Joyce Activated

On Tuesday 19th July, Sex Matters launched a report on single-sex spaces at the House of Lords. This week I’m sharing my speaking notes for the event.

I’m writing about something a little different this week: a big change during the past decade in the way workplaces function. I’ve a lot to say about this, so this article is going to be split in two. The second instalment will be next week, or shortly after

Part 1 I’m starting to write this on Wednesday 6th July, just a couple of hours before Maya Forstater receives the judgment in her employment-tribunal case. Unusually for a first-instance hearing, she was given notice yesterday that the result is coming today, probably around 11am—normally the judgment just

This week I’m going to write about Matt Walsh’s new film, “What is a Woman?”, which I had intended to cover last week before being derailed. So I won’t do a full review, but instead simply say what I think I can add to an already rich discussion.

I’m sometimes asked why I don’t talk about people for whom transition was the best option. I give part of the answer in my book—that what I’m interested in isn’t trans people per se, it’s the notion that some men can “really be women” and vice versa, and its impact on society

Barrister Cathryn McGahey likened Allison Bailey’s sexual orientation—that of a female exclusively attracted to females—to the male sexism that holds women back in the workplace, and to the racism of the white supremacists who fought to sustain apartheid.

Bailey alleges that her chambers, Garden Court, together with the LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall, victimised her in various ways for her gender-critical beliefs, her lesbianism and her backing for the LGB Alliance, a new charity that focuses on advocacy for lesbian, gay and bisexual people...

From now on, most issues of this newsletter will go only to paid subscribers. I’m always astonished when people talk as if a very little child’s fantasy of being the opposite sex is something sui generis. Do these people know any children? If they do, they must be remarkably unobservant…