Northwestern newspaper uses DEI leaders, transgender guide to edit opinion pieces | The College Fix

As part of the changes, the newspaper “elevated the role of our Diversity & Inclusion Chairs to include editing stories consistently, including opinion pieces.” - Samantha Swenson - Liberty University

These DEI student leaders will use, among other things, a transgender resource to make their edits...

• The Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a resource developed by transgender activists for journalists “to provide a foundation for covering trans people with accuracy and nuance” and address “many common language and reporting difficulties,” according to its website.

For example, the guide tells journalists to avoid using the terms “biological male” and “biological female” because they are “often used by anti-trans groups to invoke a person’s assigned sex at birth as their ‘real’ gender, in contrast to their gender identity.”...