Welcome to Beg to Bae to Differ, the Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring

civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, indicated columnist and policy editor of the Bullwork, and I am joined

by our regulars, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal,

Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center, and Damon Linker, who writes the sub-staffed newsletter Eyes on the Right.

Our special guest this week is Jesse Single, who writes

a sub-stack newsletter as well, called Single-minded, and Jesse is also the co-host of the podcast blocked and reported.

So thanks Jesse for joining us.

Thanks one and all for being here.

We have a lot to get to today.

I am particularly excited about the news on nuclear fusion, which we are going to get to.

But I am particularly pleased that Jesse is on.

I've followed your work for a a while and I have to say you have been incredibly

conscientious in reporting, you know, a fraud topic, namely, what's the best treatment for trans children you've

gotten deep into the science on this and you're one of the only people in journalism

who's had the courage to do it and you've been rewarded

with a lot of accusations of hatred and so on.

But I have followed you and I detect nothing but care and concern about getting it right.

So congratulations for the work you've done.

I'd like you to just give a quick walk-through of where we are because a number of European countries are sort of

of scaling back their approach to the gender affirmation model of treatment because they're concerned about

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