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If you're coming to this from Singal's side of the story you'll have heard that he's simply done his journalistic duty, bringing rational freespeechy nuance to difficult & complex issues surrounding trans children, for which he's been ruthlessly defamed by transsexual maniacs.
Let's concede that many of the typical accusations are unsubstantiated or hyperbolic: that he's a TERF, a chaser, an egg, that he "wants trans people dead," that he's a pulsating hive of pure malevolence—you know, Twitter-speak for "he kinda fucked up."
The hyperbole of these accusations kept me in the dark about Singal longer than I should have been. In fact I don't feel I need to rescind anything I previously said about him. I said he's not a TERF (someone who cloaks transphobia in radical feminism). Well he's not.
I do wish there were more of a commitment around here to being precise with callouts, to limiting accusations to what is strictly speaking true, instead of this raw expressionism. It's a distraction from what is *demonstrably* wrong with Singal. So here's the real T.
This is messy so strap in. [cw transphobia] Singal was inspired to begin his career as a cis commentator on trans people when he read cis journalist Alice Dreger's book "Galileo's Middle Finger," a defense of Blanchardism (a defamatory quack theory of MtF transsexuality).
I feel like this tweet was an unnecessary shot. He's more than "kinda fucked up" and a lot of what you mention is people trying to make sense of his misinformation campaign about trans kids as well as his outright hostility to trans women who disagree with him.
This is one tweet in this otherwise good thread that I thought undersold Singal's fuckery. Lots of what has been said about him is terrible but not hyperbolic at all.
And the way he brought up Julia Serano in an article about trans kids and linked to an article she wrote about dating.
what’s an egg?
Someone who's trans but hasn't fully realized it yet.
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