TRANS - Biology or Ideology? with Helen Joyce - The Shape of Dialogue #23
About this episode
Helen Joyce is a journalist and was a staff writer for The Economist between 2005 and 2022. Helen held various leading positions at The Economist, including education editor, Brazil correspondent, International editor, Finance editor and Britain editor.
Helen's first book, "Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality," was published by OneWorld in July 2021. It was reissued in 2023 under the new title "Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights."
"Trans" was an immediate bestseller and was named by the Times, Spectator and Observer as one of their books of 2021.
Helen now campaigns for women's rights and works with the start-up human-rights organisation Sex Matters, which campaigns for clarity about the two sexes, male and female, in law and in life.
https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/
https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/trans-news-and-reviews/
https://www.amazon.com.au/TRANS-When-Ideology-Meets-Reality/dp/0861540492
https://sex-matters.org/
Music - Bach Mass in B Minor conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
https://open.spotify.com/album/3HdmIB3Wzcd7bFDdsgaIbp?si=dRMNyRieTLCTHMJfSBZ7mA
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