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Jesse Singal, a senior journalist and author, has found himself in a row regarding his views on LGBTQ in his recent podcast where he interviewed a trans woman and Bay-Area-based gender clinician Dr Erica Anderson. He is being slammed for showing LGBTQ in a bad light and for coming across as transphobic. His previous articles on the community are also dragged into the controversy. Singal then got listed on GLAAD for the same, alongside Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and other public figures.





Now, author Dan Savage comes in the picture after he defended the blistering attacks on the journalist in a series of tweets saying that he wants to challenge anyone who thinks Singal is transphobic. He also shared an article from the publication Quillette which supported Singal. This got the Internet sharing their thoughts as social media users slammed Savage for extending support to Jesse Singal.






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Autor Dan Savage speaks at Tiffany & Co in Conversation on April 15, 2016, in New York City (Getty Images)


How did Dan Savage come to Jesse Singal’s rescue?​

The 56-year-old LGBTQ community activist took to Twitter to express his views on the recent controversy. He said, “I want to say, "I challenge anyone to listen to this interview @jessesingal did with youth-gender clinician Dr Erica Anderson and tell me he's transphobic, but I know people will continue to insist he's transphobic. But he isn't.” He then tweeted, “I went through this myself a decade ago — people insisting I was transphobic. I was assaulted by people who insisted I was transphobic. People who weirdly invested in me being transphobic. It was an article of faith. I'm not.”





The renowned media pundit then posted, “I haven't said anything about the long & dishonest campaign against @jessesingal because I didn't think it would help. It would be dismissed as one transphobe coming to the defense of another and quite possibly make things worse for Jesse and renew the accusations against me.” He then revealed the reason why he is talking about it saying, “Anyway, I'm speaking up now because this bulls**t @glaad is pulling is just appalling. Putting Singal on a list with people like Tony Perkins and Brian Brown and Keith Ablow is just f**king bµllsh!t. It's defamatory.” Savage concluded with his tweet, “@glaad should retract this and apologize. They most likely won't, but they should.”





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Dan Savage speaks onstage during the 15th Annual Webby Awards at Hammerstein Ballroom on June 13, 2011, in New York City (Getty Images)



I want to say, "I challenge anyone to listen to this interview @jessesingal did with youth-gender clinician Dr. Erica Anderson and tell me he's transphobic," but I know people will continue to insist he's transphobic. But he isn't.Bonus Interview: Youth-Gender Clinician Dr. Erica Anderson On Assessment, The Culture Wars, And Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) March 22, 2021





I went through this myself a decade ago—people insisting I was transphobic. I was assaulted by people who insisted I was transphobic. People who weirdly invested in me being transphobic. It was an article of faith. I'm not.On Glitter, Transphobia, and Hate Speechhttps://t.co/zhHbEU9r96
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) March 22, 2021



I haven't said anything about the long & dishonest campaign against @jessesingal because I didn't think it would help. It would be dismissed as one transphobe coming to the defense of another and quite possibly make things worse for Jesse and renew the accusations against me.
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) March 22, 2021





Anyway, I'm speaking up now because this bµllsh!t @glaad is pulling is just appalling. Putting Singal on a list with people like Tony Perkins and Brian Brown and Keith Ablow is just fµck!ng bµllsh!t. It's defamatory.GLAAD Took False, Previously Disproven Internet Scuttlebutt And Used It To Justify Putting Me On A List Of Supposed Anti-LGBT Bigots (Updated)
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) March 22, 2021



@glaad should retract this and apologize. They most likely won't, but they should.
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) March 22, 2021




Who is Jesse Singal?​

Jesse Singal is a Brooklyn-based journalist. He has penned books on social science and social justice. His Twitter profile revealed that he was a former contributing writer at New York Magazine. He used to cover “everything from social science to politics to weird internet lingo involving staple crops”, says his official website.





