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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

E355. They're Sterilizing Gay Kids - Helen Joyce

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Original Air Date - 10/19/23 Revisit a Walk-Ins Welcome classic Helen Joyce, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, sits down with Bridget for an in-depth conversation about the trans activist movement, what inspired her to write the book, what's changed since the book came out in 2021, the bullshit idea that everything can be blamed on feminism, the detransitioners she's met, and how the trans movement is sending women’s rights back to the dark ages. They discuss the sense that women ...

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0:00.0

I am with the great Helen Joyce, everybody.

0:02.8

Welcome to Walkins, welcome.

0:05.3

Oh, thank you for having me on.

0:06.8

I feel like it's so overdue.

0:08.6

And I'm actually grateful that we have,

0:12.2

there's been time in between when I first got your book and now,

0:16.5

because my biggest question to you,

0:19.5

you wrote this book, Trans, in 2021, it came out, correct?

0:24.1

My first question...

0:25.1

Yeah, my first question, I have many questions.

0:28.6

But my first question is, what has changed since you wrote that book?

0:33.6

So I guess you mean in the culture at large, rather than in my life.

0:36.6

Yeah, I mean, what do you see in the trends?

0:40.1

What did you, do you feel like you perhaps, what surprised you perhaps?

0:44.4

What's something you maybe predicted?

0:47.4

Is it going as you kind of foresaw?

0:51.6

So I think for the first year, yes, it did.

0:54.1

So I made some the first year, yes, it did.

0:58.4

So I made some predictions in the book.

1:03.1

And there were also some stories that I had to leave aside because they weren't finished.

1:05.6

You know, there were court cases that were open or whatever.

1:10.0

And then when the paperback came out, which was sort of, I think roughly a year later,

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