It doesn’t stand up to empirical evidence
The rise in pseudo-science is it? Concerned about that are you? All of it are you?
But Humanists UK apparently has no problem with the pseudo-science of magic gender.
In the first in a series of posts from LGBT Humanists where guest authors offer humanist perspectives on issues faced by the LGBT community in the UK, LGBT Humanists Campaigns Officer Kristína Zaťková marks Transgender Day of Visibility (31 March) by looking at the persistent attacks on trans people – from media rhetoric to bullying in schools to hate crime. The series of posts will continue with Lesbian Visibility Day (26 April), Celebrate Bisexuality Day (23 September), and National Coming Out Day (11 October).
Interesting that “trans people” were first in line, and that the foundational belief that people can change sex is…cough…pseudo-science.
How can it be pseudoscience when both Jonathan and Colin have seen “loads of studies” about MRIs and hormones and stuff?
Humanists UK have developed something of a woke streak. This is because they see themselves as the good guys and want others to regard them as good guys. So they are suckers for trans activists coming along and declaring themselves to be on the right side of history — especially where this position is at odds with that of traditional religion.
This was especially so under their previous president, Alice Roberts (example Tweet).
Nowadays, in order to hold to sensible, evidence-based positions, one has to accept that some factions will consider you a bad person and throw *-phobe and *-ist language at you and group you along with the largely mythical “far right”.
In the UK the National Secular Society are far more hard-nosed and are better defenders of free speech and other basic principles.
For example, Humanists UK want it to be a criminal offence for a gay adult to walk — entirely consensually — into a Catholic church, and for the priest to pray with him: “Please Jesus, make Jonny straight”. The NSS have stayed out of that.
Humanists UK have also been advocating laws against “conversion therapy” relating to trans-IDing kids, though they’ve got a bit more muted on that lately, perhaps with a dose of reality having begun to dawn.
They will still, though, staunchly defend speech in opposition to traditional religion. So if a Muslim complains “ow, ow, it hurts so much”, in response to a burned Koran, they’ll reply: “Suck it up pussies!”.
So they’re not completely woke.