03 - Jesse Singal - Covering the Trans Beat

1:23 How Jesse first became interested in trans issues and how his views have evolved 19:00 The N-word 24:09 Trans children 30:42 Puberty blockers 40:16 Non-binary people 46:00 How and why Jesse has fallen foul of some trans activists 50:01 Jesse’s upcoming book on the replication crisis Jesse’s writing for New York Magazine can be found here: http://nymag.com/author/jesse-singal/ Especially relevant articles: https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html; https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/ Sign up for Jesse’s blog here: https://jessesingal.substack.com/ Follow Jesse on Twitter @jessesingal Further References: Alice Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists and One Scholar’s Search for Justice (2015) Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would be Queen: The Science of Genderbending and Transsexualism (2003) Hannah Louise Poston, “The News from the World of Beauty: A Close Reading of a Snapchat Scandal” (2018): https://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2018/06/news-world-beauty Natalie Wynn (“Contra Points”): https://www.youtube.com/user/ContraPoints/videos Natalie Reed’s blog: https://freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/