The American Style of Feminism

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i'm a sex realist in the sense that i understand that evolution worked on the whole caboodle. It's all one go. I except that men and women are different in every cell. Not very different in men in some ways, and very different in others. But i feel that's consequential for women. Yes, for sure. Andkno: Is it possible that some of these people just feel, i wanto get out there? I'm going to be martin luther king. They were happy to kick quack doctors who won't say a word about it. Now they're doing much worse,. There's no such thing as 'theocratic' anymore. You can

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.