Joyce Activated

With the press regulator Ipso in the news, I take the opportunity to dissect my failed attempt to get it to stop pandering to trans-identifying criminals and take victims seriously.

This week I tell the story of one of the more irritating and nasty things that has happened to me in 2024.

I’m in Berlin today, at the protest outside the Bundestag against the new gender self-ID law that has just come into force. Around the world women are protesting outside German embassies; I accepted an invitation from the organisers in Germany to come and speak.

I’ll be interviewing Richard Dawkins on-stage next month; what do you think I should ask him? Plus: what went down at the LGBA conference and Battle of Ideas.

In this issue I share the speaking notes for my presentation at last weekend’s Genspect conference in Lisbon. My topic was: What Will It Take to Return to Reality?

Tomorrow I’m off to the Genspect conference in Lisbon – I’ll be sharing my speaking notes here afterwards. In the meantime, here are some reflections on why the number of applications for GRCs has risen sharply.

How can we get through to elected representatives who seem to believe transactivist falsehoods?

In this issue I dive deep into DSDs, especially 5-ARD, the condition Caster Semenya has, and which Olympic boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting are thought to have too.

Why free speech is the friend, not the enemy, of vulnerable minorities; plus – of course – male boxing smashing women in the head and getting rewarded with gold medals.

What can the newly founded SEENs (Sex Equality and Equity Networks) learn from the history of workplace affinity groups?