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Biological sex is no longer accepted as a basic fact of life. It is forbidden to admit that female people sometimes need protection and privacy from male ones. In an analysis that is at once expert, sympathetic and urgent, Helen Joyce offers an antidote to the chaos and cancelling.

Shermer and Joyce discuss: What is a woman? What is a man? \\u2022 conflicting rights: trans vs. women \\u2022 sex vs. gender; who you identify as vs. who you are attracted to \\u2022 cross-sex identification \\u2022 gender dysphoria \\u2022 social contagions \\u2022 gender affirming care \\u2022 puberty blockers, testosterone, hormone treatment \\u2022 detransitioning \\u2022 top surgery, phalloplasty, vaginoplasty \\u2022 preferred pronouns: compelled speech \\u2260 free speech \\u2022 trans sports \\u2022 exclusive spaces, and more\\u2026

Helen Joyce is a senior staff journalist at The Economist, where she has held several positions, including Britain editor, Finance editor and International editor. Before joining The Economist in 2005 she edited Plus, an online magazine about mathematics published by the University of Cambridge. She has a PhD in mathematics from University College London. On Twitter, she is @HJoyceGender.