And even when discussing the trend, they don’t include diverse voices, noted Ari Drennen of left-leaning media-watchdog nonprofit Media Matters. “Audiences don’t get to see trans people as experts, even as human,” she told me; only rarely do trans writers get a platform in major publications. “You are falling for a far-right harassment campaign that is being laundered by the mainstream media,” said Collins, who covers “the dystopia beat,” focusing on the spread of disinformation in the hell holes of social media.