Dr H Joyce

Joyce activated audio, issue 4

A short post—the last before I go behind the paywall. By popular demand (well, a subscriber suggested it), I’ll be recording audio versions of my posts from now on and uploading them to Soundcloud, where they’ll live for about a month until I rotate them out. In

Joyce Activated, issue 4

From this point on most issues of this newsletter will be subscriber-only. If you sign up in the coming days for a full year I’ll send you a signed copy of my paperback! (If you’re outside the UK, we’ll have to discuss postage.) It’s due out

Joyce Activated, issue 3

One of the most vexed questions for all of us writing about the sex’n’gender mess is that of “preferred pronouns”. Media guides from trans lobby groups and official regulators like IPSO [https://www.ipso.co.uk/media/1275/guidance_transgender-reporting.pdf]—and also, unfortunately, the internal style guides

Joyce Activated, Issue 2

I feel I owe it to my new subscribers to talk a bit about The Lunch. If you haven’t read the pieces by Julie Bindel [https://unherd.com/2022/04/jk-rowling-and-the-lunch-of-secrets/] and Suzanne Moore, you definitely should—and also the op-ed by Janice Turner [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/

Joyce Activated, Issue 1

My road to writing about trans ideology has been long and winding. In my 20s I took a B.A. in mathematics from Trinity College Dublin, and earned a distinction in Part III Mathematics from Cambridge. I went on to gain a PhD in mathematics from University College London (my

A rebuttal, July 2021

I’m writing this nearly two weeks since my book, “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality” [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trans-When-Ideology-Meets-Reality/dp/0861540492/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2WP2C9W0VZG38&dchild=1&keywords=trans+helen+joyce&qid=1614105170&sprefix=trans+helen%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-1] was

What is a woman?

A loose, shifting constellation of biological, political and cultural phenomena which varies according to context, place & time (Shon Faye, British transwoman and activist) Someone who “experiences the norms that are associated with women in her social context as relevant to her” (Katharine Jenkins, British philosopher) People who want to

Welcome

The picture above is a detail from a photograph I took of protesters outside the WPUK Women’s Liberation 2020 conference at University College London in January. Their signs made a jolly and colourful welcome for a bunch of joyful, excited feminists meeting to talk about our rights, 50 years