Thread by @FondOfBeetles

@RichardDawkins Professor Dawkins, thank you.

In February 2020, Dr Colin Wright @swipewright (evolutionary biologist) and I (developmental biologist) wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, called The Dangerous Denial Of Sex.

archive.md/puTGy

@RichardDawkins @SwipeWright In it, we discuss the biological basis of sex, and how attempts to deconstruct the material reality of sex (social construct! spectrum!) present potential harms for women's rights, for gay rights and for dysphoric children.

For this op-ed, we were vilified.

@RichardDawkins @SwipeWright Since then, following the treatment of writer Suzanne Moore @suzanne_moore after she raised questions about sex and gender, we, with Dr Pam Thompson @egipam and Prof Dave Curtis @davecurtis314 argued for a rethink of discourse on sex, particularly in scientific publications.

@RichardDawkins @SwipeWright @suzanne_moore @egipam @davecurtis314 Our letter in the Irish Journal of Medical Science can be found here:

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@RichardDawkins @SwipeWright @suzanne_moore @egipam @davecurtis314 Colin has also written a defence of JK Rowling @jk_rowling and the ongoing attempts to deconstruct sex as a biological fact.

quillette.com/2020/06/07/jk-…

@RichardDawkins @SwipeWright @suzanne_moore @egipam @davecurtis314 @jk_rowling I have written (well, spoken) about the parallels between the gender movement and the creationist movement. The buzzwords, the Gish Gallops, and so on.

womentalkback.org/post/emma-hilt…

@RichardDawkins @SwipeWright @suzanne_moore @egipam @davecurtis314 @jk_rowling Above, I speculate on the need for a collective of scientists to stand up, just as they stood up in Lousiana in 1986 to defend scientific reality against ideology.

To that end, we started Project Nettie.

projectnettie.wordpress.com

@RichardDawkins @SwipeWright @suzanne_moore @egipam @davecurtis314 @jk_rowling I still hope that, as scientists, we can find our collective voices.