I have to jump in and thank you both (you and IAMRU2) for the best, most thoughtful, most informative and genuine and kind and heartfelt and helpful exchange on this site I have read in probably over a year. I have been negotiating a few of the same questions as you have, though from a slightly different perspective,…

Singal likely agrees with transgender activists in every domain save one: How to approach children who identify with a gender that is not the gender they are assigned at birth. He points out, quite fairly in my opinion, that there are a substantial number of youths who desist. He got into this issue when he…

Sure, keep beating that drum as Trump nominates another right wing fascist who will roll back all of the protections currently in the law. Kennedy is leaving the court... start worrying about “safe spaces” in the real world, not in the blogophere and op-eds of the NYT or pages of the NY/Atlantic/Mother Jones....

Care to elaborate?

Jezebel’s writers regularly claim to be journalists. You’re right though, Harron seems to have mistaken this for LiveJournal.

As a european outsider I feel like it’s partially American’s purity culture that they’re trying to escape? I think America is a lot stricter and old fashioned when it comes to how girls get treated and portrayed. Like the whole vetting/intimidating boyfriends thing comes to mind, from the outside I can’t even tell if…

When reading the original article, my thoughts were somewhat along the same line as the author’s: “Focusing on the minority of people who formerly identified as trans and then de-transitioned, despite the fact that they make up a minority of patients by the article’s own admission, without contextualizing their…

This article is how not to be a journalist. Claim you want an answer, start the conversation out with the person that can give it to you like a petulant child, quote yourself in the article like you’re some authority figure. Way to go, champ.

May we assume that “What’s your fucking deal?” was not your first outreach? Why not present an earlier attempt - presuming you first contacted him and Atlantic with something like, “I am doing a piece on your various articles on trans issues. Can we sit down for an interview?” - which, perhaps went ignored, thus the…