Joan Smith

Joan Smith is a novelist and columnist. She has been Chair of the Mayor of London's Violence Against Women and Girls Board since 2013. Her book Homegrown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists was published in 2019.

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Joan Smith is a novelist and columnist. She has been Chair of the Mayor of London's Violence Against Women and Girls Board since 2013. Her book Homegrown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists was published in 2019.

The SNP’s fight over gender reform is going to court

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

The Financial Times is ticking boxes to win over female readers

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Rishi Sunak is flip-flopping on gender transition in schools

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

The NHS doesn’t need to be an ‘LGBTQ+ ally’

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Green Party’s trans court case is a sign of things to come

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Who is Humza Yousaf to talk about ‘toxic masculinity’?

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Why did Mhairi Black compare feminists to white supremacists?

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Costa’s trans mastectomy advert is an insult to women

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Police Scotland stands by as gender-critical feminist is attacked

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

The Tory civil war over gender advice in schools

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Calls for violence in the trans debate only come from one side

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

LGB Alliance’s victory is another loss for gender ideology

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Rapist Isla Bryson complains of ‘transphobic abuse’ in prison

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Girls assaulted in gender-neutral toilets — as predicted

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Feminist wins harassment case against Arts Council England

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Paris Lees doesn’t know what it feels like for a girl

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Why I resigned from Humanists UK

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Labour MSP silenced for the duration of Pride Month

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Keir Starmer stays silent after Rishi Sunak defends Kathleen Stock

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

British Cycling’s trans ruling isn’t ‘furthering genocide’

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Baroness Falkner is right to stand up to gender ideology

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Finally, the BBC gets a sex attacker’s pronouns right

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Andrea Long Chu’s Pulitzer win is an insult to women

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Joanna Cherry highlights the SNP’s free speech problem

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Lia Thomas offers a lesson in feminism

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Decoded: The New York Times’s language on trans

BY Joan Smith / 3 mins

Humza Yousaf doubles down on gender reform bill

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Keir Starmer is still confused about biological sex

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Scottish result spells gender trouble for Keir Starmer

BY Joan Smith / 3 mins

Keir Starmer is (still) equivocating on women’s rights

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Joe Biden should listen to the BMJ on trans guidance

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Even Eddie Izzard hesitates on Scotland’s gender bill

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Why are trans activists trying to cancel a ‘silencing women’ event?

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Humza Yousaf is Nicola Sturgeon in disguise

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

The Onion’s J.K. Rowling ‘interview’ isn’t satire

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Don’t blame J.K. Rowling for Brianna Ghey’s death

BY Joan Smith / 3 mins

Why is Wales copying Scotland’s gender self-ID blunder?

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Starmer isn’t working for women

BY Joan Smith / 5 mins

Why can’t the media get the Clydebank rapist’s pronouns right?

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Politicians are mysteriously blind to trans activists’ misogyny

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Why wasn’t PC David Carrick sacked?

BY Joan Smith / 6 mins

The Brits go ‘gender-neutral’ and women disappear

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Scotland’s gender reforms will spark a constitutional crisis

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

The NHS is betraying women over same-sex care

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

New York Times claims Louisa May Alcott was trans

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Scotland’s gender reform is a vote against reality

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Sex not limited to biological sex, Scottish court rules

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Goodbye Eddie Izzard — and good riddance

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Emily Bridges’s wild claims go unchallenged on ITV

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Will Nicola Sturgeon listen to detransitioners?

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

The New York Times pushes back against puberty blockers

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

The Scottish Book Trust has given up on free speech

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Keir Starmer changes his mind on trans children

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

The NHS finally sees sense on trans treatment for children

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

What Keir Starmer told Pink News is a sign of things to come

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Domestic abusers feed off crises

BY Joan Smith / 6 mins

Why has Starmer banished feminists?

BY Joan Smith / 5 mins

The Atlantic succumbs to magical thinking on sport

BY Joan Smith / 3 mins

Who will defend JK Rowling’s defenders?

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Starmer stays silent on womens’ rights

BY Joan Smith / 3 mins

Cherie Blair’s class war

BY Joan Smith / 6 mins

Even Twitter is ganging up on JK Rowling

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Keir Starmer is gaslighting women

BY Joan Smith / 4 mins

Has Sadiq Khan sacrificed women?

BY Joan Smith / 5 mins

Cressida Dick has failed women

BY Joan Smith / 5 mins

Raquel Rosario Sánchez won’t be silenced

BY Joan Smith / 5 mins

Caroline Nokes is confused about gender self-ID

BY Joan Smith / 3 mins

Why trans activists can’t beat JK Rowling

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Don’t make misogyny a hate crime

BY Joan Smith / 3 mins

Kathleen Stock deserved better

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

The disgraceful treatment of Kathleen Stock

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Sack Cressida Dick

BY Joan Smith / 2 mins

Why did Sadiq Khan’s office fire me?

BY Joan Smith / 5 mins

Women don’t feel safe with Starmer

BY Joan Smith / 4 mins

Forty years after the Ripper, women still aren’t safe

BY Joan Smith / 7 mins

Keir Starmer’s woman problem

BY Joan Smith / 5 mins

How offensive is Edinburgh Festival?

BY Joan Smith / 5 mins

Pity the women locked in with their abusers

BY Joan Smith / 4 mins

Our dangerous approach to misogyny

BY Joan Smith / 5 mins

Why women are Carl Beech’s real victims

BY Joan Smith / 5 mins

How toxic masculinity is tied to terrorism

BY Joan Smith / 5 mins

Don’t base policy on moral panic

BY Joan Smith / 5 mins

How America sanitised FGM

BY Joan Smith / 5 mins