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Richard Dawkins quits atheism foundation for backing transgender ‘religion’
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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But there's nothing religious or dogmatic about what the FFRF did. Dawkins is just framing it that way because it's how he became popular.
He's just an asshole who constantly acts like an asshole, and people are done with his shit, so he's having a little fit on his way out the door.
If anyone is acting "religiously" here, it's Dawkins, who constantly lies and misrepresents medical science because it doesn't match up the beliefs he grew up with.
Rejecting science (biology in this case) is one major component of religion. Others are dogma (a set of principles that are taken as axioms and never contested, eg gender can be whatever you want it to be), heresy (eg offering a scientific view that differs from dogma, like the fact that biology presents two genders), censorship and apostasy (removing such an article for disagreeing with the dogma, regardless of scientific facts).
Seems to me like Dawkins slightly overreacted, but it's understandable because he did so based on the religious-like fervor exhibited by those who would remove an article published by a biologist, debating biological classification, because they disagree with its implications.
For all the talk about the unscientific right, it seems to me like the left ignores science just as much when it's not what they want to hear - what their group has already agreed to be true. This video comes to mind: https://youtu.be/zB_OApdxcno
Who is rejecting biology?
Other than Dawkins I mean?
It seems like you're confused between sex and gender?
I'm old and trying to keep up with the times, remind me; what is the difference between transsexual and transgender? It seems like the word, transsexual, I haven't heard in a longass time.
"Transsexual" is kind of being phased out in favor of "Transgender," I believe.