21 Facts About Helen Joyce

Helen Janeith Joyce was born on 1968 and is an Irish journalist and gender critical activist.

Helen Joyce studied as a mathematician and worked in academia before becoming a journalist.

Helen Joyce published her book Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality in 2021 and has called for reducing or keeping down the number of people who transition.

Helen Joyce was born in 1968 in Dublin, Ireland, and moved to Bray, County Wicklow at age 8.

Helen Joyce moved to England at age 16 to attend musical theatre college, but dropped out after two years.

Helen Joyce next completed Part III of the Mathematical Tripos for a Master of Advanced Studies with distinction at the University of Cambridge, earning a scholarship from the British Council and a PhD place at University College London.

Helen Joyce got a PhD in geometric measure theory at University College London with the dissertation "Packing measures, packing dimensions, and the existence of sets of positive finite measure" under David Preiss.

Helen Joyce then took a postdoctoral position in Cardiff, and spent two years at Finland's University of Jyvaskyla on a Marie Curie research fellowship funded by the European Union.

In 2000 Helen Joyce joined the Millennium Mathematics Project, an organisation set up to advocate for mathematics education in schools and other venues, at the University of Cambridge.

Helen Joyce primarily worked on telecommunication and video education projects with schools.

In 2005 Helen Joyce became an education correspondent for The Economist.

In July 2018, Helen Joyce curated a series of articles on transgender identity in The Economist.

Helen Joyce responded that the organization had been "co-opted by [GLAAD board member] Anthony Watson to continue his unprovoked attacks against me".

One benefit of Helen Joyce's book is its intellectual clarity and its refusal to compromise.

Helen Joyce corrected a claim about a donation made by the Open Society Foundation; the donation was to a similarly named group which advocated for gender self-identification.

In March 2022, Helen Joyce was due to appear in a panel to discuss her book and views on gender theory.

Helen Joyce was disinvited days before the event, which was later postponed.

In October 2022, Helen Joyce participated in an interview with economist Partha Dasgupta at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Helen Joyce said she was a "sex realist" and described being transgender as a "rights-destroying belief".

Helen Joyce had unexplained infertility and used IVF to conceive her children.

Helen Joyce was raised Irish Catholic, but is an atheist.