Malcolm Gladwell Trans Women Sports Debate

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Malcolm Gladwell admits being 'cowed' into supporting trans women in sports, now says they have no place in women's categories, sparking debate on free speech and credibility.

Michael Shellenberger

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Like him or not, Malcolm Gladwell is one of the most influential and financially successful journalists of the last 30 years. For him to say he was too scared to say men don’t belong in girls sports shows both how totalitarian the MSM is and how chicken shit MSM journalists are.

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Michael Shellenberger

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Like him or not, Malcolm Gladwell is one of the most influential and financially successful journalists of the last 30 years. For him to say he was too scared to say men don’t belong in girls sports shows both how totalitarian the MSM is and how chicken shit MSM journalists are.

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Michael Shellenberger

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Like him or not, Malcolm Gladwell is one of the most influential and financially successful journalists of the last 30 years. For him to say he was too scared to say men don’t belong in girls sports shows both how totalitarian the MSM is and how chicken shit MSM journalists are.

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Michael Shellenberger

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Like him or not, Malcolm Gladwell is one of the most influential and financially successful journalists of the last 30 years. For him to say he was too scared to say men don’t belong in girls sports shows both how totalitarian the MSM is and how chicken shit MSM journalists are.

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Michael Shellenberger

Michael Shellenberger

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Like him or not, Malcolm Gladwell is one of the most influential and financially successful journalists of the last 30 years. For him to say he was too scared to say men don’t belong in girls sports shows both how totalitarian the MSM is and how chicken shit MSM journalists are.

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Jennifer Sey

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Malcolm Gladwell says “trans athletes have no place in the female category.” He admits he was cowed into saying that it was ok. He knows it’s not. He was bullied into it and he’s ashamed that he gave in. Good for him. Mad props.

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Jennifer Sey

Jennifer Sey

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Malcolm Gladwell says “trans athletes have no place in the female category.” He admits he was cowed into saying that it was ok. He knows it’s not. He was bullied into it and he’s ashamed that he gave in. Good for him. Mad props.

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Matt Walsh

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I'm glad that all of these people are finally coming over to the sane side on this issue but this is not a forgive and forget situation. If you were "cowed" into denying basic biological reality, you have permanently lost your credibility. We can never trust you again.

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Matt Walsh

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I'm glad that all of these people are finally coming over to the sane side on this issue but this is not a forgive and forget situation. If you were "cowed" into denying basic biological reality, you have permanently lost your credibility. We can never trust you again.

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Matt Taibbi

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Dear @Gladwell , Now that you’ve admitted to being too afraid to tell the truth while working in media, please feel free to apologize for accusing me of longing for the days of Jim Crow in the 2002 Munk debate on “Should we trust mainstream media”? This was after I mentioned that

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