Jesse Singal is an American cultural critic best known for laundering anti-transgender extremism into mainstream media outlets. Below are selected platforms where Singal’s writing has appeared, with a focus on work about gender diverse minors and adults.
This page supplements an overview of the damage Singal’s work has caused.
Self-published resources
Jesse Singal (jessesingal.com)
LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
X/Twitter (x.com)
reddit (reddit.com)
Facebook (facebook.com)
Instagram (instagram.com)
Threads (threads.com)
Bluesky (bsky.app)
Medium (medium.com)
- jesse.singal
- Singal, Jesse (November 21, 2018). Gender Dysphoria, Trauma, and Online Misinformation. medium.com/@jesse.singal/gender-dysphoria-trauma-and-online-misinformation-59a0ed43d275
Substack (substack.com)
- jessesingal
- Singal-Minded
- jessesingal.substack.com
- Blocked and Reported
- blockedandreported.org
- Singal, Jesse (May 4, 2020). Why The Hard Age Caps On Youth Gender Transition Being Proposed By Conservatives Are A Very Bad Idea https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/why-the-hard-age-caps-on-youth-gender
- Singal, Jesse (March 14, 2021). Check Out How Much Effort It Takes To Respond To A Single Lie-Stuffed Tweetstorm Distorting My Work On Youth Gender Dysphoria: A response to Dianna E. Anderson https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/check-out-how-much-effort-it-takes
- Singal, Jesse (June 4, 2019). Is The Process Of Science Reporting Inherently Transphobic? https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/is-the-process-of-science-reporting
- Singal, Jesse (May 8, 2019). Conservatives are lying about what my Atlantic article on Gender Dysphoria Says. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/conservatives-are-lying-about-what
Patreon (patreon.com)
Published resources
Macmillan (us.macmillan.com)
- The Quick Fix
- us.macmillan.com/books/9780374239800
Reason (reason.com)
- Jesse Singal
- reason.com/people/jesse-singal/
New York (nymag.com) and The Cut, Intelligencer, and Science of Us
- Jesse Singal
- nymag.com/author/jesse-singal
- Singal, Jesse (December 30, 2015). Why Some of the Worst Attacks on Social Science Have Come From Liberals. The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2015/12/when-liberals-attack-social-science.html
- Singal, Jesse (January 27, 2016). A False Accusation Helped Bring Down Kenneth Zucker, a Controversial Sex Researcher. The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2016/01/false-charge-helped-bring-down-kenneth-zucker.html
- Singal, Jesse (February 1, 2016). CAMH to Staffers: It Wasn’t Our Job to Fact-check That Report, and Zucker’s Firing Was Just a Coincidence Anyway. The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/how-camh-explained-zuckers-firing-to-its-staff.html
- Singal, Jesse (February 7, 2016). How the Fight Over Transgender Kids Got a Leading Sex Researcher Fired. https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html
- Singal, Jesse (July 25, 2016). What’s Missing From the Conversation About Transgender Kids. https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/whats-missing-from-the-conversation-about-transgender-kids.html
- Singal, Jesse (September 20, 2016). This BBC Interview With a Gender-Nonbinary Kid and His Mom Is Fascinating and Problematic. https://www.thecut.com/2016/09/this-interview-with-a-gender-nonbinary-kid-is-fascinating.html
- Singal, Jesse (January 13, 2017). You Should Watch the BBC’s Controversial Documentary on the Gender-Dysphoria Researcher Kenneth Zucker (Updated). The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/you-should-watch-the-bbcs-kenneth-zucker-documentary.html
- Parents Should Let Children Be Their Gender Nonconforming Selves. https://www.thecut.com/2017/04/parents-should-let-kids-be-their-gender-nonconforming-selves.html
- Singal, Jesse (May 2, 2017). This Is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like. Intelligencer. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html
The Atlantic (theatlantic.com)
- Jesse Singal
- theatlantic.com/author/jesse-singal
- Singal, Jesse (July 2018). When a Child Says She’s Trans. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/
- print cover title: Your Child Says She’s Trans. She Wants Hormones and Surgery. She’s 13.
- stealth edited online title: When Children Say They’re Transgender.
- stealth edited online title: When Children Say They’re Trans.
New York Times (nytimes.com)
- (March 15, 2026). Opinion | The Harm of Banning Care for Trans Youth. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/opinion/trans-youth-care.html
- (February 24, 2026). Opinion | Medical Associations Trusted Belief Over Science on Youth Gender Care. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/opinion/medical-associations-youth-gender-care.html
- (March 27, 2025). Trump’s Attack on Trans Youth Research Is a Tragic Error. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/opinion/trump-transgender-youth-research.html
- (September 7, 2021). Book Review | Trans Rights and Gender Identity. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/books/review/trans-helen-joyce.html
- (November 26, 2018). Letter: Medical Care for Transgender Adults. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/opinion/letters/transgender-medical-care.html
- (January 11, 2018). Opinion | Social Media Is Making Us Dumber. Here’s Exhibit A. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/social-media-dumber-steven-pinker.html
- (September 19, 2017). Opinion | Undercover With the Alt-Right. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/opinion/alt-right-white-supremacy-undercover.html
- (March 5, 2019). Opinion | The Democrats Have a Culture Problem. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/opinion/democrats-liberals-socialists-cultural-left.html
The Spectator World (spectator.com original url spectator.us)
- Jesse Singal
- spectator.com/writer/jesse-singal
- original url spectator.us/author/jesse-singal
UnHerd (unherd.com)
- Jesse Singal
- unherd.com/author/jesse-singal
Chronicle of Higher Education (chronicle.com)
- Jesse Singal
- chronicle.com/author/jesse-singal
Tablet (tabletmag.com)
- Jesse Singal
- tabletmag.com/contributors/jesse-singal
Washington Monthly (washingtonmonthly.com)
- Jesse Singal
- washingtonmonthly.com/author/jesse-singal/
Muck Rack (muckrack.com)
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