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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 3d

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?

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 4d

folks should definitely read this

purritolover.bsky.social @purritolover.bsky.social · 4d

Clearly, 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...

www.juliaserano.com

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 4d

I don't think it's the right way to handle this particular controversy but I think you're off as a matter of principle. States step in to regulate medical treatments all the time. Plaintiffs made a really weak sex-discrimination argument in Skrmetti that made no sense and was never gonna work.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 4d

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/o...

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 4d

In my opinion if you are mad at Jay about the waffles thing -- which I agree was heinously, grotesquely offensive and possibly illegal -- it will be hard to look yourself in the mirror unless you stop posting here forever and go start a newer, better social media platform with more safety features.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 4d

We have no idea if they are minority cases because American youth gender clinics either haven't kept data or haven't published the data they've kept. This is true of the famous 2023 NEJM study and that same team's initial decision to withhold puberty blocker data. It's chronic.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

Yeah, this one I wrote about the leading youth gender doctor in the country was pretty bad.

www.economist.com/united-state...

America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine is being sued

Johanna Olson-Kennedy leads the Centre for Transyouth at LA’s Children’s Hospital. One of her patients thinks she has been negligent

www.economist.com

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

lmao

Matthew Randall @matthewrandall.bsky.social · 5d

Those warnings are getting out of hand.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

I mean I'm very sympathetic to people who seek to transition because they have gender dysphoria. It's not something I could ever fully understand but it seems horrifying. I think when you're talking about minors, including kikds as young as 13 sometimes getting *surgery*, this is very fraught.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

Five minutes ago you tweeted angrily about something that didn't happen! You didn't lie -- you just didn't check.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

Here you go though

archive.is/GXk1g

archive.is

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

I think one part of the problem is people make up rumors about the story, and then other people, like you, get mad at the rumors before having read it. That overwhelming majority of the social media criticism I've gotten does not appear pegged to the real content of the actual article.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

I don't know what to say. I don't know how to sugar-coat it. For a 22-year-old to sign a release to be photographed for a story about youth gender issues, and to then claim they were 'outed' when that photo was used... I can't wrap my mind around it. I think it's a prima facie ridiculous complaint.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

I mean I just don't think you've read the article? If you had you'd probably have a better grasp on who the subjects were.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

No worries if you need a bit of time to read the article you're so furious about

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

Sorry I just think you're a little fuzzy on what you're even mad about. You think I interviewed the cover model?

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

Who did I interview who is unhappy about it?

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Fireside Chat 🏕️🔥 Brutus 🌸🌀 @bulbousdreamer.darkwo.ke · 5d

Hmm suit yourself

Herzog argued that thirteen-year-olds were in the chatroom because
"pedophilia typically emerges around the age of twelve or thirteen",
[125:0:45:45 so Singal later concludes "thirteen-year-old pedophiles should have a place to talk about how to manage their condition or orientation or whatever you want to call it. [125):1:13:48 He adds that a problem with the subject is that people conflate destigmatizing discussions about one's attraction to children with destigmatizing the act of having sex with children, and he attributes this to "some leftist communities", an example he cites being "some actual pedophiles in like LGBT groups and stuff" though he acknowledges most LGBT people are against that. [125]:0:49:40
They also discuss use of the term "minor-attracted person" ("MAP") as an alternative to the term "pedophile", and Herzog mentions her emall exchange with an "actual pedophile" who explained that it was "pure hysteria" to believe the euphemism was coined to destigmatize pedophilia because it was "coined by mental health professionals and it's simply an umbrella term for pedophilia, hebephilia, etcetera."[125):0:34:00 Herzog and Singal cite their own past work about pedophiles in The Stranger and New York magazine respectively as further reading on the topic,
[125):0:35:45 such as Singal's 2016 article "How Should Society Handle
Pedophiles Who Haven't Hurt Anyone?" (which also heavily cites Cantor).
[133] After Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 arrest, Singal and Herzog argued it was not technically correct to call Epstein a pedophile;[8]|9|10] Singal also called this semantic distinction a "mainstream scientific opinion". [134] It isn't clear how young Epstein's youngest victims were, but at least one accuser claims that he sought girls "as young as I could find them" (135] One 2020 lawsuit alleges that he abused victims as young as eleven years old.136]

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jazzcabbbage.bsky.social @jazzcabbbage.bsky.social · 5d

how much do they pay you to forget about your conscience? Try answering this one honestly Jesse: have you ever accepted money from the republican party or the heritage foundation?

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

I did not misgender and out a trans person. The "medical information" was exactly two lines of patient notes not connected to an identifiable individual. I'm sorry are worked up about internet rumors

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

I think that because of the dynamics of online rumors, there's a chance you are really mad without understanding exactly what you are mad about

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

What's your understanding of my role in the waiver process

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𝕻𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖊 ΘΔ @oorrggaanniissmm.bsky.social · 5d

This is like letting a serial killer stay in your home because he hasn't killed anyone "yet".

You are complicit in violence, whether you are as ignorant as you pose or not.

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 6d

There's the substance of the signal issue, and then there's the pattern of behavior that jay was responding to -- the constant, _constant_ off topic responses that make this tedious.

On the substance, it's really just that the guy didn't violate the ToS. I'm sorry, that's just it

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demiurge lovato @clarabstract.bsky.social · 5d

Oh hey look who's sharing in your funny in-joke! You didn't wanna sit with the dolls after all, so by all means, meet your new friends and allies!

bsky.app/profile/jess...

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 5d

I know people are very invested in being mad at this but it is an objectively insane complaint to level at The Atlantic on every level

jazzcabbbage.bsky.social @jazzcabbbage.bsky.social · 5d

so you had them sign a waiver before their “before their brain was done developing”? What a hypocrite.

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