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Trans ideology is now in all state schools and most private ones in america, here in australia, in canada. Most as will insist that you put your pronouns in your bio or your email signature. They'll allow people to use the opposite sex bathrooms if they say they're members of the opposite sex. That's not something that it's going to be easy to wind back. You've got to use what you whas what you still have when they've overwritten sex bace rights. Youve got to use free speech. You'vegot to use lawsuits. I not necessarily in sewing, but in lawsuits. The mat walsh film help, even though i think he

Biological sex is no longer accepted as a basic fact of life. It is forbidden to admit that female people sometimes need protection and privacy from male ones. In an analysis that is at once expert, sympathetic and urgent, Helen Joyce offers an antidote to the chaos and cancelling.

Shermer and Joyce discuss: What is a woman? What is a man? • conflicting rights: trans vs. women • sex vs. gender; who you identify as vs. who you are attracted to • cross-sex identification • gender dysphoria • social contagions • gender affirming care • puberty blockers, testosterone, hormone treatment • detransitioning • top surgery, phalloplasty, vaginoplasty • preferred pronouns: compelled speech ≠ free speech • trans sports • exclusive spaces, and more…

Helen Joyce is a senior staff journalist at The Economist, where she has held several positions, including Britain editor, Finance editor and International editor. Before joining The Economist in 2005 she edited Plus, an online magazine about mathematics published by the University of Cambridge. She has a PhD in mathematics from University College London. On Twitter, she is @HJoyceGender.