Is There a Man in a Woman's Space?

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The two most common male sex crimes are voarism and flashing, looking at women naked. Women and men feel very differently about those things for sound evolutionary reasons. A man in a woman's space is a man who has already shown that he's willing to transgress women's boundaries. That's not a safe man. And i really think the fewer people believe it the better. The're women only aces. They need them. These are essential for women to move and act in the world. Some women say, whell, i wouldn't mind. And i'm let ye, fine. Use the mixex spaces. There are women here who are moslim, who are orthodox jew

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.