In contrast to the many critics, supporters of Jesse Singal’s biased coverage of trans topics tend to range politically from center-right to fascist and include:
- Jo Bartosh at Spiked
- Ray Blanchard at Archives of Sexual Behavior
- Carey Callahan, a leader of the ex-trans movement
- Ariel Cohen-Wade of Unz Review
- Jerry Coyne at Why Evolution Is True
- Sarah D. at Twitchy
- Katie Daviscourt at Post Millennial
- Tim Dillon at The Tim Dillon Show
- Alice Dreger at the Intellectual Dark Web
- Rod Dreher at The American Conservative
- Kmele Foster at The Fifth Column
- Julia Galef at Rationally Speaking
- Nick Gillespie at Reason
- Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic
- Katie Gordon at Jedi Counsel
- Chad Felix Greene at The Federalist
- Scott H. Greenfield
- Glenn Greenwald at Substack
- Sam Harris at Making Sense
- Katie Herzog
- Yoel Inbar at Two Psychologists Four Beers
- Michael Inzlicht at Two Psychologists Four Beers
- Iona Italia at Two for Tea
- Daniel Kaufman
- Jonathan Kay at Quillette
- Megyn Kelly
- Jamie Kilstein at A F*ckup’s Guide To Self-Help
- David Marcus at The Federalist
- Brett McKay at The Art of Manliness
- Michael Moynihan at The Fifth Column
- Meghan Murphy at Feminist Current
- Jordan Peterson at Daily Wire
- Helen Pluckrose at Two for Tea
- Adam Proctor at Dead Pundit’s Society.
- Victor Rivera
- Joe Rogan at Spotify / The Joe Rogan Experience
- Christine Rosen at Commentary
- Dan Savage at The Stranger
- Brandon Saxton at Jedi Council
- Ashe Schow at Daily Wire
- Ben Shapiro at Daily Wire
- Phil Shiver at The Blaze
- Abigail Shrier
- Scott Alexander Siskind at Slate Star Codex
- Bret Stephens at Commentary
- Andrew Sullivan at Substack
- Josh Szeps at Uncomfortable Conversations
- Julian Vigo at the conservative Witherspoon Institute
- Matt Walsh at Daily Wire
- Matt Welch at The Fifth Column
- Cathy Young at Newsday / Conversations with Cathy
Supporters within the trans community
Erica Anderson is a conservative American psychologist whom Singal has described as one of his favorite clinicians. Singal frequently promotes Anderson’s work. Anderson may be one of the two trans sensitivity readers Singal says reviewed the Atlantic piece prior to publication.
Corinna Cohn is an American software developer who identifies as transsexual and gender critical. Cohn frequently appears in media to share conservative opinions and criticize various aspects of the trans rights movement.
Robyn Kanner is an American marketing executive who sometimes associates with Singal. It’s possible Kanner was one of the two trans sensitivity readers Singal says reviewed his Atlantic piece prior to publication. Kanner also published a response critical of the piece.
Be Scofield is an American activist critical of new religious movements. Scofield considers criticism of Singal to be a “cult-like attack.” In an analogy, Scofield compares Singal to Martin Luther King: “I taught a graduate course on the radical teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. I’m very aware of the extreme measures taken by government and oppositional forces to silence, ruin and derail people and ideas deemed dangerous, or ideologically wrong. Knowing the history of suppression against the left it is mind boggling to see so many progressives cheer it on or sit idly by.”
References
Singal J (May 2019) Episode 5: Those Who Speak Out Against Cancel Culture Must Be Cancelled Immediately (Robyn Kanner). Singal-Minded Conversations
Greenfield, Scott H. (June 20, 2018). Jesse’s Girl. Simple Justice https://blog.simplejustice.us/2018/06/20/jesses-girl/
Dreher, Rod (June 28, 2018). If Lenin had been trans. The American Consevative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/if-lenin-had-been-trans/
Young, Cathy (March 5, 2019). The tyranny of vicious online trolls. Newsday https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/cathy-young/trolls-online-cyberbullying-cathy-young-mckinney-singal-burns-cliffe-1.28076964
Trans activists try taking down science writer Jesse Singal whose painstakingness is a pain in their arse. Gender Is Poison https://genderispoison.wordpress.com/2018/04/26/trans-activists-try-taking-down-science-writer-jesse-singal-whose-painstakingness-is-a-pain-in-their-arse/ https://stoptranschauvinism.wordpress.com/
Marcus, David (June 19, 2018). Trans Activists Lose Their Minds Over Balanced Atlantic Cover Story. The Federalist https://thefederalist.com/2018/06/19/trans-advocates-lose-their-minds-over-balanced-atlantic-cover-story/
Gabriel, Hieromonk (June 25, 2018). Truth, Compassion, and the Transgender Movement. Ancient Faith Ministries https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/rememberingsion/2018/06/25/truth-compassion-transgender-movement/
Murphy, Megan (June 19, 2018). Why must trans activists smear those who put forth inconvenient narratives about ‘gender identity’? https://www.feministcurrent.com/2018/06/19/must-trans-activists-smear-put-forth-inconvenient-narratives-gender-identity/
Shiver, Phil (March 18, 2021). Outrage mob tries to ruin career of journalist who dared to acknowledge kids sometimes ‘desist’ after presenting as transgender. The Blaze https://www.theblaze.com/news/transgender-outrage-mob-tries-to-cancel-journalist
Singal, Jesse (March 22, 2021). GLAAD Took False, Previously Disproven Internet Scuttlebutt And Used It To Justify Putting Me On A List Of Supposed Anti-LGBT Bigots (Updated). Substack / Singal-Minded https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/glaad-took-false-previously-disproven
- “The Atlantic article was rigorously fact-checked and also had two trans sensitivity readers.”
D., Sarah (March 23, 2021). ‘This is insane’: Liberal journalist Jesse Singal fires back hard after GLAAD gets in on vicious campaign to smear him as an anti-trans bigot. Twitchy https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/03/22/this-is-insane-liberal-journalist-jesse-singal-fires-back-hard-after-glaad-gets-in-on-vicious-campaign-to-smear-him-as-an-anti-trans-bigot/
Media appearances
Tim Dillon (March 20, 2021)
Destiny (May 1, 2022)
Bret Weinstein and Lames Lindsay (October 28, 2020)
Sam Harris (May 21, 2021)
In 2022 the illustration was updated in response to feedback.