A trans athlete’s guide to media coverage of trans athletes

Rook Campbell (he/him, they/them) is a swimmer and a trans guy. He wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times about what the media get wrong when covering transgender athletes in the news.

Oct. 7, 2021 6 AM PT

Read Rook Campbell’s op-ed here.

Maggie Beidelman is a former senior video director for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2019, Beidelman helped launch AJ+, the digital media channel of Al Jazeera Media Network, where she produced the award-winning series “Untold America.” Beidelman has her master’s in documentary film from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

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