Prominent atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins was removed from the board of the Freedom of Religion Foundation (FFRF) on Saturday after the organization revealed its allegiance to transgenderism over biological reality. resigned.
Dawkins resigned after the foundation censored a paper by a fellow scientist who pointed out that sex is actually immutable and biological, and promoted the pseudo-spirituality that people can choose their “gender.” rejected the claim. telegraph paper reported.
Dawkins accused the group of capitulating to the “hysterical cries” of cancel culture after FFRF retracted the article and called its publication a “mistake.” Dawkins resigned after two other scientists, Jerry Coyne and Steven Pinker, left the organization over the ordeal. According to the report, the two accused the foundation of promoting an ideology that involves religious “dogma, blasphemy and heresy.”
The origins of the resignation date back to an article published in FFRF's Freethought Now! Published on the website “What is a Woman?'' by Cat Grant. This work opposes the biological realities of womanhood and instead argues that “a woman is who she says she is.”
Last week, Coyne wrote an article in response to Grant's paper titled “Biology is not a prejudice,” detailing how the definition of woman is “based on the type of gamete.” the report continues. In response to the backlash to Coyne's rebuttal, FFRF retracted Coyne's article and apologized for the “distress” it caused by supporting his views.
Co-Presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor said, “Despite our best efforts to uphold reason and equality, mistakes can happen. “This is a reminder of the importance of self-reflection and growth.”
“Publishing this post was an error in judgment and does not reflect our values and principles, so we have decided to remove it. We will try to prevent it from happening again,” they added.
After the article was removed, Coyne accused the organization of promoting a “quasi-religious ideology.”
“This is censorious behavior and I cannot accept it,” he wrote in an email, according to the newspaper. “I was just promoting a biological definition of sex, not a psychological one. I don't understand why you think that's 'distressing' and an attempt to hurt LGBTQIA+ people.” I would never do that.”
“The gender ideology that caused you to remove my article is itself quasi-religious,” Coyne said, adding that “the gender ideology that caused you to remove my article is itself quasi-religious,” adding that “the gender ideology that led you to remove my article is itself quasi-religious,” adding that “the gender ideology that led you to remove my article is quasi-religious,” adding, She has many facets (“a woman is a woman no matter what she says”), she is an apostate, and she tends to ignore science.From when it conflicts with the preferred ideology. ”
Mr. Pinker of the United StatesAlong with his resignation, the Canadian psychologist announced that the FFRF is “no longer a defender of freedom from religion, but an imposer of a new religion filled with dogma, blasphemy and heresy.”
Mr Dawkins called the organization's decision to publish Mr Grant's “stupid and unscientific” paper a “minor error in judgment”, but called the organization's decision to remove Mr Coyne's rebuttal an “unseemly panic”. “It's an act,” he lamented.
“Furthermore, your immediate removal of it without even informing the author of your intentions was a deplorable act of disrespect towards your own advisory board members. I now leave this board with regret. ,” Dawkins said.
According to the report, FFRF Chairman Gaylor said in a comment that he was “grateful” for the time Dawkins and Pinker spent on the board, but added that “differences of opinion probably led to this separation.” was unavoidable,” he said.
Dawkins has previously spoken out against the prevalence of gender ideology in science, once seeking to abolish “binary” terms such as “woman” in favor of “inclusive” terms such as “egg-laying” I have criticized the movement. He also slammed woke “bullying” against women such as Harry Potter author JK Rowling, who has made feminist critiques of the transgender movement in Western countries. In 2021, the American Humanist Association (AHA) rescinded an award it had given Dawkins 25 years earlier, citing critical comments about transgenderism.
