I am a member of a Facebook group called "Actual Gender Critical Left." Your article was posted in reply to another member who posted the Jamie Reed article. I want to note that your statement, "Trans-exclusionary radical feminists often call themselves 'liberal' or 'progressive' but are anything but," is false.

Though I don't consider myself a "TERF" (which has become a slur along the lines of "b**tch" or "c**t), I do question many aspects of gender-affirming care, especially for young teens and teens. I am 61 years old, a woman (not trans), a mother of three now-adult children. I have been a progressive my entire life. I have never voted for a Republican, only Democrats, and have never supported a conservative issue. I voted for Elizabeth Warren in the primaries of the last election. Most of the gender critical women I know, or just the women questioning and concerned, are like me. Most don't speak out often because they don't want to be pilloried or have people associate them with the right-wing. They also don't want to align with the right's attacks on trans people.

It is simply not true that only Republicans or conservatives are questioning gender ideology and gender-affirming care.

If you didn't get this much right, I question how much else you got right in this response to Jamie Reed's article. I also wonder why you are attacking her as just "a desk job worker" instead of a medical professional. It's often people without power, lower in status, who are the whistleblowers in situations like this one.

I don't know anything about your background, but I'm curious to know if you have medical training? Does someone need to be a doctor or therapist to have a legitimate perspective on this issue? Because if you don't have that education yourself, then your criticism of Reed for not having that background doesn't make sense to me.