Jesse Singal
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
- 1/ Just to clear this up: I never threatened to sue Gretchen Felker-Martin. Rather, I posted, on Substack, that I wanted GFM to stop constantly tweeting disturbingly violent and sexually explicit fantasies about me, and I stand by it.
- A lot of people on this site seem deeply angry and unhappy, and the posting and posting and posting just makes them more so -- it doesn't bring any relief.
- I think the upside is that it will collapse under the weight of its own craziness in terms of the company's ability to come up with any sort of revenue model, but we'll see!
- I think this is a good article and people should check it out. It's unfortunate that people are so anti-intellectual on here that they see a phrase they don't like in a headline and write off an article without (I'm almost positive) reading it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- we've been trying for years -- none are willing to defend their ideas in a non-hugbox setting. michael hobbes, julia serano, this guy. not saying anyone is *obligated* to debate, but if you're going to make strong, inflammatory claims about someone it's a bit cowardly to refuse to engage
- He stopped responding but I can hear some frantic googling off in the distance
- This is really bad
- New from me: The detention and attempted deportation of Rumeysa Ozturk is absolutely sickening, a sign of an administration willing to go to terrifying lengths to chill and punish constitutionally protected pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel speech jessesingal.substack.com/p/this-is-si...
- addressed this one almost six years ago jessesingal.substack.com/p/conservati...
- Helen Webberley makes an interesting argument: biological sex testing in elite athletics is similar to Auschwitz www.instagram.com/p/DHvo2QetrQL/
- Reposted by Jesse SingalYou can't really mean this sentiment. This is Trump-ian in its passive-agressive "who me?" encouragement or indifference to violent actions. Please, for the love of god, do not become batshit crazy like the other side.
- Reposted by Jesse SingalI'm not trans. I don't have any trans members of my family, but I promise you, if I ever see Jesse Singal, I will take a swing at him just as quickly as I'd strike any overt Neo Nazi or Grand Wizard Klansman.
- I've never, anywhere, come close to calling for youth gender medicine to be banned, or for research on it to be banned. If Wong is unfamiliar with my work she shouldn't post about me, and if she's simply lying, she should stop. She writes for The Guardian, not some obscure blog.
- Reposted by Jesse SingalBe careful, "live show" in British English translates to "hairy buttcrack" in American English. You'll want to say you're doing a couple of "Blimey Chinwags".
- It's looking more and more likely I'll be doing a couple of (non-BARPod) live shows in London in May that I am VERY excited about. Hope to make it official soon.
- I asked an immigration attorney I trust and have had some dealings with whether the Mahmoud Khalil case represents scary territory. He said yes, it does.
- so good
- FWIW he was very abusive to me, although it was your fault bsky.app/profile/nate...
- Nathan Oseroff-Spicer should make a full list of the philosophers whose views on sex and gender he disagrees with, and then specifically explain what sort of violence each one deserves as retribution
- Please report
- New from me: Michael Shellenberger’s Latest Viral Conspiracy Theory Is As Idiotic As It Is Irresponsible People really need to understand how far gone this guy is and how little he cares about his deeply addled 'reporting' harming innocent people. jessesingal.substack.com/p/michael-sh...
- Long free piece about Michael Shellenberger's reporting going up later today jessesingal.substack.com/subscribe
- Cloud Cult - Moving to Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCv6...
- The Trump administration has treated the Tate brothers, who are credibly accused of rape and sex trafficking, much better than it has treated Zelenskyy
- "Give us your minerals in exchange for prior aide" is not good faith
- I mean he likes Putin and for reasons that are hard to understand really dislikes Zelenskyy
- "I'm ashamed to be American" is pretty performative and not usually apt -- America is a lot of things! and a lot of people! -- but I'm not sure what else to say today. This is sickening, especially when you consider the price Ukraine has paid in blood for 3 years. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
- Grotesque www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
- Last night Elon Musk posted an out-of-context screenshot of a Social Security spreadsheet and began speculating wildly about some sort of massive fraud. As soon as I pointed out that the truth was likely less exciting, I got an email from a former SSA worker (I confirmed) who said... basically that.
- Trump-supporting evangelical conservative: Putting teenagers on hormones and giving them double mastectomies? Makes sense to me! [reads balanced NYT magazine article highlighting disputes within WPATH] I was wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guys Elon did *not* "award himself" a $400 million contract. That was a Biden-era contract and it's now on hold anyway. Elon is a massively dangerous purveyor of misinformation at the moment so now's a particularly good time not to mirror his tendencies. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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- The conspiracy theory that until liberal journalists discovered and wrote about the youth gender medicine controversy, everyone was going to be a-okay with giving 13-year-olds double mastectomies and putting 12-year-olds on hormones... I just can't express how dumb this is, to be honest.
- My pizzas are generally pretty ugly but I think this one from last night was aesthetically solid. Taste-wise, last night was one of my best runs ever
- I wrote about Charles Piller's EXCELLENT book "Doctored," which is about rampant fraud in Alzheimer's research, and how important it is to question and reform the scientific establishment -- even if Trump's assaults on it has made the timing awkward jessesingal.substack.com/p/trump-or-n...
- I agree! But on Bluesky left-wing threats of political violence are rampant, while right-wing ones get quickly shouted down and reported. Other sites have other problems.
- Bluesky's widespread norms in favor of left-wing threats of political violence are now having real-world consequences. www.boston.com/news/local-n...
- A lot is going on but I hope today's release of @cpiller's excellent, important, and infuriating book "Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's" doesn't get overshadowed. You should absolutely read it. www.amazon.com/Doctored-Fra...
