The Transgender Ideology may not have all the support that the left would want you to think it does. Even famed atheist Richard Dawkins is pushing back against this recent craze of the political left.
The famous evolutionary biologist went into great detail about his concerns about the recent political phenomenon on his podcast, “The Poetry of Reality.” On the podcast, he describes the ideology as “distinctly weird” and an “odd distortion of reality” to believe there are more than two sexes.
Richard Dawkins is right. You can't simply put on a dress and declare yourself a woman. pic.twitter.com/AFFBnN228F
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 1, 2023
“Sex really is binary,” Dawkins said on his show. He had famed journalist Helen Joyce on for the conversation. “There’s no question about it. You’re either male or female. And it’s absolutely clear.”
“You can do it on gamete size; you can do it on chromosomes,” he explained. “To me, as a biologist, [it’s] distinctly weird. People can simply declare, ‘I am a woman, though I have a penis.’ Helen, what do you think lies behind this odd distortion of reality?”
Joyce took part in the conversation by pointing out how protected the topic of transgenderism has become. She pointed out what has become the norm in social discourse by asking basic questions you are often dismissed as transphobic and your questions are hate speech.
“[J]ust asking very obvious questions like, ‘Don’t you think that if we allow people to self-identify their sex this will lead to, for example, destroying women’s sports or putting rapists in women’s jails?’ People would turn this back on me and say, ‘You think that trans people are predators? You’re a bigot,’” she continued.
I suspect we agree on a lot more than you
Or anybody else
Might think@RichardDawkins https://t.co/T7d2RMxowd— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) August 2, 2023
In a refreshing take, Joyce agreed with Dawkins’ assessment. She argued that men identifying as women, and women as men, is a “in-name-only” identifier and not rooted in science or biological reality.
“There isn’t a sense in which a man can become a woman, except linguistically,” she added. “I guess, OK, he can have operations. Most trans people don’t have any operations, don’t take any medicine, but that doesn’t change your sex.”
Famous author and Billionaire J.K. Rowling has made similar comments in the past.
Rowling wrote in 2020 that it “isn’t hate speech to speak the truth” about biology. There is only one reality, and that is that there are only two sexes: male and female.
“Super hateful”!? Are they like, twelve? 🤣
“The museum doubled down on its decision on Saturday, saying it “unequivocally stands with nonbinary and transgender communities”.”https://t.co/8DeuOf1lvg— Conservatives for Women (especially Karens) (@CforWomenUK) August 5, 2023
“[E]rasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives,” she wrote.
Rowling has also acknowledged the intellectual contradictions that prop up the transgender ideology. She has specifically questioned how, according to leftist dogma, the following can both be true: (1) There is no sex and gender binary and (2) someone can be born into the wrong one of two sexes.
“The contradictions drive me crazy,” she wrote in December. “We’re simultaneously told gender is innate and inborn, and that it’s a choice, a performance. All of these things cannot be true. If it’s a choice, then, clearly, it’s not innate.”
