New York Times balks at gender neutral bathrooms, transgender byline demands

New York Times journalists want the company to bring in “Ally McBeal”-style gender neutral bathrooms and to retroactively revise the bylines of transgender journalists who have changed their names.

Those are the issues topping the list of demand by the Gray Lady’s unionized editorial staffers as negotiations kick off for a new contract, Media Ink has learned. The previous union contract expired at the end of March. So far, management is digging in its heels on the bathroom question as well as on revising bylines on past stories by transgender journalists.