What we can learn about Helen Joyce in two sentences

A young white woman making an "ewww" face and throwing both hands up.

That second paragraph on the book jacket of ‘Trans’. Whose feelings matter? It’s a premise of Helen Joyce’s book ‘Trans’ that cisgender people’s feelings matter the most. It’s right there on the book jacket.

I’m disappointed in the ‘Witch Trials’

witch on a broomstick flies by a huge full moon

J.K. Rowling’s image-polishing podcast doesn’t grapple with the real problem. When someone accuses Rowling of transphobia, her team’s refrain is: When has she ever been transphobic? At this point, I hear it as a running joke.

The misrepresentation of compassion and solidarity

A woman writing the word Don't in red lipstick on a window

No, J. K. Rowling’s 2020 blog post wasn’t compassionate to trans people. ‘Gender critical’ ideology typically promotes hostility and ignorance. GC, of course, claims to be kind to trans people. But that’s disinformation.