The US Media is Painfully Behind the UK When it Comes to Sex and Gender

Well done and congratulations to Helen Joyce!

May 14, 2025

First, recently I did an hour-long interview with Matt Osborne at The Distance about the leftist objections to “gender identity.” Because the title of my 2023 book is The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls, he titled it, “Democrats Must Face Their Reckoning With Kara Dansky.” He has now published it for paid subscribers and it’s available here.

Second, if you need a laugh, here’s an excellent piece from The Onion, which has been toiling away, unable to come up with anything resembling humorous satire for the past few years, given the wild world in which we live.

However, this post is about the media.

Earlier today, Sex Matters Director of Advocacy Helen Joyce went on the BBC’s Woman’s Hour program to discuss the April 16 UK Supreme Court judgment defining the words “sex” and “woman” biologically (and accurately) under the UK’s Equality Act.

The interview is a master class in how to handle dodgy interviewers who don’t like it when women stand up for women’s sex-based rights, and worth all 17 minutes.

The BBC has been ignoring women who fight for women’s sex-based rights for years.

That Spectator piece begins:

‘For the record, I knocked two out. One woman’s skull was fractured, the other not. And just so you know, I enjoyed it. See, I love smacking up Terfs in the cage.’

Can someone who says such things be considered a respectable commentator on women’s rights and interests? I suspect that most people who glory in battering women would struggle to get a hearing in national conversation on such topics, much less a slot on Radio Four. Yet this week the author of that quote, Fallon Fox, was invited on to the Today programme to talk about women’s sport and trans women’s right to participate in it.

Fallon Fox has been beating up women in MMA rings for years. The woman he referred to in that quote is Tamika Brents and he did indeed break her skull.

In contrast, the BBC has not been ignoring drag queens. To the contrary:

UK women’s rights campaigner Kellie Jay-Keen once told me that the Brits often joke that nothing is ever reported in the UK until the BBC asks a drag queen what he thinks about it.

The fact that the BBC interviewed Helen at all is a minor miracle, and the interview is truly masterful. Congratulations, Helen!

Things stateside are a bit more grim. Read on to learn more about the US media’s seeming inability to be even slightly candid about women’s sex-based rights.

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