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

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BINGO! HaHA!! Misogynists use misogynist sources.

Sex is binary. Male, or female. No Biologist well ever deny this.

😂Wikipedia. F*k me dead. Wikipedia is not any kind of valid 'source' for anything.

BreatheAndFocus · Today 18:03

Sex is binary. Anyone who thinks otherwise in 2025 is an idiot - or a liar.

Or a lying idiot.

Or an idiotic liar.

Do you even know what caps are? Nothing she wrote is in caps. If you can get something so blatantly obvious wrong....

Trans is an identity in person's head. There is no biological part of it.
Intersex are still either male or female. No biological variation there either.

Identity in someone's head

Aka

Complete fantasy

Howse is his last name.

Exactly. When Dawkins was asked at a recent public speaking event if sex is really binary, he laughed before describing it as 'one of the few true binaries we have'. (The audience also laughed. Reassuring.)

But I'm sure he would be willing to bow to the superior reasoning and new evidence offered up by a bunch of pronoun people and fetishists from Tumblr and trans Reddit.

There is no such thing as 'cis'.

No male's experiences is anything remotely alike females' experiences.

And that clip was made many, many years before she even went into a nursing home.

I object, on behalf of people with disabilities, but also on behalf of 'most people' .

They're all standard character traits for trans activists.

It's well known and even admitted by Jenner that he used to try on his daughter's clothes. He has admitted this himself.

I have to admit to disappointment.

There are a few things that I have waited patiently on MN after being told that there was evidence of - bimodal sex modelling with labels on each axis and a robust study that the affirming only medical treatments improved long term mental health for children.

I keep telling the poster who tells us all that gender affirming care in currrnt form has long term benefits for children that they must submit that evidence to the different countries medical review teams who obviously missed that study. They don’t even link it up for us. They never produce the evidence, despite telling us their highly qualified to make that statement, but they do keep saying that same thing.

And now I shall have to add the Bimodal Sex Model to that list of highly significant information that is being gatekept and not shared so we all can learn from it. Talk about withholding evidence that would turn the world’s understanding on its head!

Perhaps this behaviour identifies as Brave&Stunning?

LOL!

Until shown otherwise, I shall imagine the mythical evidence of bimodal sex modelling with labels on each axis, and this elusive, robust study showing that affirmiation-only medical treatments improved long-term mental health for children are a doodle on the back of a napkin and nothing more.

Of course, following Kucinghitam's thoughts, the doodle might identify as evidence.

I think it really becomes clear that the discussion points are full of misinformation and logical inconsistencies when it comes to men being women, or boys being girls, in any way. It is indeed a performative discussion that is to appear stunning and brave.

I mean, of course it is brave to fight the good fight with just more misinformation and falsity. The last pages so far of this thread really has been the culmination of years of work. Or weeks in the case of that poster… Germaine Greer supposedly being posted for saying something supporting the posters argument. Then when it is pointed out that no, she absolutely doesn’t support male people accessing female single sex spaces, apparently she has dementia when making that clear (despite evidence back to the 90s if not further).

Then the final cherry… the appeal to the bimodal sex model. What a twist from a poster who sneered, belittled and abused their way through weeks of declaring how they had the clarity of thought based on rock solid evidence when everyone else was just posting lies and fallacies.

Plus ca change.

I wonder if in 50 years an expert such as Dawkins will still be vilified for stating that there are two sexes and that there is no science to support that a ‘man’ can be ‘a woman’.

I'm gutted! I had a new dress picked out and my cuticles have never looked so good.

Where the option is available, it seems that a majority of parents choose to terminate a pregnancy after a Down's Syndrome diagnosis. This is as measured by prevalence of Down's Syndrome, and so correctly accounts for women who choose not to have the test.

www.nature.com/articles/s41431-020-00748-y.epdf?sharing_token=6gnHEwZLICc08zI2bjFoT9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Pe45GV59NswcfnRKAj_bH08gu1JSmu0jKt8b1HnDe4isuHc2AtGAb1EFWfK0sQ-7zioz9JL3x7eknxf3djwDC8V8Z4zzw_fOwcgv47AKqE6Z_Sp8Dzzrm-gp414hrGDsM%3D

I was there last night, front and centre:

Sarah Phillimore was up past my left shoulder, judging by her vantage https://x.com/SVPhillimore/status/1974511126680592652

Forget about the pictures and women whose names some of us might know, that what was said? Was it worth going?!!

Says it all.

'Of course the Humanist Society of Australia is perfectly entitled not to support a lecture tour. But to withdraw previously agreed support on such ignominiously ridiculous grounds is just pathetic.'

https://x.com/RichardDawkins/status/1973419443134013786?t=IPRKwk7ZYmMq7NWM0Q45Jw&s=19

Sarah Phillimore is doing some tweeting.

Good news, well done Alice.
'Alice Sullivan, a leading gender-critical researcher, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Maddox Prize for her landmark review into how sex is recorded in publicly funded research. @jgro_the reports'
x.com/timeshighered/status/1973102907269480456?t=BEwbI7fe4Y0uVfVxnG12RQ&s=19

They've lost the right to call themselves humanists.

They should change their name to Manists.