His site further tells us, “Before that, I was a Bosch Fellow in Berlin and got a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Policy, where I studied inequality in America and how to fix it (totally worked). My work has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The Boston Globe, The Daily Beast, and other outlets.” He was also in news for his stories on investigative stories about the controversial ethnographer Alice Goffman, the fired xes researcher and gender-identity clinician Kenneth Zucker and a few others.





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Jesse Singal (Twitter)


How did Jesse Singal react to the controversy?​

Jesse Singal first penned a lengthy blog where he took on GLAAD’s pointers one by one and also asked them to take down their article. According to GLAAD, “Singal had wrongly claimed that adolescent patients who did not return to a clinic for gender dysphoria had "desisted" and no longer desired to change genders. There was never any evidence that any of the adolescents actually desisted. Singal says he "goofed" but clung to his belief that trans children can and do desist.” Reverting to this claim, Singal stated, “This one’s particularly infuriating because GLAAD is just straightforwardly parroting a false claim about me that has been circulating for years. This refers to a genuine error I made that I explained, in depth, in a Medium post headlined “A Lot of People, Myself Included, Have Been Misreading the Single Biggest Published Study on Childhood Gender Dysphoria Desistance and Persistence — It Offers Stronger Evidence for Desistance Than We Thought.”





According to his blog, “GLAAD Accountability Project catalogs anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and discriminatory actions of politicians, commentators, organization heads, religious leaders, and legal figures who have used their platforms, influence and power to spread misinformation and harm LGBTQ people. The Project reveals these individuals’ own words and actions, to help all Americans evaluate whether to vote for them, or quote them, or support their point of view. As journalists, newsrooms and platforms write stories or book guests for interviews and segments, they can check the record, add context to stories, or help decide whether a person with this history should continue to be given unchallenged air time or ink.”





Jesse Singal also took to Twitter when Dan Savage started facing the heat in the matter saying, “This is an underappreciated aspect of today's affair and how completely off the rails this organization is. GLAAD says right there that it's a problem to think desistance is real *at all*!!! They are pushing genuinely Trump-level science denialism, just from the other side.” In the next tweet, he shared, “Search Dan Savage's name and you'll see a cavalcade of people freaking out at him for defending me. As always, it's a subset of online obsessives who only have the foggiest sense exactly what they're mad about. One rumor appears to be that that *Dan* wrote the Quillette piece!”






This is an underappreciated aspect of today's affair and how completely off the rails this organization is. GLAAD says right there that it's a problem to think desistance is real *at all*!!!

They are pushing genuinely Trump-level science denialism, just from the other side. https://t.co/6lZz1krC5G
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) March 23, 2021



Search Dan Savage's name and you'll see a cavalcade of people freaking out at him for defending me. As always, it's a subset of online obsessives who only have the foggiest sense exactly what they're mad about. One rumor appears to be that that *Dan* wrote the Quillette piece! pic.twitter.com/hKs0HlprxS
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) March 23, 2021




‘Dan Savage continues to boost transphobia’​

Social media users were not in a mood to calm down after Dan Savage tweeted in support of Singal. Speaking on the same lines, one user said, “Maybe you should listen to trans people on this one. And ...you know...on anything impacting them. I mean jesus dude, you of all people should know better.” One added, “It's useless. Their definition of transphobic is literally anyone who disagrees with them on anything. Disagreeing is a form of denial of their lived experience, which to them is equal to being against their very existence. That's why they talk in terms of "my existence", etc.”





Another said, “Dan, what the actual f**k? I'm so incredibly disappointed in you I can't even voice it all right now. as if the transphobic bigot brigades he incites isn't proof enough. jesus. you're so wrong on this. so so wrong.” The next one tweeted, “Dan Savage proving he's not transphobic by defending Jesse Singal. Maybe not the best approach,” whereas, the other said, “Jesse getting Bruenig and Dan Savage to one after the other say incredibly foolish, ugly, and transphobic things to cosign/defend him is in line with his general role in media, which is to call other powerful people to their transphobia.”





