At a time when transgender issues are regularly in the news, with a recent flood of bills being introduced in mostly Republican-led states that aim to restrict transgender rights, Ms. Chua said her own experience had led her to think more deeply about how the media covers stories like hers.“You have to be careful who your sources are,” Ms. Chua said. “There are organizations who purport to speak for one side or the other and they are not the right ones, even if they are the loudest ones.”While there are no statistics on how many American journalists identify …
