Slogans and swears

Well, he’s not wrong.

The slogan “trans women are women” is scientifically false and harms the rights of women, Richard Dawkins has said.

It’s silly that that’s even news. What are trans women? Men who say they are women. Of course it’s false – scientifically and otherwise – to say that men are women. It’s false and it’s absurd. It’s like saying elephants are rabbits or houses are airplanes.

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.”

At London Pride demonstration in 2023, Sarah Jane Barker, previously Alan Barker, told a crowd, “If you see a Terf punch them in the fucking face.”

Dawkins said: “I don’t think I’m unduly guilty of sexist stereotyping if I say such language is more typical of the sex that ‘Sarah Jane’ claims to have left than the other she aspires to join.”

Well I use such language all the fucking time, and ain’t I a woman?

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