![]() ![]() ![]() One can only imagine the pressure applied on that “difficult” zoom call. She was so insistent that she wouldn’t cancel that she had offered £100 to each person who bet that she would - which she is now paying up. I would moderate, as someone who has no corner to fight in this discussion - Grace’s team found me to be “a great, steady moderating presence” in my YouTube interviews.Įven Grace Lavery, it would seem, who is a standard-bearer for her community, can be intimidated into silence by them. We managed to find a date, venue, format and title that both Helen and Grace were happy with. So we agreed to host the potentially difficult conversation. ![]() ![]() It was considered too fraught and too much of a risk that Grace would pull out.Īt UnHerd we believe it is important to talk about difficult topics - amazingly, this would seem to have been the first in-person discussion between a gender-critical feminist and a trans activist. Joyce agreed in theory - but nobody would host the event. She specifically invited The Economist’s Helen Joyce, author of Trans, to do so. As part of the promotion of her new book, Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis, about living as a transwoman since 2018, she had been offering to debate a “gender critical feminist”. Grace Lavery is a prominent trans activist and professor of Gender Studies at UC Berkeley in California. ![]()
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