BREAKING: “There are only two sexes, and that’s all there is to it” | Richard Dawkins

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During an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins dismissed the claims of transgender activists who want to change the language about human sexuality saying, "there are two sexes and that's all there is to it.”

“There are two sexes and that's all there is to it.” As there have been in the mammalian world for 500 million years. And as there have been in the Homo Sapiens world for 200,000-odd years. And as there are today. Two sexes, which are easy to define. It’s easy to answer the question “what is a woman?”. An adult human female; with two X chromosomes; and a large immotile gamete. 

Why do I care about this? As a mid-70s man living in Hong Kong? Why should I care? 

Because it’s part of a bigger movement to undermine western science. Really!

We’re being asked -- demanded -- to agree to a false fact, that identifying with the opposite sex makes you that sex. If we agree to that falsehood, we will more readily agree with others. Of course, trans folks who identify with the opposite sex need to be respected and accommodated. Just not at the expense, in particular, of women, when trans women occupy women’s spaces, when 95% have fully intact male genitalia. That’s too much to ask of girls and women. 

The bigger movement is for “social justice”, like doing away with SAT testing for Uni in America, on the grounds that they lead to disparities and are hence racist; the doing away with testing and merit; the downplaying of science, of the enlightenment, in favour of indigenous “ways of knowing”; of identarian theories of race and gender, which lead to more, not less, division in society. That’s a whole lot right there and some who don’t follow these issues daily might think I’m exaggerating or conspiracy theorising. I’m not. It’s all there, it’s all open. And it’s most open in the struggles surrounding the rights of Transgender people. Which we all are in favour of, just not at the expense of women. Hence the concern and hence my letter to the ABC, this morning:

TO ABC RADIO, in response to a news report that conflated Kellie-Jay Kean with Nazis. Shocking. 

I link not to that report, but to an earlier and related one,

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Kellie-Jay Kean is routinely described as an “anti-trans activist”. Look in Wikipedia and she’s none of that. 

The movement she founded is “Let Women Speak”. (LWS). She founded it to promote the rights of women to their own spaces. Where the interests of trans women and biological women conflict, these days the interests of the former are always primary. Yet women — that is, born female —  girls and young women are threatened when biological males who identify as women, 95% of whom are pre- operative with full male genitalia, enter their spaces, The areas of concern being change rooms, prisons and sports tracks. All these are fair concerns of women (“Cis women” if you must).

She also has concern about medications and operations on minors. That’s a concern that’s now shared by increasing numbers of governments in Europe and in the UK the Tavistock clinic has ceased puberty blockers and surgeries in minors. 

All these are issues for serious discussion. Not for hysterical denunciations. 

Let alone conflating Kellie-Jay Kean and LWS with the Neo Nazis. Who knows why Nazis turned up, but Kellie-Jay has nothing to do with them. 

Here’s a thought: why not have her on a program to speak for herself.? You know, do some “news”, do some investigative journalism, instead of relying on Wikipedia. 

You’ll find a caring mum. 

That’s it. 

I’m a 75-year old man living in Hong Kong. I have no dog in this fight. But I do know Kellie-Jay Kean is  being maligned, and vilified, and that the  ABC is complicit in that.

(I think the guy giving the news is Andy Messenger.)

Peter Forsythe

ADDED: here’s a thing: go Google “Richard Dawkins two sexes”. Remembering Richard Dawkins is super famous, a man of the left (he hates Trump!), the pre-eminent evolutionary biologist in the world. 

But what you get is a page of links all of which are to conservative sites. There’s not a single report in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The LA Times, The Boston Globe, CNN, MSNBC, BBC.... not a one. Because to do so, they would be attacked by Trans Radical Activists (TRA). How do we know this? Because the New York Times did come out on the side of science a few weeks ago and got hammered, from within and without. The warning was clear. They won’t raise their heads above the parapets again. The only place you can get a dose of the reality of science these days, on this issue of sex/gender, is on the conservative side of the ledger.  The MSM, left wing, is too afraid to talk, as it’s in hock to the TRA movement. My friends who don’t read anything right of the Guardian won’t even know that this is an issue and that it’s being fought out as we speak, right down in Australia. 

Below: screenshot of the first page of Google search “Richard Dawkins two sexes”.