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Dan Savage

22 Mar, 6 tweets, 3 min read

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I want to say, "I challenge anyone to listen to this interview @jessesingal did with youth-gender clinician Dr. Erica Anderson and tell me he's transphobic," but I know people will continue to insist he's transphobic. But he isn't.

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I went through this myself a decade ago—people insisting I was transphobic. I was assaulted by people who insisted I was transphobic. People who weirdly invested in me being transphobic. It was an article of faith. I'm not.

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@jessesingal

I haven't said anything about the long & dishonest campaign against @jessesingal because I didn't think it would help. It would be dismissed as one transphobe coming to the defense of another and quite possibly make things worse for Jesse and renew the accusations against me.

@glaad

Anyway, I'm speaking up now because this bullshit @glaad is pulling is just appalling. Putting Singal on a list with people like Tony Perkins and Brian Brown and Keith Ablow is just fucking bullshit. It's defamatory.

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@glaad

@glaad should retract this and apologize. They most likely won't, but they should.

Anyway, here's a piece about what's been going on, for anyone who's interested:

quillette.com/2021/03/18/the…

Most people aren't interested and won't read that long piece — because it's long and it's on Quillette. But it's worth your time.

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