Somehow, there are even more updates to the anti-trans controversy I first wrote about on Saturday.
In case you missed it, the short version is that biologist Jerry Coyne, author of Why Evolution is True and Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible, wrote an article trashing transgender people. He insisted sex is binary, that trans women are more likely to be sexual predators (using misleading statistics), argued that trans women shouldn’t be allowed to counsel women who have been physically abused, rejected even the possibility of trans women playing women’s sports at any age, and said trans women shouldn’t be placed in women’s prisons (even though the alternative is disastrous).
Along the way, he just ignored the countless ways the trans community is under attack, largely by people making similar arguments.
None of this was shocking to those of us who have watched him go from a defender of science to an amplifier of right-wing propaganda.
But the problem wasn’t just that he wrote the piece.
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