Renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is sounding the alarm against what he calls the triumph of feelings over facts when it comes to radical gender ideology.
Dawkins is warning that the slogan “trans women are women” is “scientifically false” and undermines the rights of women.
In his new book “The War on Science,” Dawkins argues that academia and publishing are being corrupted by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies that elevate ideology over truth.
“I draw the line at the belligerent slogan ‘trans women are women’ because it is scientifically false,” Dawkins writes.
“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.”
Speaking to The Telegraph, Dawkins described the trans-activist movement as “astonishingly vicious.”
He notes how dissenters are targeted with threats and harassment.
“Both politics and personal feelings don’t impinge scientific truths, and that needs to be clearly understood,” he said.
“I feel very strongly about the subversion of scientific truth.”
The scientist warned that publishers are increasingly bowing to activist pressure:
“I have been told by publishers that they are under strong pressure from junior members of staff to censor books for this kind of reason, and the astonishing viciousness of the trans lobby; they are very dogmatic and hectoring.”
He pointed to recent examples, including J.K. Rowling and feminist philosopher Kathleen Stock, who was hounded out of the UK’s Sussex University.
“JK Rowling can look after herself, but you look at the way they hounded Kathleen Stock out of Sussex University, and it’s always women who suffer.”
Dawkins also blasted the idea that sex is a “spectrum,” calling it “a denial of genetic reality.”
He underscored the biological basis of male and female:
“Female gametes were much larger than male gametes – known as anisogamy – which was how biologists determined male and female.”
At a Pride demonstration in London in 2023, transgender activist Sarah Jane Barker told the crowd,
“If you see a Terf punch them in the f—— face.”
“Terf” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) is a slur used by leftists to describe real women who fail to bend the knee for transgender ideology.
Responding to Barker’s comments, Dawkins remarked:
“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.”
Dawkins ultimately places blame on postmodern ideology for what he sees as the collapse of reason in academia:
“I think part of what’s happened is the move of academia towards postmodernism, which is pernicious, and probably does account for the current vogue for the nonsense lie that sex is a spectrum.
“There’s this post-modern hubris which presumptuously and falsely dismisses science as a social construct.
“The human conceit here is the idea that personal feelings can change reality.”
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