I would suspect this is much closer to Richard Spencer disavowing white supremacist terrorists on camera on his way to Charlottesville. Singal's role in the movement requires certain gestures, and it's possible that he's legitimately not aware but I'm not convinced

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We had an interaction, probably in 2019, where I just wanted to know what evidence he'd need to accept that detransition actually was rare, and it became clear that there was none. He's ideologically invested in something having gone wrong with trans care and will accept no evidence to the contrary.

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There was a time I thought Jesse Singal was, like me, an honest journalist who came at trans coverage from a cis-centric perspective that sometimes led to outsized concerns about rare or nonexistent problems, but was also really trying to get to the truth of things. But that was 8 years ago.

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Every year transphobes say the wave of detransitions will begin any day now, and every year the number of detransitioners who will work with them, worldwide, remains in the low to mid countable-on-one-hand

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it's not that they think mass detransition will just happen, it's that they think trans people are the result of "gender ideology" and by working hard to eliminate it, trans people will come to their senses and want to go back to normal. it's less a prediction and more them stating their objective

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