Thread by @FondOfBeetles

Dear @RichardDawkins

While you gently awake, women are being cancelled, deplatformed, sanctioned.

Discuss.

https://twitter.com/callie_h_burt/status/1385345371526864905

While you gently awake, legislators in Texas are boldly claiming, despite not quite believing, there are six - precisely six - sexes in humans.

People who make laws are using TikTok for their science info.

Your thoughts?

While you gently awake, I am being questioned by my institute about my use of the words ‘male’ and ‘female’.

Apparently, that’s rude.

Discuss.

While you gently awake, young scientists are being trashed on job sites because they ‘wrong think.’ @SwipeWright

Discuss.

Oh, do you know what?

I’m sick of listing stuff, sick of cataloguing, sick of now being a time where there aren’t just a few events but when there are too many to even remember.

Wake up.

At the same time as the NIH, the EU Commission and many others are arguing for sex as a biological variable, the very journals scientists publish in are making disclaimers about sex being vague woo-woo can't quite pin it down.

The ACLU who defended John Scopes are now an ACLU who say that sex is a "politically and socially contingent notion of embodied and expressed identity."

Discuss.

While you gently awake, there are people arguing that women with high testosterone are not women, and men with low testosterone are not men.

Because, hairy lips and boobs, respectively.

Discuss.