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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Webberly Vs Joyce

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CassOle · 10/11/2025 14:49

https://nitter.poast.org/mollylguinness/status/1987891680964493390#m

'Join us for the Times Radio Gender Debate at 9pm on 20th November @HJoyceGender debates @HelenWebberley, presented by @Jo_Coburn live on @TimesRadio and on our YouTube channel.'

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CarefulN0w · 24/11/2025 08:01

And on that note - I have just seen a tweet from Maya in which Mermaids are protesting about children being denied access to “life saving care”. For the sake of vulnerable children this must be challenged, surely?

https://x.com/mforstater/status/1992725034004304347?s=46&t=OD0tMok8rbGQj0XbFHZNfA

Maya Forstater (@MForstater) on X

Mermaids. At it again. There is no evidence that puberty blockers are "life-saving"

https://x.com/mforstater/status/1992725034004304347?s=46&t=OD0tMok8rbGQj0XbFHZNfA

JamieCannister · 24/11/2025 08:49

CarefulN0w · 24/11/2025 07:57

Helen Joyce said in the SM newsletter on Friday that she had been approached back in May to debate HW. It sounded like there had been some back and forth to agree a format and so I can only assume that HW refused any kind of interview where the terms were pre-defined and in which she was required to answer questions directly.

HJ and JB really did incredibly well to remain calm and continue to try to debate in the face of HW wiggling around like a toddler needing a wee.

The SEEN in journalism podcast over the weekend briefly covered the debates with Stephanie Davies-Arai and noted that HW had confirmed that she (and possibly other private providers) were going straight to cross sex hormones to get around the ban on puberty blockers.

This admission is significant. Yes it’s shocking, though not surprising, but it is something that can be acted on. Legal cases, judicial reviews and publicity - coordinated where possible, will make it a harder environment for these dodgy providers to act in.

"HW had confirmed that she (and possibly other private providers) were going straight to cross sex hormones to get around the ban on puberty blockers."

I disagree. I think that it would be true to say that "HW had confirmed that she (and possibly other private providers) were using alternative interventions that do not fall within the UK legal definition of puberty blockers to inhibit responsiveness to hormones and prevent a proper puberty, before then going to cross sex hormones, to get around the ban on puberty blockers."

WarriorN · 24/11/2025 08:52

The hyperbole in this whole thing is extreme and key to the whole charade.

when you learn to see it, it is true evil. As Bindel said.

WarriorN · 24/11/2025 08:54

miuri · 24/11/2025 07:37

I’d love to know what her income streams look like, how profitable this all is for her

yes this has been my thought too.

she has a team of 5 and a PR and a “new marketing person.” (recently new)

from the hodge-cast substack account of organising the Bindel debate

WarriorN · 24/11/2025 08:56

JamieCannister · 24/11/2025 06:39

#nodebate because #noargument was the TRA mantra for years.

It seems to me that Webberly's approach is #nodebate whilst sitting in a literal debate, using the methods of obfuscation, language games, distraction, bait and switch, dishonesty and disingenuousness.

If it's not an honest debate is it really a debate? Maybe it was a transdebate?

this is why I feels she’s had specific training or intensive prep on how to answer every single GC argument.

she actually contradicted herself many times in order to use fallacy based defense strategies

Coatsoff42 · 24/11/2025 09:18

I don’t know if this has already been mentioned but redditors are calling her company Gender ChatGPT, which is quite funny.
If they aren’t her fans, it’s hard to know who her fans would be.

WarriorN · 24/11/2025 10:11

Oh interesting!

i swear she’s used chat gtp to help her prep

ArabellaSaurus · 24/11/2025 15:40

From Andrew Gold's interview.

Webberly Vs Joyce
RobinEllacotStrike · 24/11/2025 18:14

I've watched all 3 HW interviews now - Joyce, Bindle, Gold.

HW is irredeemably, dangerously, & thoroughly bonkers.

Its incredible she is allowed anywhere near children.

Essentially she is a trained former medical doctor, who denies sex matters to us as humans at all, and very very very much hates how feminists are nasty to all the "lovely lovely men" when they insist on talking about & naming MVAWG.

Nothing must stand in the way of her ridiculous ideology.

She clearly is no longer a doctor, doesn't care how she comes across in these interviews as long as she can reach & fleece families/children looking for PB's.

impossibletoday · 24/11/2025 18:44

Julie Bindel's view..

x.com/bindelj/status/1993016709368906003?t=ivrCAzyaqI0KwYIiM2k54w&s=19

TempestTost · 24/11/2025 18:56

HildegardP · 23/11/2025 22:35

A good corrective to the idea that EBM brought losses to medical practice is Ben Goldacre's Bad Medicine. Whatever relational or intuitive prowess a Dr may or may not have, the absolute minimum we should expect of them is that they confine themselves to treatments that don't just exploit the placebo effect (the nocebo effect is just as real, after all) but can be shown to actually work.
If we don't do that then we're back to radium underpants.

I don't really think I agree with that.

It is important to understand the statistical basis of medical protocols.

But people are not just a disease, the human body is not something we understand as well as we'd like, and many things are not as well understood as we might like.

It's important to remember that in many cases, medical treatments have their origins in the observations of doctors dealing with real patients.

EBM is a great tool but it's not good when medicine becomes reduced to a number plugging exercise.

HildegardP · 24/11/2025 19:11

It is precisely because personal observation is inadequate that EBM is the better model.

SqueakyDinosaur · 24/11/2025 20:45

Ben Goldacre has gone awfully quiet about EBM over the last few years.

(He's on my shitlist, along with Adam Rutherford)

HildegardP · 24/11/2025 21:39

SqueakyDinosaur · 24/11/2025 20:45

Ben Goldacre has gone awfully quiet about EBM over the last few years.

(He's on my shitlist, along with Adam Rutherford)

Far from it, EBM is his dayjob. He's been working on the AllTrials project. I'll be very keen to see if the NHS GnRHa trial farrago is pre-registered.

teawamutu · 24/11/2025 21:48

SqueakyDinosaur · 24/11/2025 20:45

Ben Goldacre has gone awfully quiet about EBM over the last few years.

(He's on my shitlist, along with Adam Rutherford)

And mine. Fearless proponent of scientific truth, until it turns out that 'truth' isn't what naice people who read the Guardian approve of.

Loved his books until I realised what a cowardly twat he was.

ArabellaSaurus · 24/11/2025 22:15

HildegardP · 24/11/2025 21:39

Far from it, EBM is his dayjob. He's been working on the AllTrials project. I'll be very keen to see if the NHS GnRHa trial farrago is pre-registered.

Edited

https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN69296987

Here?

HildegardP · 24/11/2025 22:24

ArabellaSaurus · 24/11/2025 22:15

Maybe but I don't enable Java so can't see it.

ArabellaSaurus · 24/11/2025 22:48

https://archive.ph/4ONnU

HildegardP · 24/11/2025 22:51

Jesus wept, those are flabby objectives.

HildegardP · 24/11/2025 22:59

ArabellaSaurus · 24/11/2025 22:48

Sorry, so shocked I forgot to quote you. Where are the physical effects being measured? Why aren't they assessing cognitive function?

That's the kind of soggy-minded dross I'd expect from affirming clinicians in the mid-2010s. In 2025 it's indefensible.

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