Evan Urquhart

Interesting to read that the author was assigned this idea and struggled to come up with a way to justify it.https://twitter.com/e_urq/status/1364935376708784129 …

That's an unfair reading. The thread clearly says that I struggled with the fertility aspect, which targets trans men far more harshly than trans women, but felt a little outside the scope of the general case I was asked to make.

Nothing about the specific case of trans men being targets for eugenics like fertility measures even more strongly weakens the general case.

In the end I decided to write a second piece about the specific ways trans men's fertility is coerced and our bodies are treated like we're no more than birthing sows, which is to come. I think you'll find it does not weaken the essay I've already written in any way.

Just going by what you said: "my editor wanted an unpacking of how anti-trans efforts are a form of eugenics and I'm really struggling with that". As you would, because it's daft. Preventing male athletes from competing against female athletes isn't eugenics, it's fairness.

If you're going to read a different meaning into my words when I went on to very clearly explain what I meant by "struggling with that" I can't stop you, but I can say you're being disingenuous to the extreme.

You were assigned the idea (or the headline, was it, did that come first?) by an editor, and were days late in writing it, because, as you said, you struggled to write it. What I said was accurate.

I'm not surprised that the word disingenuous is on your mind, because that's the perfect description for the article. You know in your heart how daft that comparison is, but your editor wanted it out there for tactical reasons.