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also published a series of responses to Singal's article. One was a personal story of de-transition after being physically assaulted and transitioning again when it was safer to do so. Another focused on the fact that detransitioners make up a relatively small subset of those who access transition
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attempt to extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging dumpster fires. (And sometimes they talk about other stuff, too.)" Herzog and Singal have both been described as politically liberal, "heterodox" and "
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which, according to Singal, turned out to have weak empirical support or reproducibility, or which were exaggerated into stronger claims which are "scientifically questionable but sexy and exciting". The book examines the
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Singal is one of three sons born to Sydney L. (née Altman) (1949–2021) and Bruce A. Singal. Both of his parents were attorneys. He received a master's degree in public affairs from
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