"Captain" "Ruck" "Cohlchez"

The 1st time the nyt leadership engaged me on trans issues, in 2021, they asked my opinion of a Jesse Singal review of a book by the transphobic writer Helen Joyce. The piece had been assigned by Pamela Paul 🧵

Not lost on me that a piece ostensibly about rising antisemitism in the Democratic Party focuses almost entirely on Zohran Mamdani, Uncommitted, AOC and Mejia and not, like, the guy with the Nazi tattoo.

another great addition to the “oh so it’s illegal to have friends now?” canon

in addition to evoking the "deceiver" trope (he "fell prey" to trans/LGBTQ+ ppl), Newsom is the LEAST CULTURALLY NORMAL prominent Dem politician right now. he owns a winery. he married Kimberly Guilfoyle. when they split up he dated 19-year-old (when he was 38). he podcasts w/Steve Bannon, etc.

"I’ve been covering this controversy for about a decade from a left-of-center perspective, and I’ve found that anyone who questions these treatments, even mildly, is invariably accused of bigotry. It would be shocking if the professional organizations chiming in on these issues — which, like all such organizations, exist in part to increase the esteem of their members and to enhance their own influence — were immune from such influences. And now that the political winds have shifted radically, with the Trump administration launching an all-out assault on both the practice of and research into youth gender medicine, it seems some of them are realizing they would benefit from appearing a bit more moderate."

Yeah, it's because Singal a sadistic bigot who enjoys gaslighting trans people. Singal loves crying cancel culture while simultaneously emailing the employers of trans women trying to get them fired.

"Policy statements like this one can reflect the complex and opaque internal politics of an organization, rather than dispassionate scientific analysis. The journalist Aaron Sibarium’s reporting strongly suggests that a small group of A.A.P. members, many of whom were themselves youth gender medicine providers, played a disproportionate role in developing these guidelines."

Yeah, why would experts in a field of care drive the developments of policy statements about it. It should be people who have no idea about the field at all and have never met a trans person. /s

The image is a text excerpt from the same article, which reads: "At a time when more and more Americans are turning away from expert authority in favor of YouTube quacks and their ilk — and when our own government is pushing scientifically baseless policies on childhood vaccination and climate change — it’s vital that the organizations that represent mainstream science be open, honest and transparent about politically charged issues. If they aren’t, there’s simply no good reason to trust them." Would you like me to help you look into the "scientifically baseless policies" the author is referencing, or perhaps find rebuttals to this specific argument?

The venn diagram of people pushing bans on gender affirming care and anti vaxxers is a circle.

An image of a New York Times Opinion Guest Essay titled "Medical Associations Trusted Belief Over Science on Youth Gender Care," published February 24, 2026. The article is written by Jesse Singal. Below the headline is an illustration featuring a person in green medical scrubs with a stethoscope around their neck; the top half of their face is obscured by a large transgender pride flag (consisting of horizontal blue, pink, and white stripes). The bottom of the screenshot includes a "Listen to this article" player and a brief bio of the author. Would you like me to help you draft a response or an analysis of the arguments presented in this essay?

Jesse Singal is back to spike the football on the backs of trans youth. Congrats man, you got care banned in most of the country, families are fleeing the country, and trans kids are killing themselves.

Happy now?

I think a great way to address it would be to cast the role of Mickey Rooney in an equally racially inappropriate manner. And then I was thinking, who has similar child-acting experience, particularly similar to Rooney's Vaudeville roots, and still acts steadily?

And I give you, Kenan Thompson.

“It’s a great shame and we’re all very sorry that your uncle touched you in that nasty place, you get some of my sympathy, but your self-pity gets none of my sympathy because self-pity is the ugliest emotion in humanity. “Get rid of it, because no one’s going to like you if you feel sorry for yourself. The irony is we’ll feel sorry for you, if you stop feeling sorry for yourself. Just grow up.” https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/12/stephen-fry-fury-comments-abuse-victims-self-pity-charity-mind

lol literally just remembered that in 2016 Everyone's Favourite Cambridge Twat Stephen Fry, unprompted, told everyone to just get over being molested by their uncles.

I can't remember if this was before or after he said women can't get horny. Still a beloved UK star.

Maya Luna @envisionedluna. 5h X Need to get into the mind of the guy who sees a graphic showing a trillion dollar industry where only .3% of people spend money on the service and thinks it's proof there ISNT a bubble John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre - 22h 84% of people have never used Al, and just 0.3% of users pay for premium services. Anyone who thinks Al is a bubble isn't paying attention.

Shit, the papers freaked out over "Paedogeddon" and ran their freakouts right next to features commenting on underage girls' bodies and such. That was 25 years ago! All that's changed since then is that some people got caught.

Life imprisonment or death for every ICE officer.

Have you ever considered that YOU are in fact a rude, aggressive asshole? That you go out of your way to pick fights with women for no reason? That you seem to think posting on Bluesky is the extent of what you have to do to be a good person? Stop harassing women and take a long look in the mirror.

I think the only reason I couldn't find an earlier comment about the UK's institutional pedophilia is because Bluesky simply hasn't been around that long

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Every single op-ed column today is lamenting the "mob justice" (actual justice, but to an important person) against the wealthy and royal pedophiles, while these same columnists are constantly trying to whip up the ACTUAL mob "justice" they pretend to decry against trans people.

It happened whilst he was still alive, that's lightning quick for a member of the ruling class

I think a great way to address it would be to cast the role of Mickey Rooney in an equally racially inappropriate manner. And then I was thinking, who has similar child-acting experience, particularly similar to Rooney's Vaudeville roots, and still acts steadily?

And I give you, Kenan Thompson.

Right-wing men desire progressive women because, for right-wing men, sex and desire are about hatred, power, domination, and humiliation. That's why so many of them are rapists and paedophiles. To want to fuck someone is to want to hurt and degrade them.

You really think you come off as anything but a smug, classist, punchable cunt in this, huh.

All the little Labour careerist weasels drove the left out of the party. On purpose. And yet you and them still expect fealty. Still bleating your tired "dividing the left and helping the right" talking points like you've been in a coma for the last ten years.

This is also a story about caste! Hindutva apologists are far more likely to buy into this kind of MAGA-adjacent eugenicist horseshit if they are also caste supremacists! (Special fuck you to Gavin Newsom for vetoing the bill that would have banned caste discrimination in California.)

No one on the left wants anyone living on the streets or behaving poorly in public. Unlike liberals we just want all the money to go into preventing it upfront by helping people as opposed to going toward punishment.

A liberal witnessing a homeless person or someone in crisis:

This is happening to me.

Wow says here the success of the left hinges on a random person’s post.

There are too many in the radical center who think some random poster is representative of The Entire Left but every time some prominent person who believes what the radical centrist believes says or does something horrific, they're all aberrations

I feel like a lot of Americans don’t know that American-turned-British right-wing extremist opinion columnist (who occasionally writes long-form opinion columns) Lionel Shriver doesn’t write fiction per se, but rather the imaginary phantasms under her bed, in her walls, hiding in her couch

i think one thing the "purity-test" whiners forget is that while it is obviously bad that the republicans campaign and legislate for the immisseration of our trans friends but it is *fucking over* if the democrats nominate someone ready to concede the fight.

for better or worse, gavin newsom talks about trans people more than any other democrat