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Several critics have accused Joyce of incorporating antisemitic canards in her work. These critics have pointed to Joyce's 2021 book Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, which contains a passage singling out multiple Jewish billionaires that she claims have "shaped the global agenda" in favor of transgender rights through financial contributions to organizations such as Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union. Joyce has been criticized for failing to cite a source within her book for this claim, for the singling out of only Jewish individuals, and for neglecting to mention other large contributions to LGBT-related organizations that have been made by non-Jewish billionaires, such as MacKenzie Scott.

Joyce has also been criticized for her association with Jennifer Bilek. Bilek is a fellow gender critical activist who has also been accused of antisemitism. Aaron Rabinowitz writing for The Skeptic points to Bilek's praise for far-right Neo-Nazi internet figure Keith Woods. Woods is allegedly the indirect source for Joyce's claim that George Soros and other Jewish billionaires are the "transhumanist" shapers of the "global agenda" behind the transgender rights movement.

In 2021 Joyce published a rebuttal to these allegations to her website. In this rebuttal, Joyce wrote that she had been "subjected to a smear campaign. I knew I would be because that's what happens to anyone who publicly dissents from gender-identity ideology—the notion that what makes you a man or woman isn't your immutable biology, but what you declare yourself to be." She rejected accusations of antisemitism, saying that "the people accusing me of antisemitic dog-whistles are speculating about someone's religion, when I did not even speculate about it." She also defended her choice of multiple Jewish billionaires as being a coincidence:

I didn’t deliberately select three Jewish donors; it never occurred to me to think about their religions. Two of the three, it turns out, are indeed Jewish, though that is not something I mention in my book because it is utterly irrelevant.

In her rebuttal Joyce did admit to meeting with Bilek and to finding many of her ideas interesting, though flawed. She wrote:

Bilek used to write reasonably interestingly about the money behind campaigns for legal gender self-identification. I tweeted her articles several times, and during a work trip to New York before the pandemic I met her for coffee. It was a helpful meeting, in one way, because I came away convinced that although she had correctly (and without any difficulty) identified some of the funders of transactivism, she was wrong about pretty much everything else.

Joyce denounced Bilek's antisemitism but reiterated the thesis of her book, which she had previously credited to Bilek on social media: "that rich individuals and foundations pour money into groups that campaign for gender self-identification."

She also corrected a claim of hers in the book about a donation made by Open Society Foundation; the donation was to another group with a similar name and which also advocated gender self-identification.