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

They’re men, so it’s still no.

According to a senile Greer? Yes.

Ageism as well as sexism in your posts?

No surprise there.

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

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.

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.

It’s still no.

Wikipedia ‘evidence’ incoming!

Your woman hating slip is showing again.

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

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

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.

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.

Evidence that Greer has dementia please?

Great quote by Germain!

Did you notice that she doesn't talk at all about 'averages' of behaviour? In fact, I read that and understand that she means the complete opposite.

Quite aside from the fact that you repeat asinine bollocks over and over again, what a thoroughly unpleasant individual you also prove yourself to be

Your inability to grasp facts is really disappointing, but predictable. GG isn’t ‘senile’ which you well know, you’re just hoping she is because that would be a way to discredit her. Imagine being so sad that an 86 year old woman seriously grinds your gears that you make up lies about her 😂

Sad, sad man in these sad, sad times.

Yep.

This really is more wheedling. It is a case of, if someone can just find the right angle to convince women to allow male people to be included in the their sex class then it will all fall into place.

The constant pressure to accept personality traits which are malleable and changeable as a basis of categorisation of sex for the access to female single sex provisions is getting more absurd by the day. The contorting to make it fit must be excruciating to maintain.

Misquoted.

Wikipedia? The site which can be modified by anyone with an axe to grind and which has no named authors of any entry? THAT's your clincher? 😂😂

In terms of public policy, all that's necessary is determining whether there's potential for harm from male bodied people. So whether a trans person can prove their behavioural associations to women as a group is irrelevant.

Greer was widely reported to be admitted to aged care in 2022. (You can google it.) IE she was unable to care for herself which was widely rumoured to be caused dementia. Her complete disappearance from public life & that she is 87 years old is also seen as confirming factor.

Not sure why people consider elderly people who suffer cognitive decline offensive but there you go.

Please provide the evidence that Germaine Greer believed "some trans women experiences are similar to CIS women".

I don't believe that she believed that at all, so I look forward to you linking up where she indicated that she did believe this.

And that as a statement is irrelevant. Because male people can be said to have 'experiences' that are 'similar to' female people's experiences. That doesn't mean that anyone in society has to change policies or laws to give them access to female single sex provisions.

He loves a Wikipedia link, he thinks it’s evidence 😂😂

"widely rumoured" 😂That's your evidence?

As I said "aged care" is not specifically dementia care

"Her complete disappearance from public life" could be attributed to the fact that she's mid-80s and bloody knackered, no?

Edited to add: she put herself into aged care. She wasn't "admitted" to it - you keep trying to suggest she has failing mental capacity.

She still knows what a woman is.

A man has arrived to tell us that GG has dementia, but the evidence for this is obviously a secret because, astonishingly, he can’t provide it 😳 so that should be the end of the matter. Absolutely barking 😂😂

Hmm, she was a guest on Louis Theroux' podcast in 2024.