I'm a Woman, but I Don't Want to Be Sexy

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There's a disturbing trend recently among teen aged girls to fetishize being a gay man. This is the feminine equivalent of the fetishizing that you see among some men about what it would be like to be a woman. It's inexplicable to me that anyone's listening to this and thinking, oh, that makes you a woman. I jus, i just feel them all th know, you wouldn't. No woman does that. So if you live that words make reality, then you must believe that silencing people who are saying the wrong words is a good and moral thing to do. The most successful cults involve keeping the new believer away from other people in their particular family. They

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.