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Melissa Chen vs. transgender people

Melissa Chen is a conservative Singaporean writer and anti-transgender activist.

Chen is an advisor at anti-trans group Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism and has been involved in numerous other conservative projects that oppose trans rights, such as Environmental Progress.

Background

Melissa Chiu Chen was born inĀ Singapore on December 12, 1984 and grew up in a conservative family. Chen earned an undergraduate degree at Boston University and a doctorate at MIT. Chen worked at the Broad InstituteĀ as a genome researcher before becoming a writer.

In 2017 Chen co-founded Ideas Beyond Borders with Faisal Saeed Al Mutar. The organization translates controversial political works into Arabic.

In 2022, Chen co-chaired the finance committee for anti-trans activist Michael Shellenbergerā€™s run for governor of California.

Anti-transgender activism

Via The New Yorker:

Chen and Boghossian had workshopped a pitch to the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, for a project to create ā€œa modern-day Death Starā€ to wage ā€œideological warfareā€ on the ā€œenemies of modernityā€; their plan involved writing coƶrdinated op-eds and promoting anti-woke content, but it was rejected. Weiss and her friends also sought advice from Niall Ferguson, a historian at the Hoover Institution, about the best way forward.

Green (2023)

Ā Chen has appeared on Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy and has been a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience.

References

Green, Emma (June 5, 2023). Is it possible to be both moderate and anti-woke? New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-activism/is-it-possible-to-be-both-moderate-and-anti-woke

Resources

Melissa Chen (melissa.blog)

Twitter (twitter.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

The Spectator (spectatorworld.com)

Muck Rack (muckrack.com)

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)