Welcome to Liberty Law Talk. Please visit us at lawliberty. With me today are Maya Forstater and Helen Joyce. Hello, hello. The common theme here is Sex Matters. Helen, what does Sex Matters do both in the UK and elsewhere? And we think that the underlying arguments are really applicable across the world.
It really is quite extraordinary. How did you personally become involved in Sex Matters? What made you choose it rather than continuing with The Economist? Well, I stumbled upon this extraordinary story about five years ago.
Up until then, I had seen trans issues just out of the corner of my eye, and I thought that this was just a legal fiction and accommodation for a very tiny number of people who were very psychologically unusual, who needed to be allowed to move around the world as if they were members of the opposite sex.
And then, just because I was asked by a commissioning editor to look at it, I realized that much more than that was happening. In fact, we were looking at the destruction of the categories of sex in law and that this had really dire effects in all sorts of ways. So I wrote about it. I received the backlash that anyone who talks about this publicly does.
That only made me more determined. And I ended up writing a book, which came out about two years ago now, and I thought the book was going to get it out of my system and that I could just go back to… I was Finance Editor at the time. I was writing a book at The Economist , that I could just go back to ordinary life having, to my own satisfaction, established that sex is indeed binary and immutable, and that does indeed matter.
