The motive force behind transactivism • Young women are the foot soldiers, but men driven by an erotic fixation created this movement
Posts by Helen Joyce
The TERF Island playbook • My talk at the Wicklow Women For Women conference in Dublin, 7th March 2026
Maria Kelly: another disgraceful ET ruling • Sandie Peggie dominated the headlines but the Kelly judgment is just as bad
The Peggie judgment: an unholy mess • Just how can an employment tribunal produce something so muddled and wrongheaded?
Post-match reflections on Webberley • What I learned from my and other people’s appearances with the owner of GenderGP
A month in the Antipodes • A roundup of interviews from my speaking tour in Australia and New Zealand
Why gender medicine isn’t science, and isn’t medicine, Part 3 • My keynote at the CASC conference in Adelaide, 18th October 2025
Why gender medicine isn’t science, and isn’t medicine, Part 1 • My keynote at the CASC conference in Adelaide, 18th October 2025
From the archives: Fic and trans identities • The fan fiction girls and young women write and read is part of the social contagion
On being “hateful” • What I’ve learned since discovering my name in a record of “criminal harassment”
Being targeted by Lynsay Watson • The disgraced trans-identifying ex-cop weaponising the justice system
From Berlin, as Germany brings in self-ID • A despatch from last November’s protest outside the Bundestag
Reflections on male cheerleaders • Why people pretend not to know what it means to dance like a girl
What do Generation Revolution really think? • Now that the dust is starting to settle on the FWS Supreme Court judgment, I’m thinking more about public opinion - especially among the young.
The case for recording sex • On Monday I spoke at an event at KCL to mark the launch of Robert Wintemute’s book about conflicts between women’s rights and trans rights, as part of a panel discussion about whether states should stop recording “sex/ gender” at all.