You will be vilified if you deny
Oh look, a provocation from Dawkins that doesn’t make me roll my eyes.
Been discussing for several years now. Progress slow.
It’s outrageous that children are being taught that in school, by the people delegated to educate them. Talk about violating human rights.
Farther down this thread is this series of posts by Maya Forstater that tells her story of how misgendering got her into trouble with Scouts and the Employment Tribunal:
https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1380805643892834306
My understanding is that Rachel Dolezal did a fine job with her NAACP work. She also seemed to really consider herself to be Black. Her only crime was not actually being Black. So, yeah, bizarre that crossing races elicits fiery rage but crossing genders is something to be celebrated.
And poor Rebecca Tuvel almost got burned at the stake merely for pondering why one is OK and the other isn’t.
Maybe pluralistic ignorance explains both reactions. People simply think these are the correct thoughts and don’t want to be seen as bad people so they claim to think them.
Pretty good bit of satire about school rules for handling “signs” of gender dysphoria.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/10/north-carolina-gender-bill-what-counts-nonconformity/
@3 That was kind of funny…but! More importantly–how will she know which, if any, of the children she’s describing are trans???
@4 How will she know they are trans? If they appear to be trans, they are trans, and she’ll push them to acknowledge being trans, because trans is the mostest specialest wonderfulest way to be, only boring people are not trans.
Dawkins, phht. Why don’t YOU f*ing “discuss,” O Brainy One? You, who know so much better than everyone else? Sounds like another version of the game, “Let’s you and him fight.”
If he was such a great science educator and biologist, why didn’t he assemble a consensus to defend biological science, and to say in no uncertain terms that biology is real, that sex is real, that there are only two sexes, that it’s not possible for anyone to change their sex, that DSDs are not new and different sexes, that sex is NOT a “spectrum,” and that the “science” claims of transgenderism are bunkum? Where the hell have the doctors, and biologists, and neuroscientists been all this time? Why hasn’t there been a massive pushback against transgenderism from the people who actually KNOW what they are talking about?
TAs always point to a couple of “science” articles about how “complex” sex is, and how men who say they are women have lady-brains, which “proves” that they are really women. It seems to me that the destruction of TA claims from these articles should be child’s play for biologists. In the case of lady-brain claims, why hasn’t the poor reasoning been shredded? If I object to the irrationality of the conclusions pushed by the transgender lobby, they sneer, “what science degree do YOU have?” Most of them don’t have one either; it’s a fallacious argument from authority, but geez Louise, where the hell have the people been who DO have these degrees? How have they let such nonsense prevail over their own knowledge? I will NEVER understand it.
So, yeah, Dawkins, come down off your snobby and aloof high horse, and DO something! SAY something!