Close to 200 New York Times contributors have published an open letter criticizing the Times’s recent coverage of stories involving transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people, in particular concerning medical issues. The letter says Republican lawmakers have cited the Times’s coverage to justify bans on gender-affirming care for youth. In response, the top editor of The New York Times on Thursday defended the paper’s coverage of trans issues, warning journalists that such public criticism will “not be tolerated.”