Evan Urquhart

I think my record of scupulously ethical, well researched, and factual journalism speaks for itself, Sarah. Would you believe I've never once had a source complain about being misquoted or treated unfairly in my reporting thus far? It's true!

Not really, I mean, sometimes people have to speak to skeptical journalists if they want their side of a story to be told. Being skeptical of a source surely can't disqualify me. Unless you're saying they don't trust me because I'm trans?

I’d say it’s more to do with the posts in this tweet. Do these tweets still reflect your views of people who have declined to speak to you?https://twitter.com/Exacerbati/status/1347721696891977730 …

Surely you'll appreciate that I've come under harsher criticism from the same community I believe words like "delusional" have even been used? And yet, I'd gladly listen to their point of view. Why wouldn't I expect that they would be equally willing to engage with me?

My view is a professional journalist is someone who can express themselves in ways that don’t come close to mocking, belittling & dismissing the views/experience of others, even if there’s strong disagreement on key issues. Your posts don’t reflect that. If you had posted/

Similarly about something as personal as this, that I’d lived through, I wouldn’t speak to you either. Not because you had me ‘bang to rights’ but because I couldn’t trust that you were capable of writing without that bias tainting & misrepresenting my words. I may well be /