Guardian article

It was their awful reporting of the Cologne NYE attacks in 2015 which turned me away from the Guardian. It hasn't got any better.

Makes me incredibly sad. And angry. The Graun was the only mainstream paper that reported the whole of political reality, has done amazing investigative reporting vs the Torygraph or Times and I want to support it

I have always been a Guardian reader, but it hasn't been in the business of reporting political reality for a long time. Remember "cast your vote enthusiastically for the LibDems" in 2010? I now find the Telegraph is eye-openingly interesting. Of course I don't agree with some of their columnists, but I am interested in reading views I don't agree with (or don't initially think I agree with).

I do find myself able to trust their straight news reporting in a way that is simply impossible with the Guardian. Wi Spa?

Investigative journalism? It was the Daily Mail who stuck with the Stephen Lawrence story.

I wouldn’t even blame The Graun playing both sides by, for example, reporting on a study that suggested transitioning might have some psychosocial benefits for some adult individuals. And several years ago it included two pieces on adult detransitioners 9one male, one female) who detransitioned some 10/15 years later with huge regret. But this piece? Incredible.

I started skimming this last night, and then just deleted the Guardian app instead. I'm looking forward to being less annoyed by my phone in the coming weeks.

The Guardian, the paper of the quality left.

Never saw a war it did not like.

Desperatly trying to claw back the young tru belivers in the US after a couple of balanced articles in the weekend edition?
Is the Gruan trying to play both sides.

The Guardian absolutely refused to publish the expenses scandal and suppressed reporting the Rotherham child abuse. Both issues I'd expected an ethical left wing paper to deal with. So, I take with a pinch of salt their investigative reporting credentials.

To clarify, I kind of get the parent.. nothing like a poacher turned gamekeeper to express a repeated and strident need for constant external validation to suppress the inner doubts. This is a common phenomenon.

It’s the decision of a major UK newspaper and supposedly intelligent and cynical journalists that I don’t get. To be so utterly lacking in balance and judgement as to place this article on its front page of the digital edition.

This is shocking. Both the “parenting” and the journalism.

That poor child.

I saw this article. Prominently placed for the digital edition and wondered who made that decision. Is it Katherine Viner who would decide to present a one-sided opinion piece as news?

After Suzanne Moore left and a number of articles I stopped my financial support and adopted a watchful waiting attitude. Recently I’d started to feel that perhaps there was, at least, some balance creeping back in the perspectives. Now, I think this article is the proverbial straw.

Makes me incredibly sad. And angry. The Graun was the only mainstream paper that reported the whole of political reality, has done amazing investigative reporting vs the Torygraph or Times and I want to support it.

But this article has the potential to harm so many children and convince confused parents to doubt their instincts. I just really do not get it. Just why?

Using your child to write articles. With pictures too. What teenager would be happy with that. It’s abuse of power if you ask me.

This smacks of the desire to bring people in to the cult. What she has allowed to happen to her child is beyond words, but others doing the same will be validating. Smacks of Susie Green.

What an extraordinarily shallow article. It reads almost like a puff piece. No exploration, no discussion, no wider context, no journalism. No Debate.

Writer is based in Australia I think.

Is this in the UK? Giving a child a mastectomy?

I saw this on Facebook - there were quite a lot of shocked comments from people.

Oh look, the Guardian with a pro trans article. Who would have thought it?

And T at 16. I hope Connor is ok.