Hard lessons in life

The spread of victimhood culture has helped popularise novel gender identities and sexual orientations by allowing people to claim to be oppressed without suffering any hardship

Helen Joyce

BEING INVITED TO TALK AT A CONFERENCE for psychoanalysts in London last month was not, on the face of it, a surprise. The topic was trans identification in children; I’ve written a book on this and other trans-related issues. What was surprising, given the transactivist tactic of demanding “no debate”, was that the event went ahead as planned. My refusal to agree that men who identify as women thereby become women means that when I’m invited to speak, there’s usually trouble. Last March I was asked to present at a conference for NHS psychiatrists — and disinvited after a smear campaign. The conference was eventually cancelled. When philosopher Arif Ahmed asked me to speak at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge in October, the college master emailed fellows and students describing me…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2023

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