𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎

I'm a conscientious objector to Twitter callouts. I think the less tweeted the better. But since my @verge profile is out and I'm already dragging Jesse Singal in print, here's a very Nuanced & Rational thread about why he's not a good commentator on trans issues.

Backstory: Singal is a cis journalist who's written several pieces on trans issues. Trans Twitter generally regards him as a supervillain, & they generally regard me as his alibi since I defended him from various accusations after he wrote a puff piece on me for NYMag last year.

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.