Evan Urquhart

I'm very happy to hear that Matt will keep his job, and did not in fact mean to imply that he was about to lose it. Now what about all the other, less established journalists who observed this exchange?  Do you honestly not think that this will have a chilling effect on them?

How about the less established journalists Jesse SIngal insinuated lack competence bc we're trans? Jesse's a signatory, remember? The guy who thinks I'm not qualified to write the sort of pieces he writes bc I'm transgender? Where's your free speech defense of people like me?

My name is Evan Urquhart. I've written about the science of trans issues including trans youth, and Jesse explicitly said trans journalists aren't qualified. Where's the concern about free speech over Jesse's sliming all trans people behind our backs to elites in the profession?

When is your sanctimony about free speech and illiberalism going to reckon with the people like me, who may never climb another a rung on the ladder because of elite, connected people like Jesse telling editors that our gender identity is disqualifying?

wow that sounds like an insanely bigoted thing to say -- can you point me to where i said it?

Full quote is too long for twitter. A fair paraphrase would be: Transgender people are subject to groupthink. They're the right people to hire to talk about how hard it is not to be able to go into bathrooms but not to write about the science like [I, Jesse Singal] do.

I said that all groups are susceptible to groupthink and that on the specific question of desistance, there was some of it in the trans community. In the same paragraph, if memory serves, I gave an example of a similar issue with my own group, American Jews. Of course American