The rejection of science and common sense

[AntsInPenzance]

I'm currently engaged in a debate on trans issues and concepts around sex/gender on another forum (US based). I've been dealing with two main protaganists, one male, one female (neither of them trans people as faras I know), and so far I've had the following statements put to me by one or both of them which just boggle the mind:

^A transwomen is female and has always been female even before they identified as such.

DNA and chromosomes are not the deciding determinate of what differentiates male from female.

If the boxing heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, were to identify as a transwoman, he should be allowed to fight against a female heavyweight boxer and such a fight would be fair and evenly matched.

75% of all rapes occur by someone known to the victim, so a strange male in a woman's changing room is less of a threat.^

I'm not even angry, just dumbfounded.

Dawkins also used to host a forum on his site, I believe that was also closed down, although slightly less abruptly than the guardian one.

@Betheanne

We might be the last bastion of truth. People will write about this small group of women that were eventually silenced. One day this place will be shut down. One day we will pick up our phones and the feminism board will be gone.

I don't think that's going to happen, not now. I think theres a lot more resistance to 'cancel culture' and censorship than before. #nodebate didn't work.