Is anyone aware of this book?

[Pudmyboy]

Looked for it on another thread but couldn't see one, but there are a lot of threads to check!
Looks interesting.
It appeared in Yahoo News which was pleasantly surprising:
Mon, 12 July 2021, 12:31 pm

I think it comes out this week. Filia has a new podcast out with her:

Dr Helen Joyce, author, journalist and editor at The Economist, joins the FiLiA podcast to discuss her newly-released book Trans. An in-depth exploration of the phenomenon of gender identity theory, Helen writes about how these ideas impact our ability to speak about biological sex and what these developments mean for society.

Helen's work outlines how ideas that privilege subjective feelings of personal gender identity over objective definitions of sex are logically nonsensical, with implications that cause damage to children, erode the rights of women & girls, and make homosexuality once again taboo.

Helen highlights the importance of hearing the stories of detransitioners, the ethical duties of a journalist and whether the misogyny and homophobia we see in some aspects of gender identity activism might be a feature, not a bug.

filia.org.uk/latest-news/2021/7/12/helen-joyce-on-trans?fbclid=IwAR0sVT3iKpDxoH4_VATvL9adf4jHC9Qc90e4rdl-bBtjhI6-zs7bjXgfEjA

And I think it's being serialised by the Mail, if anyone wants to look on their site

I have it on pre-order

If you're a Premium subscriber MNHQ are doing a webchat with Helen later on in July.

My copy arrived today and I'm already nearly half way through. It's brilliant.

WPUK has a discussion about it on Tuesday night, July 13.

And Sex Matters is doing one for super supporters July 20.

I hope Helen Joyce attracts a broad readership as she's written about the complexities of this issue with superb clarity.

It is published on 15 July.

@terfypants

My copy arrived today and I'm already nearly half way through. It's brilliant.

Ooh. Mine's on preorder. Maybe I'll also get it a day or two early. Kathleen Stock's book arrived a couple of days before official launch. Maybe this one will too. I'm really looking forward to it. I've always found Helen Joyce to be an exceptionally sharp and clear writer.

She is an economist so we will be spared the waffle and psycho babble . I might get an extra copy for my local school head mistress.

The WPUK event still has spaces

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-womans-place-is-keeping-it-real-tickets-157930619735?fbclid=IwAR1NeU469u4YkgBHVR11Xx8anZjPqr94nYTR2RWkWTu07XQUJUFLafG4rMA

She is an economist so we will be spared the waffle and psycho babble.

Like hell she is. She's a mathematician. Even better. She just works for the Economist, doing economicky things.

(Economists are full of a different sort of waffle and psychobabble, IMO as a fellow mathematician.)

Thought you'd like to know, mn gets several positive mentions in the last chapter:

"In any list of the UK's advantages, though, Mumsnet takes pride of place."

I've preordered it. Looking forward to reading it when it arrives.

@Novina

Thought you'd like to know, mn gets several positive mentions in the last chapter:

"In any list of the UK's advantages, though, Mumsnet takes pride of place."

The nest of vipers as a beacon for reality based thinking (I hope).

proud

Perhaps that’s why they’ve corralled us all into a new topic, ready to split it off when it swells with the influx of newly aware visitors.