In this context, there is nothing particularly special about PP. the phenomenon/data we want to explain, and The Parsimony Principle (PP) comes into play when we consider the relationship between Will any prominent figure from the trans community step forward and take part in a good faith discussion? We have a beautiful venue, an engaged audience, Helen Joyce has generously agreed to still take part. Grace’s original instinct to reach out and talk was the right one it’s a loss for both communities that she was talked out of it. Instead it seems that voices within the trans community are so powerful that they are forbidding any discussion from taking place - and the result will surely be to increase alienation and lack of understanding. Perhaps naively, I had hoped that, once there in person, we would be able to find some common humanity and maybe even have a civil and productive conversation.
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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