The Center For Inquiry is doubling down on its anti-transgender rhetoric following the release of a statement from more than a dozen other atheist/Humanist organizations defending LGBTQ+ rights.
There’s a lot happening here so let’s try to make sense of it.
There’s a lot happening here so let’s try to make sense of it.
What started this?
In early November, the Freedom From Religion Foundation published an article by former intern Kat Grant about how much of our society’s views on gender are steeped in religious traditions. Those views are still perpetuated today, Grant wrote, by right-wing groups and anti-trans people who “disregard both medical science and lived experience.”
In early November, the Freedom From Religion Foundation published an article by former intern Kat Grant about how much of our society’s views on gender are steeped in religious traditions. Those views are still perpetuated today, Grant wrote, by right-wing groups and anti-trans people who “disregard both medical science and lived experience.”
That seems sensible. Who could have a problem with that?
Bigots, J.K. Rowling fans, and a whole bunch of “New Atheist” authors who think trans people are participating in a mass delusion. Jerry Coyne, who’s written multiple science books, asked FFRF to publish his rebuttal.
Oh no.
Don’t get ahead of me.
What did Coyne say in his piece?
In his essay titled “Biology is not bigotry,” Coyne wrongly insisted that sex is binary . . .
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