Helen Joyce

Irish journalist and author

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February 2025 Joyce spoke at an event at Balliol College, Oxford, discussing her views on transgender issues, sex, and gender, which resulted in a walkout by pro-trans protesters and a petition signed by over 600 people protesting 'transphobia'.
May 2024 Launched H2Org with Rabbi Harvey Belovski, a venture aimed at inspiring and supporting personal growth and success.
2023 Joyce's book 'Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality' was shortlisted for the John Maddox Prize.
2022 Took a one-year unpaid sabbatical from The Economist to join Sex Matters as a director, which she later made a permanent role.
October 2022 Joyce participated in an interview at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, titled 'Criticising gender-identity ideology: what happens when speech is silenced', which was protested by demonstrators.
June 2022 In a PinkNews report, Joyce was quoted speaking against transgender transitions, stating that 'every one of those people is a person who's been damaged'.
March 2022 Joyce was disinvited from a panel discussion for trainee child psychiatrists organized by Great Ormond Street Hospital and Health Education England due to allegations against her.
July 2021 Joyce's book 'Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality' was published by Oneworld Publications, debuting at number 7 on The Sunday Times bestseller list and being named one of the year's best books by The Times.
March 2020 Became executive editor for events business at The Economist.
December 2018 Joyce wrote the article 'The New Patriarchy: How Trans Radicalism Hurts Women, Children—and Trans People Themselves' for Quillette, which was described as 'alarming' by GLAAD.
July 2018 Helen Joyce curated a series of articles on transgender identity in The Economist.
2013 Completed her tenure as The Economist's Brazil bureau chief.
August 2010 Moved to São Paulo to become The Economist's Brazil bureau chief.

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