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  • When Ideology Meets Reality
  • Written by: Helen Joyce
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  • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (75 ratings)

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Written by: Helen Joyce
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The instant Sunday Times best seller

"An intelligent, thorough rejoinder to an idea that has swept across much of the liberal world seemingly overnight. Even those outraged by Joyce’s positions would benefit from understanding them.... Open conversation about such fraught issues is the only realistic path forward." (Jesse Singal, The New York Times)

"This rigorous and brave book nails the absurd idea that sex is just a 'social construct'." (David Aaronovitch, The Times)

Gender identity ideology is about more than Twitter storms and using the right pronouns. In just 10 years, laws, company policies, school and university curricula, sport, medical protocols, and the media have been reshaped to privilege self-declared gender identity over biological sex.

People are being shamed and silenced for attempting to understand the consequences of redefining "man" and "woman". While compassion for transgender lives is well-intentioned, it is stifling much-needed inquiry into the significance of our bodies.

If we recommit to our liberal values of freedom of belief, freedom of speech, and robust debate, we scan de-escalate this most vicious of culture wars.

©2021 Helen Joyce (P)2021 Oneworld Publications

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"An intelligent, thorough rejoinder to an idea that has swept across much of the liberal world seemingly overnight. Even those outraged by Joyce’s positions would benefit from understanding them.... Open conversation about such fraught issues is the only realistic path forward." (Jesse Singal, The New York Times)

"This rigorous and brave book nails the absurd idea that sex is just a 'social construct'." (David Aaronovitch, The Times)

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excellent assessment

Joyce has amazing working breaking down gender ideology, and it's flaws and how we need to understand the ideology, it's impacts on women, homosexuals and children and ideas on some kind of coexistence.

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important

very well researched and delivered, important information for people trying to understand the "gender" landscape

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Amazingly researched, brilliantly put

Excellent performance by author. I'm currently on my second listen. The world needs this book.

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a must read.

Helen's voice is so lovely- I would live to have her read all my books. this book is so well done, it is thoughtful and thought provoking.

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Compelling narrative

Excellent and well-researched. I highly recommend to anyone interested in women's rights and free speech.

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One of the most important books of the 21 century.

As a lifelong left-leaning liberal, I’ve always had a a lot of questions regarding this issue. All of which are never covered on the mainstream media. This book gives a well researched look into this topic.

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must read

The author highlights the problems with trains ideology. A must-read if you ever need to know why you or anyone cares that a woman is an adult human female and not someone who simply says they are a woman.

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Incredibly complete, well researched and relevant

A must read. How good it feels to hear good sense rather than hate and propaganda. This read has helped me push my understanding of this issue much further than I was.

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Amazing!!!

I knew there was something I didn’t like about the conflation of sex and gender and Helen captures it so beautifully! I can’t believe the level of infiltration that the activists have had on forcing ideas into law! This book made me realize that I need to voice this gender identity issue more often so as to drag what is being hidden into the light! Women just have to win this battle!

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A tremendously thoughtful and thorough explanation of trans rights movement

This book was a breath of fresh air. All the gas lighting women face in encouraging us to pretend that males can turn into females has been overwhelming and this book helps me feel less crazy for my belief that biological sex is real and immutable.

It gives eye opening facts and statistics about how insidious the TRM really is and how it harms not only biological women but the trans people it claims to champion. Can’t recommend it enough.

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