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There’s been an undeniable backlash against the trans rights movement. In February, the liberal outlet The Argument reported on the results of a survey it had commissioned of 3,000 registered voters. The problem wasn’t just that the mainstream trans advocacy position was underwater on genuinely fraught issues like sports and youth gender medicine, but that even a seemingly settled issue—bathrooms—also now polled poorly for trans people.
Jesse Singal is a contributing writer at The Dispatch, a cohost of the Blocked and Reported podcast, and the author of the Singal-Minded newsletter. A former senior editor and writer-at-large at New York Magazine, his work has appeared in outlets like the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, and the Boston Globe. He is the author of The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills, and is presently working on a book about youth gender medicine.
