Substack Is Not a Neutral Platform

The newsletter platform is the latest tech company to turn a blind eye to anti-trans arguments

Jude Ellison S. Doyle

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8 min readMar 17, 2021

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Photo: Andrew Brookes/Getty Images

Last weekend, I announced my intent to abandon Substack. I surprised myself a little with the decision. I like my newsletter. I had content scheduled for two or three months in advance. I had been on the platform since early 2018, when I was…

Jude Ellison S. Doyle

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Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.

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