One slammed, “Can't believe that after years of hating, vaginas generally, bisexuals, asexuals, trans people and Black people, dan savage would do something explicitly transphobic.” One user concluded, “Dan Savage continues to boost transphobia and show his desire to hurt transgender people. As if that wasn't clear from pushing transphobic bigot Katie Herzog on us. Jesse Singal devotes his time and effort to hurting and harassing transgender people. Dan is transphobic.”





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Author Dan Savage attends Tiffany & Co. in Conversation on April 15, 2016, in New York City. (Getty Images)



Maybe you should listen to trans people on this one. And ...you know...on anything impacting them.

I mean jesus dude, you of all people should know better.
— Mistress Emma Evans (@MelanieMoore) March 22, 2021





It's useless. Their definition of transphobic is literally anyone who disagrees with them on anything. Disagreeing is a form of denial of their lived experience, which to them is equal to being against their very existence.
That's why they talk in terms of "my existence", etc.
— Dave T (@daveTgeek) March 22, 2021



Dan, what the actual fµck? I'm so incredibly disappointed in you I can't even voice it all right now. as if the transphobic bigot brigades he incites isn't proof enough. jesus. you're so wrong on this. so so wrong.
— stars my destination (@ClearandBright) March 22, 2021





Dan Savage proving he's not transphobic by (checks notes) defending Jesse Singal.

maybe not the best approach.
— Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) March 22, 2021



Jesse getting Bruenig and Dan Savage to one after the other say incredibly foolish, ugly, and transphobic things to cosign/defend him is in line with his general role in media, which is to call other powerful people to their transphobia.1
— Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) March 23, 2021





can't believe that after years of hating (checks notes) vaginas generally, bisexuals, asexuals, trans people and Black people, dan savage would (checks notes) do something explicitly transphobic
— the beads haver (@NoraReed) March 23, 2021


Dan Savage continues to boost transphobia and show his desire to hurt transgender people.

As if that wasn't clear from pushing transphobic bigot Katie Herzog on us.

Jesse Singal devotes his time and effort to hurting and harassing transgender people. Dan is transphobic. https://t.co/Nekq9QpXwU
— Sasha Fennec (@fennec_sasha) March 22, 2021
 

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The slow deplatforming of journalist in the mainstream.
Independent journalist and creators were warning of this but the mainstream journalism world didn’t care.
 

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I forgot about Dan Savage. Well hopefully he doesn’t waiver. Folks I have to keep the I said what I said energy with these people.
 

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The left is cannibalizing itself . The right has the advantage here because they are thrilled to belong to a cult even if they don't agree on everything.
 

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It's not surprising that people defend other people in the same profession even if they hate each other. Comedians do that all the time.
 

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The left is cannibalizing itself . The right has the advantage here because they are thrilled to belong to a cult even if they don't agree on everything.
This is the real danger. At the end of the day conservatives are united around one thing - the $, and how to keep more of it in their own hands instead of the governments. All of their other beliefs are irrelevant because they're all willing to compromise and unite in order to reach this one goal. People often talk about the cognitive dissonance black Republicans or gay Republicans must have, not realizing that they don't care. They don't prioritize things like gay marriage (although they might want it) ahead of personal financial success and stability.

What the left should be doing is running a platform for the same thing - what most people want is to succeed in life, show them how voting for you will help them reach that goal! They just need to show a different way to do this, with left-leaning politics and having the state as a big player and regulator in the economy. But instead far too much emphasis is placed on identity politics, which is extremely divisive even amongst left-leaning people. And sure, they have a part to play and people have the capacity to compromise and that's how change is made, but it shouldn't be everything people talk about when you're talking left-wing politics.

Plus this insistence on cancelling everyone who doesn't toe the line is the left's true downfall. Compromise involves accepting that there are people with differing views but we work together for the common good. That's what politics is. Politics is not having only an extremely narrow set of views as the only socially acceptable ones and demonizing everyone who doesn't fit into that box. I consider myself both economically and socially progressive, but because of only a few of my views (including on trans people) some would consider me socially conservative which is crazy to me...
 

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Thought this was about Savage Dan from chuckie’s podcast ‍♀️...
 

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