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Helen Joyce: Trans ideology, Gender identity, Dysphoria, Gender affirming care, School curriculums, and what it's all about. Ep. 39.
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Helen Joyce is an Irish journalist and a critic of trans ideology. She studied as a mathematician and worked in academia before becoming a journalist. From 2005 to 2022 she was a staff writer for The Economist, where she held a variety of jobs including education editor, Brazil correspondent (based in São Paulo), International editor, Finance editor and Britain editor.
She published her book Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality in 2021. It was reissued in 2023 under a new title: “Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women’s Rights”.
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Chapters:
00:00 Helens background at The Economist, and as a mathematician, turned journalist.
06:30 Commonalities between mathematics and journalism in their search for truth and evidence?
09:49 Why did you write the book «Trans - Gender identity and the new battle for women’s rights»?
12:15 Trans is a godless neo-religion
16:16 We didn’t evolve to be right. We evolved to survive and reproduce.
21:24 The transcendental part of trans
22:10 Were you brave for writing the book?
27:23 The reception of the book. Threats? Hate? Cancellation?
33:28 Are publications afraid of loosing advertisers?
36:32 What is this all about?
41:39 Data shows that 90% stop feeling dysphoric
45:36 The doctors don’t really want to know the long term results.
47:07 Gender correcting surgery is the lobotomy of our time, and proof that it’s an ideology.
49:15 Diane Ehrensaft, a professor of pediatrics California: Kids down to age 3 should start gender affirming care.
56:09 Combining medical and legal meticulousness with new age surgery based on ideology.
01:02:11 What’s the deepest source of all this madness?
01:11:31 In Norway the therapist will no longer be allowed to question the patients idea of being in the wrong gender.
01:15:29 Gender is older than trees. 1.2 Billion years old. Hostility to categories.
01:20:19 Is this an opposition to God? God created humans in his image, to male and female He created them.
01:23:13 The paradox of gender ideology making the categories of gender even more narrow.
01:26:11 Schoolbooks i Norway, and gender ideology pushed onto kids from early on.
01:31:09 Jordan Peterson: «There’s no difference between thinking about yourself all the time, and being miserable.»
01:34:37 No doctor would say «yes, you are too fat» to a kid with anorexia.
01:37:48 Doctors give parents impossible ultimatums. And parents loose custody of their kids for not complying to gender surgery.
01:39:47 School curriculums on gender ideology.
01:45:29 Drag shows in kindergarten.
01:48:34 The term Gender Identity.
01:49:42 Bill C-16 in Canada, and compelled speech.
01:56:47 What is identity?
02:04:51 Helen’s road ahead
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