The Freedom From Religion Foundation recently faced criticism for posting and then removing an editorial by Jerry Coyne entitled “Biology is Not Bigotry,” which he wrote in response to an FFRF article by Kat Grant entitled “What is a Woman?”
In his piece, Coyne used specious reasoning and flawed research to argue that transgender individuals are more likely to be sexual predators than cisgender individuals and that they should therefore be barred from some jobs and female-only spaces.
As an ethicist I’m not here to argue biology. I don’t know what the right approach is to balancing phenotypic and genotypic accounts of sex. Luckily, despite Coyne’s framing of the controversy, Coyne is also not here to argue biology. He’s here to argue ethics, and his ethics regarding trans issues consist of bigoted claims leading to discriminatory conclusions.
By making ethics claims like “transgender women… should not serve as rape counselors and workers in battered women’s shelters,” while pretending to only be arguing about biological definitions, Coyne effectively conflates biology with ethics.
As an ethicist I’m not here to argue biology. I don’t know what the right approach is to balancing phenotypic and genotypic accounts of sex. Luckily, despite Coyne’s framing of the controversy, Coyne is also not here to argue biology. He’s here to argue ethics, and his ethics regarding trans issues consist of bigoted claims leading to discriminatory conclusions.
By making ethics claims like “transgender women… should not serve as rape counselors and workers in battered women’s shelters,” while pretending to only be arguing about biological definitions, Coyne effectively conflates biology with ethics.
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Transgender women as stated here are MEN and MEN should not be counsellors in rape crisis centres. He is not here to argue ethics, but the negation of biology and an ideological position on the non existence of women as a separate category to men and those men who claim they are women.
ReplyDeleteIn their eagerness to abandon women's rights they have forgotten all of this and are eager to censor those who do not believe what they believe. If science is abandoned to suit the diktat of woketards, it can also be abandoned to suit the cretins of creationism.
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