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

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In The War on Science, Dawkins joins several scientists and philosophers contending that academic freedom and truth in universities was being stifled by diversity, equity and inclusion policies that promoted falsehoods under the banner of social justice.

“I draw the line at the belligerent slogan ‘trans women are women’ because it is scientifically false,” he said. “When taken literally, it can infringe the rights of other people, especially women.

“It logically entails the right to enter women’s sporting events, women’s changing rooms, women’s prisons and so on.

“So powerful has this postmodern counter-factualism become, that newspapers refer to ‘her penis’ as a matter of unremarked routine.”

Full article at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/25/richard-dawkins-trans-women-slogan-scientifically-false/ and at https://archive.is/zAFxS

Just a reminder. Although, I am sure most people posting on this board remember reading this.

Even in 1996, Germaine was very clear that no male people should be accessing female single sex provisions.

http://archive.today/VrUtd

"In 1996, she was invited to take up a fellowship at Newnham, one of Cambridge's three all-women colleges. Germaine Greer, who was then a fellow of the college, subsequently argued that since Padman was legally a man, her appointment contravened college statutes."

And you are the one who dismissed Greer's opinions on the basis that
'She was getting on at that stage & admitted to a nursing home for dementia not long after.'
and in another post
'According to a senile Greer? Yes.'
Now that's offensive.

As offensive as calling trans people deluded? I guess she might understand how they feel now.

Your redefinition of sex doesn't hold across all sexually reproducing species. For example, not all species have a chromosomal sex-determination system.

Consider: when a biologist discovers a new species where an initial analysis shows it reproduces sexually and has the female and male halves of the reproductive system embodied in distinct sets of individuals (that is, gonochorism) - how does she then figure out which are the females and which are the males?

Is this an example of the empathy that you claim to have?

Remember up until she as back here, she had been living around Springbook National Park, a rainforest in Queensland, that she wrote a book about and was doing plenty of interviews about in 2014 and thereabouts.

I'm so glad you posted this.

I just love the no-nonsense, cut-to-the-chase, common sense way she speaks.

It's an icy cold breath of fresh air that instantly turns word salad mouldy.

Deluded means believing something that is not true. So, you are deluded about Greer's medical status, and trans people are deluded if they genuinely believe they can change sex.

Caitlyn Jenner admitted he came out as trans after getting caught on camera stealing his teenage daughters’ underwear.

Are you suggesting cruelty is unhelpful now? Or this only applies when convenient? According to Greer offence is irrelevant.

Gosh.... look at this....

In 2022, Germaine Greer had a fall and was hospitalised. She couldn't appear in person at a Canberra Writer's event. An event that she would not have been invited to speak at if she was cognitively impaired. And apparently, she had fucking disappeared from public life too....

https://whisperinggums.com/tag/germaine-greer/

Any sign of that proof of a dementia diagnosis?

Should I do Howsa's usual and say "Still waiting.... " with emojis and all. That is the usual tactic, isn't it? The one that crossed over to bullying after so many repeats?

Fucking hell. The hate for women by some people really becomes clearer and clearer each day. And very multi-faceted.

Progress which is rapidly going into reverse if YouGov opinion polls on this subject over the past few years are anything to go by. Increasingly arrogant overreach by transactivists has shifted public acceptance very markedly in a negative direction and there's no indication the downward slide will be easily reversed or even stopped.

Me too.

It is clearly her opinion and one that may or man not be accurate, or may be in part.

It certainly gives a refreshing perspective.

She's in a care home for the elderly but was giving interviews up to a couple of years ago. And anyway it doesn't matter that she's old. It's simply a fact and has no bearing on her life's work. Calling her "senile Greer" is an irrelevant swipe.

What people say they are admitted to care for publicly & actually are aren't always the same. As I said it was widely rumoured to be dementia & given she was prone to spouting out of character nonsense like Jenner transitioned because she was jealous doesn't sound like her normal self.

Neither the state of Germaine Greer's health nor her manners has any bearing on whether sex is binary.

There's that "widely rumoured" again...

Ive seen the Netflix show & that's false.

So, let's see...

A poster claims that Dawkins expertise about evolutionary biology and how that impacts in life should be discounted because Dawkins may have expressed an opinion that may or may not be based on accurate insight.

That poster makes false claims and twists Germaine Greer's words and makes other false claims about her. And yet believes that they are righteous and people should consider their views.

Anyone else think this is a hypocritical position to hold?

Of course. The obsessive focus is a distraction technique to stop talking about bi modal sex.

Ahh.. so it is RUMOURED!

Based on an opinion she gave about a man who has claimed to be a woman. Yet, she has a long history of stating that male people cannot be female people and should not be accessing female single sex provisions.

And I also notice your use of 'spouting'.

The hate for women is showing again .....

In that fascinating piece you linked where she appeared at the Canberra Writers Festival in 2022 she was really on form. She could be talking about the emotionally incontinent transactivist currently drowning this thread with all manner of lies, obfuscations and misogynistic nonsense when she said:

"Mistrust me if I present myself as having them [the answers, she meant]".

You're questioning what motivation an evolutionary biologist would have for believing in scientific reality?

It was a topic you, personally, introduced today at 10:54.

Its not a redefinition. Its fact that within species there's potential for biological variation. That this isn't in the service of reproduction is irrelevant.

😂😂😂

Such intellectual insight