"President Donald Trump on Monday signed executive orders proclaiming that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes...
It requires that the federal government use the term “sex” instead of “gender,” and directs the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to “require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, accurately reflect the holder’s sex.
Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong," the order reads. "Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being." (NBC NEWS)
I agree.
If you don't like this, perhaps take it up with evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins. He can handle it.
He likes to discuss. And, he knows more about genetics than you do. Me too. ( For Dawkins and theistic geneticist Francis Collins in dialogue, go here.)
Dawkins is still the world's most famous intellectual atheist. His book The Selfish Gene has been used in university biology classes.
Dawkins was interviewed by Piers Morgan. The full interview is here. I find it interesting.
Here's a snippet, on sex and gender.
Piers: They (woke-ists) want to de-gender and neutralise language, but they're doing it from a completely false pretext that you can somehow pretend biology doesn't exist, particularly when it comes to someone's sex. A small group of people have been successful in reshaping swathes of the way society talks and is allowed to talk.
Richard: It's bullying. We've seen the way JK Rowling has been bullied, Kathleen Stock has been bullied. They've stood up to it, but it's very upsetting the way this tiny minority of people has managed to capture the discourse to talk errant nonsense.
Piers: What's the answer?
Richard: Science. There are two sexes. You could talk about gender, if you wish and that's a subjective.
Piers: But when people say there are 100 genders?
Richard: I'm not interested in that. As a biologist, there are two sexes and that's all there is to it.
Piers: Why have we lost that ability to actually have an open and frank debate?
Richard: There are people for whom the word discuss doesn't mean discuss, it means you've taken a position.
Again, If you don't like what Richard Dawkins is saying here, I recommend you take it up with him. I simply report this to you.
