Joyce Activated

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…

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

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

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/

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