Jesse Singal
@jessesingal.com
Journalist, co-host of Blocked and Reported, author of The Quick Fix and an upcoming book on youth gender medicine. Mostly just asking questions. More info: JesseSingal.com
It's up to you to decide whether to try to convince others that your concerns and beliefs are worth adopting. Showing up doesn't mean you'll win, but not showing up means you'll be fringe. There are no awards handed out for telling the world you're exhausted that most people disagree with you
people on this site need to calm down so badly. it's just such an unhealthy way to be
New from me: Elon Musk, Standpoint Epistemologist (on his claim that if you don't have kids you can't do AI alignment) jessesingal.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...
Elon Musk, Standpoint Epistemologist
It’s all the same nonsense
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This is groundhog day medical misinformation hell. Not OP's fault: 1. Most science journos have been laid off 2. Mainstream outlets rarely touch this meaningfully 3. This leaves a gap that's filled with partisans chanting TORDOFF 2022! TORDOFF 2022! etc jessesingal.substack.com/p/researcher...
Researchers Found Puberty Blockers And Hormones Didn’t Improve Trans Kids’ Mental Health At Their Clinic. Then They Published A Study Claiming The Opposite. (Updated)
A critique of Tordoff et al. (2022)
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I'm baffled by the designation of SEGM as a hate group. I reached out to the SPLC repeatedly to try to get them to explain it to no avail. I've never seen anything that would justify that label and the SPLC's written claims were truly bonkers. jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-disast...
The Disaster At McMaster, Part 1
Scholars are being “traumatized,” a long-running collaboration is being torched. . . what is going on?
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The 1% quote is made-up in the context of youth gender medicine, unfortunately. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... See also Kinnon MacKinnon There's also a broader point here about using regret/detrans in the absence of more robust measures. But we don't even know the regret/detrans %.
The Detransition Rate Is Unknown
An official website of the United States government
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I wrote about Dr. Jonathan Howard's view that to ask the question "What is a man?" is to put people in physical danger. I also questioned doctors who are unfamiliar with the bare basics of research methods can provide good care to their patients. jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-can-do...
How Can Doctors Like This Provide Competent Care To Their Patients?
Some beef with Dr. Jonathan Howard
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Bluesky users are objectively in favor of violent threats deployed against the 'right' targets. When Bluesky does the right thing and bans or suspends one of its many users who engage in violent threats, the only possible explanation is a conspiracy theory.
I think what annoys me the most is advocates for youth gender medicine simply *lying*, for years, that doctors only prescribe these treatments after careful deliberation -- long after we've known that this isn't the case. It's hard to fathom the recklessness www.thefp.com/p/a-legal-fi...
A Legal First That Could Change Gender Medicine
At 16, Fox Varian got a mastectomy while undergoing a gender transition. She sued her psychologist and plastic surgeon for leaving her ‘disfigured for life.’ Benjamin Ryan reports from the courtroom.
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I made it clear in the piece that I think violence is a bad and counterproductive solution. I don't think anyone can read it and honestly accuse me of endorsing violence. Plus Trump has (remarkably and against what I expected) dialed down the tensions a bit since then anyway.
Laurie Em@laurieem.bsky.social · 6mo ago@jessesingal.com "In light of the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis, I’m worried that it’s getting harder and harder to make the standard anti-violence argument in good faith." Is that what you would have said to Gandhi and MLK?
U.S. District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz (Republican-appointed in ‘06): “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
yeah i don't equivocate on this in the piece -- my argument is that prior, c2020 arguments against violent protest seem to no longer really apply, though there's actually been some de-escalation on trump's part (somehow) over the last day or so
Versa@versamusic.bsky.social · 6mo agoIf protests become violent, that will give legitimacy to the government's use of violence. Keeping protests non-violent is *absolutely essential* for them to be effective, and for protesters to maintain, unequivocally, the moral high ground.
The Trump Administration Is Eroding The Case For Keeping Protests Nonviolent jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
The Trump Administration Is Eroding The Case For Keeping Protests Nonviolent
This is new
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Fertility decline is a huge social problem and will profoundly shape the world, but people outside the far right are neglecting it because of the unsavory views of those who are most vocal. Has to change. www.noahpinion.blog/p/lets-save-... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Let's save the human species!
There's probably a solution out there to fertility decline. Let's find it!
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That's me -- I forced mainstream trans activists and their attorneys to appeal this case to SCOTUS, to make a Title IX argument based on sex discrimination, and to then, when asked what their definition of 'sex' is, say they don't have any. I would have gotten away with it too if not for bluesky.
If you'd like to read our statement about the false claims in TNN’s interview, you can do so here. www.nytco.com/press/fact-c...
Fact-Checking False Claims about our Gender Identity Coverage | The New York Times Company
A recent post from Trans News Network included numerous falsehoods about New York Times stories on gender identity and maligned some of the journalists involved in the work. Our coverage is guided by…
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Bluesky obsessives are far too credulous and in many cases have helped to elevate liars www.nytco.com/press/fact-c...
Fact-Checking False Claims About Our Gender Identity Coverage | The New York Times Company
A recent post from Trans News Network included numerous falsehoods about New York Times stories on gender identity and maligned some of the journalists involved in the work. Our coverage is guided by…
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BARPod has a really good episode up today about milking minotaurs (sexually), which is a thing I've never done before but sincerely hope to at some point www.blockedandreported.org/p/premium-fi...
Premium: Finally, We Milk The Minotaurs
A very beefy episode
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New from me: Is It Okay To Call Jeffrey Epstein An Ephebophile? jessesingal.substack.com/p/is-it-okay...
Is It Okay To Call Jeffrey Epstein An Ephebophile?
(This headline will get screenshot and posted to Bluesky)
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if you think i’m going to engage with any conversation with someone like Jesse, i got a wood chipper to sell you
Jesse Singal@jessesingal.com · 9mo agoWhat's the most violent thing I've posted?
Bluesky's power users are in favor of violent threats, as long as the people receiving them "deserve" them. This is a much more complex and subjectivity-laden stance to take than the mods' stance, which is violent threats are always bad. The power users hate the mods for this.
New BARPod episode about Bluesky users, mods, and waffles www.blockedandreported.org/p/premium-bl...
Premium: Bluesky Users Go To War With Mods Over... Waffles
It's not about waffles.
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Hey, I'm trying to learn more about toxicity on Bluesky. How often do you see toxicity on here? Where in the app do you see it?
I have used the forbidden term (WAFFLES) so it is now a "Nazi dog whistle" Do BlueSky powerusers understand what a laughingstock this place is?
folks should definitely read this
@purritolover.bsky.social · 10mo agoClearly, because he hasn’t just outright said “we should kill trans kids” that means his thin veneer of “just asking questions” is actually real and he has never taken actions to harm trans people ever. Read this from Julia Serano www.juliaserano.com/av/JesseSing...
