the Republican Party? And how is the way world treats individuals who name as L.G.B.T.Q. changing? Jane Coaston speaks to her Times Opinion colleagues Ross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg about these questions and brings a deeply personal perspective to the table.
Mentioned:
“How to Make Sense of the New L.G.B.T.Q. Tradition War” by Ross Douthat in The New York Times
“Gender Unicorn” from Transgender Student Educational Resources
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can locate Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-rec An addendum to this piece was posted on Sunday, March 16. On Tuesday, former Washington Post pundit (and Prospect alum) Ezra Klein sent a shock wave through the lgbtq+ community by announcing he had hired gay anti-gay apologist Brandon Ambrosino to join him at Vox Media, the much-hyped digital venture that's aiming to remake journalism for the Internet age. Liberal watchdog group Media Matters was the first to sound the alarm, but within a day, gay-rights supporters-from Mark Stern at Slate to John Aravosis at AmericaBlog-had joined the chorus of voices asking Klein: What were you thinking? The problem with hiring Ambrosino is not that Klein isn't entitled to take someone on board whose views the gay group finds distasteful. It's that Ambrosino's quick rise to notoriety-and now, his ticket aboard the profession's hottest new upstart-is an protest lesson in the way new media equates click-bait contrarianism with serious mind and gives hacks a platform in the label of ideological balance. Ambrosino, who enrolled in Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in 2003,* has earned his call as a journalist-and his coveted spot at Vox Media-by bein .Ezra Klein's Queer New Hire