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Helen Joyce
Personal blog · thehelenjoyce.compoliticsculture
Helen Joyce's personal blog at thehelenjoyce.com covers politics and culture. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Helen Joyce's blog for her rebuttals to claims about girls questioning gender identity and to claims made in a book about trans advocacy. The comments point readers to these responses.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I’m a journalist, women’s rights campaigner and author of “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality”. “Incisive, compassionate and nuanced” – Louise Perry; “Utterly unintimidated by extremist orthodoxy” – Lionel Shriver; “A sane, humane book” – Daniel Dennett. Click to read Helen Joyce, a Substack publica
What Hacker News says?
If you haven't already, please educate yourself with Joyce's rebuttals of these false claims: https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/a-wild-ride
Comment linking /a-wild-ride
on “'An explosion': what's behind a rise in girls questioning their gender identity?”Submitted What I've learned since discovering my name in a record of "criminal harassment" as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> For example, the book you are recommending makes a thinly veilded point that "promoters of trans ideology" are rich jewish men, key figure among them being George Soros. This is untrue. Please read the author's response to this false allegation: https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/p/a-wild-ride .
Comment linking /p/a-wild-ride
on “Statue of a man blinded by a flag put up by Banksy in central London”