I’m familiar with the studies you’re talking about—I did my research before starting my child on Lupron as well as consulting with our physician. They’re not convincing. Again, when there’s an active agenda to promote fear, uncertainty and doubt among parents by people who think that children aren’t able to make an…

“Especially if that requires serious medical intervention with potentially life long implications”

And invective is, in this instance, all Singal deserves.

Allow my middle finger to answer that question, you transphobic fuck.

The hateful conclusion was that parents are being too “indulgent” when they support their child’s gender identity and seek qualified medical support for them. It strongly suggests that “most kids change their minds”, and then cherry picks a few anecdotal stories to support that conclusion. A parent whose child is…

Yes, insulting me further and flouncing out of the room after a shrieking tantrum definitely convinces me that it’s me who’s the problem, not you. I suppose I’ll never again experience the joys of conversation with you as a result, and I’ll just have to live with that.

The writer wanted to hear from them bullshit-free or not at all. I’m okay with “not at all”, and I think Harron was too.

The human race. But please, do flee this conversation like you’re catching the last helicopter out of Saigon now that everything you’ve said has been exposed as pure, weapons-grade stupidity. We can’t miss you until you leave!

“He didn’t say that!”

She’s amazing. Like a brick getting thrown through a painted over skylight, letting all that glorious sunshine in.

There’s a fucking direct link to his exact words in the article, dumbass.

You’re right. “Dipshit rando on the Internet” is really an attribution, not part of your actual sentence.

“Harrumph! It’s impossible to take the substance of your concerns seriously when you express them so flippantly! Why can’t you express them with the proper journalistic tone, like when Jesse Singal admitted he made a mistake?”

Well, the article it’s responding to isn’t how to be a journalist. When the other person starts with a hateful, transphobic conclusion and cherry-picks cases to support it, sometimes the only question worth asking is, “What the fuck is your deal, asshole?”

I’ve been thinking about this a lot—I think we just don’t know what’s “normal” for sexual orientation and gender identity, because we’ve spent so many generations forcibly preventing people from asking these questions about themselves that it seems rare to us when people refuse to accept the answers that society…

“Medical doctors say that hormone blockers have no long-term side effects, only delay the onset of puberty while they’re in the system, and prevent the development of secondary sexual characteristics that would otherwise require costly and painful surgery to reverse.”

Reminds me of my roommate’s mom. “You should get therapy instead of transitioning.” “My therapist recommended transition.” “Well, you can find a therapist who’ll tell you anything.”

The thing is, ‘civil outreach’ wouldn’t actually answer the question. It might give them a way of tap-dancing around the question, and pretending that they don’t have a fucking deal to be asked about, but I don’t see anything productive that could be gained from giving a bunch of creepy transphobic assholes the chance…

You may have missed the point—there’s nothing they can say. The only question worth asking is, “Seriously, what the fuck is your deal here, asshole?” and yeah, they might not respond to that, but if you phrase the question any more politely, that will just allow them to tap-dance around it rather than answer it. There…

Most of the millennials I know walked out of this movie fanning themselves, so I think the only thing they would find you guilty of is excellent taste in sexual fantasies.