Richard Dawkin's new book warns against denial of scientific truth by ‘astonishingly vicious’ trans activists and other threats on science

Evidence that Greer has dementia please?

Thank you Howseitgoin.

Well, how about things like the weight that should be give to facts and feelings in forming social policy?

The absence of a clear definition of gender which does not rely on referring back to gender?

The difference between people's feelings about their sex at birth, and the fact of their sex at birth?

The weight that a democratic society should give to the feelings of tiny proportion of the population who feel they their gender is not the same as their sex?

But it's up to you to go into more detail in response to my post, your posts are getting shorter so you may have limited time and I understand that.

I have to add that your comment about G.Greer's age, and developing dementia, was incredibly nasty and offensive.

Not " sex is bimodal, not binary" again. 🙄Until you or another proponent of this obfuscatory twaddle can point to the third gamete, I'll stick with the age-old pattern of males producing small gametes and females large ones which has ensured the continuation of all species which reproduce sexually. Social roles have nothing to do with whether someone is male or female. They are socially constructed, unlike the reproductive systems of males and females.

How about the Greer that published The Female Eunuch in 1970, the year the courts declared April Ashley a man?

Are you suggesting there's something wrong with being senile? Plenty of 86 year olds have it.

Your woman hating slip is showing again.

Wikipedia ‘evidence’ incoming!

It’s still no.

Perhaps one of those multiple choice questionnaires that magazines used to run? Mostly As? To the gents with you! With today's technology they could run them through a touch pad on the door of the bogs. The entrance to the men's could be a trap door that, unbeknownst, you're standing on...with a slide!

Obviously, trips to the loo will need to take into account the extra time needed to take the test and the additional queueing.

Or just go to the correct toilet for your sex.

Germaine Greer has dementia now?!

I must admit Howse, I did ask for novel arguments. I didn’t think “lying about the wellbeing of a famous feminist” would be one of them though.

Ageism as well as sexism in your posts?

No surprise there.

"Aged care" is not the same as dementia care FYI

According to a senile Greer? Yes.

They’re men, so it’s still no.

Your comprehension abilities are truly lacking, she is unequivocal in that clip and there is absolutely no verifiable evidence that she has dementia. FYI, Wikipedia is not, I repeat not, a verifiable source. Try harder.

Perhaps there will be personality quizzes?

Housing as in prisons, hospitals, hostels.

Compromises as in some trans women can compete in sports if they can prove they don't have a male advantage, the provision of separate unisex loos etc, private rooms in hospitals, & housing that won't put trans at risk in prisons.

Transwomen are men.

I don't care what you think.

& some trans women experiences are similar to CIS women so it's not exactly one of her most rigorous analyses.

Or in other words, some men have life experiences that are similar to some women and vice versa.

As 'cis' and 'trans' are completely subjective describers that can be used by anyone to mean what every they want, they don't mean much.

Dawkins' focus here, as with his criticisms of other religions, is on the undesireability of allowing unfalsifiable metaphysical propositions to override empiricism. His attention was snagged when it became apparent that transgenderism was being treated, not as a harmless legal fiction, but literally true.

I doubt that he was previously any more complaisant about the harms to women than the rest of society, which (apart from Germaine Greer - what a woman!) did not see this coming. (If it had, the female employees in Croft v Royal Mail would have been parties to the litigation, not just a passing mention in the judgment.)

So it’s some sort of analysis of life experience that decides if you belong in the ladies lavs now?

Surely you have absolute proof of this, because they are serious allegations?

Yup, Greer doesn't believe trans women are the same as CIS women in terms of "life experience" but not all women's life experiences are the same & some trans women experiences are similar to CIS women so it's not exactly one of her most rigorous analyses. She was getting on at that stage & admitted to a nursing home for dementia not long after.

What you mean there's another reproductive system? ‐ do enlighten us

Germaine Greer certainly did not mean men could identify as women, but if you think she is contradicting herself you will have to take that up with her.

It’s just another flavour of the creepy man who won’t fucking stop trying to wheedle and bargain away your ‘no’ (and if no one is looking will probably try to use force to override your ‘no’ too), because the idea that women are entitled to boundaries simply does not compute for him. It just so happens that this man is wearing a blouse and eyeliner

we have to rely on the law to protect us from such people