Something I’m grappling with live with you all here, which I think might be the lesson I take from it:

We teach folks to write with their audience in mind, but maybe we should also make a habit of thinking about who is *not* in your intended audience. If someone already believes trans people are dangerous, and they get sent this— if they do not read beyond the lead or even your headline— what effect might your work have on them? What might it reinforce within them?

In the body, the author describes having a hard conversation with their editor about the story, apparently focused on whether to publish at all, and it really has me wishing they’d talked about the implementation a little more.

They also describe the wariness of their sources, which in my opinion is entirely justified, and I wonder how they feel about that opening now.