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Helen Joyce    

Journalist & Author of "Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality"

Helen Joyce is author of “TRANS: When Ideology Meets Reality”, published in July 2021 by OneWorld. A Times of London and Spectator book of the year, it is a UK and Amazon top ten bestseller. It received rave reviews in publications ranging from the Telegraph to the New York Times, and endorsements from, among others, Daniel Dennett (“A sane, humane book”), Lionel Shriver (“ Utterly unintimidated by extremist orthodoxy”) and Richard Dawkins (“Thoroughly researched, passionat and very brave”).

Joyce is The Economist’s Britain editor. She joined the paper in 2005 as education correspondent; subsequent jobs include Brazil correspondent (based in São Paulo), International editor, finance editor and executive editor for events. Before that she edited Plus, an online magazine about maths published by the University of Cambridge and was founding editor for the Royal Statistical Society’s magazine, Significance. She has a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College Dublin, a Master’s from Cambridge and a PhD from University College London, all in mathematics.

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