‘The New Evolution Deniers’ in Retrospect - by Colin Wright

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Colin Wright has republished his Quillette article on the sex binary on the fourth anniversary of its original publication.

In his original piece he wrote, "It is undoubtedly true that trans people lead very difficult lives, which are only made more difficult by the bigotry of others. But social justice activists appear completely unwilling or unable to distinguish between people who criticize their ideology and people who question their humanity. [... we] must give these issues the respect they deserve by approaching them with nuance and compassion instead of crudeness and cruelty. But we must not jettison truth in this process. If social justice activists require scientists to reject evolution and the reality of biological sex to be considered good allies, then we can never be good allies."

He has added a new introduction to note that since then he has had to leave academia.

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Oops, here's the link to Colin's piece on his website (I inadvertently only included the archived copy above): www.realityslaststand.com/p/the-new-evolution-deniers-in-retrospect

It's also worth noting the excellent links that he includes at the bottom of the article.

Thanks for sharing! It was good to read it again.

the social justice view has no problem with evolutionary explanations for shaping the bodies and minds of all organisms both between and within a species regarding sex, yet insists that humans are special in that evolution has played no role in shaping observed sex-linked behavioral differences. Why the biological forces that shape all of life should be uniquely suspended for humans is unclear.

Or as I like to describe it, it's a belief that although evolution had an effect on humans from the neck down, somehow (miraculously) evolution has had little or no effect on humans from the neck up.

And now that belief has morphed into an even more extreme version by denying any sex differences from the neck down altogether. Hence women athletes should just train harder to beat males in sports.

He has added a new introduction to note that since then he has had to leave academia.

That is appalling.