) The humble platypus being the most infamous one as it caused a minor ruckus in science when they famously couldn’t figure out how to classify it. Have you spotted the glaring error yet? That’s right, there are many mammals who do not grow their young inside of them and do infact lay eggs ( there are also many live bearing animals who aren’t mammals. Mammals - animals like humans that grow their young inside them, rather than laying eggs - date back 210 million years Sexual dimorphism - the two sexes, male and female - first appeared on Earth 1.2 billion years ago. Underlying my objections to gender self-identification is a scientific fact: that biological sex has an objective basis lacked by other socially salient categories, such as race and nationality. So let me share with you a quick excerpt from the book’s introduction There are two quotes on the front cover, one by Jenni Murray which reads “A courageous, intelligent and important work, rooted in good science and common sense.” The second is by Richard Dawkins and reads: “Frighteningly necessary, thoroughly researched, passionate and very brave”. Its a white back ground with black vertical text reading TRANS and the subtitle horizontally underneath it, centred at the bottom of the page. The cover for Helen Joyce’s “TRANS: When ideology meets reality”.

Both of which will become hilarious in a moment. Another quote by Jenni Murray claims the book contains “good science”. What I am here to do is crack a few jokes at the expense of both Helen Joyce and Richard Dawkins, who is quoted on the cover of the book claiming its “thoroughly researched”. I’m not here to review the whole book, I am definitely not paid enough for that. It’s utterly ridiculous shit from someone whose convinced themselves that their utterly ridiculous position is noble and good, actually. There’s been so much drama, there’s been accusations of antisemitism, threats of lawsuits and every day someone posts a new page of it and I can see why. This book has had trans Twitter absolutely buzzing to be honest. Ps this article is not about Helen Joyce, its about platypus.

The book is titled “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality” and is almost entirely about transgender people throughout. So Helen Joyce has written a book which states in its introduction “this book is not about trans people”. The surviving eggs hatch into more bunnies and the circle of life continues.

As we know from science, once a year around March the bunnies all come out and lay their eggs, which human children hunt down for precious chocolatey protein. A photo of Helen Joyce wearing a shirt that has a pattern of bunny rabbits on it.

Trans by Helen Joyce