PODCAST: Helen Joyce on doing journalism in the gender identity era

Helen Joyce has been a staff journalist at The Economist since 2005 and is currently executive editor for The Economist’s events business. Previously, Helen edited the paper’s economics and finance section, and before that, the International section. Helen has a PhD in mathematics from University College London. She is currently writing a book about gender identity.

I spoke with her about the experience of covering the gender identity debate, female detransitioners, “thought-stopping cliches,” and the people who buy into all of it.

PODCAST: Helen Joyce on doing journalism in the gender identity era
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Meghan Murphy

Founder & Editor

Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, BC. She has been podcasting and writing about feminism since 2010 and has published work in numerous national and international publications, including The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, the CBC, New Statesman, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, and more. Meghan completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012 and is now exiled in Mexico with her very photogenic dog.