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“Helen Joyce and Maya Forstater join host Helen Dale to discuss transgender activism, civil rights law, and Forstater’s recent discrimination lawsuit.

Brian Smith:

Welcome to Liberty Law Talk. This podcast is a production of the online journal Law & Liberty and hosted by our staff. Please visit us at lawliberty.org, and thank you for listening.

Helen Dale:

Hello, my name is Helen Dale, and I’m Senior Writer at Law & Liberty. With me today are Maya Forstater and Helen Joyce. Maya is the Executive Director and co-founder of the UK lobby group Sex Matters. Helen Joyce, formerly of The Economist, is the author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality. She also works at Sex Matters, where she’s Director of Advocacy. It’s fair to say both Helen and Maya have quite extraordinary stories, which are best told in their own words rather than in summary form by a radio broadcaster. So, to that end, let’s get started.”

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen Dale is Senior Writer at Law & Liberty, a publication of Liberty Fund. She won the Miles Franklin Award for her first novel, The Hand that Signed the Paper, and read law at Oxford and Edinburgh. Her most recent novel, Kingdom of the Wicked, was shortlisted for the Prometheus Prize for science fiction. She writes for various outlets, including The Spectator, The Australian, Standpoint, and Quillette. She lives in London, is on Substack at www.notonyourteam.co.uk, and on TwitterX @_HelenDale
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen Joyce is Director of Advocacy for Sex Matters, a non-profit that campaigns for sex-based rights. From 2005 until April 2022, she served as a staff journalist at The Economist, most recently as the paper’s British editor. She is author of TRANS: When Ideology Meets Reality, published in 2021 by OneWorld. A Times of London and Spectator book of the year, TRANS is a UK and Amazon top ten bestseller.
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