Richard Dawkins says trans activists 'bullied' JK Rowling for standing up for women's rights

😂 “Doesn’t understand gender”

I can’t stand Dawkins and his ill informed rants against Christianity - he’s a biologist, not a theologian, and equivalent to a vicar trying to pontificate on biology after reading Noddy’s guide to wildlife

Does a person need to be a theologian to express an opinion about religion / Christianity now?

There's plenty of so-called outspoken rational materialist atheists who have been totally silent about genderism, or some even fervently championing it. Almost as if for them, their so-called rational atheism was actually itself a religion of CleverAndCoolNotLikeThatLot.

So for me it's almost a feeling of relief to hear that Dawkins has kept a consistent rational worldview.

I saw a response on Twitter saying he's an evolutionary biologist so should stay in his lane as he doesn't understand gender. 😜

What is “errant” nonsense? Is it worse than arrant nonsense?!
I can’t stand Dawkins and his ill informed rants against Christianity - he’s a biologist, not a theologian, and equivalent to a vicar trying to pontificate on biology after reading Noddy’s guide to wildlife - but I will take any allies we can get, to defend women’s rights!

He's a staunch atheist and a scientist. He was always going to have difficulty just accepting the gendered souls woo and the pseudoscience that's coming out of the trans movement.
I'd love to see him follow up The God Delusion with The Gender Delusion. Not only would it be a fascinating read, but he'd make a mint.

Any pressure is good.

He's fighting the next religion

I don't have much time for Dawkins when he tries to talk about philosophy, but he seems to be a good scientist and he is always willing to say things that he thinks are important even if they are very unpopular.

But I don't think it will make much impact. In a way he's similar to a lot of other public intellectuals who have spoken out on this, or other free speech issues, from a pretty classical liberal background. A lot of them now seem to be considered "right wing" when 10 years ago they were fairly mainstream centrists, or even part of the left.

He also stated there are only two sexes. He was crystal clear about it.

Are the TRAs going to claim that Dawkins is in the pocket of the Religious Right now?

Personally, I'm not Dawkins' biggest fan but I'm glad he's speaking up.