Helen Joyce’s Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality has been chosen by The Times as one of their 25 best non-fiction books of the 21^st century.

The Times article commented that ‘When this was published in 2021, arguments over trans rights were at fever pitch and trans activists were winning the fight, largely because the public had been misled into thinking it was a fight for gay rights 2.0. Helen Joyce — then a journalist at The Economist — cut through all the guff with this excellent summary of what gender ideology means in practice and the danger it poses to women and children. She showed exactly how this once niche academic theory had taken on a bizarre cultish following and infiltrated every manner of public life, from medicine to law to politics. And this book was a big factor in calming the craze.’

Trans was published in 2021 by Oneworld, and was a Sunday Times bestseller as well as a Times, Spectator and Observer Book of the Year.