I'm trans and have been out for around two decades now. Living life was easier before all the madness started. I don't want to be politicized; I just want to live my life. Leave me alone.
"Leave me alone." Who should leave you alone? No one cares who you are and what you do. It is not about you and never was. It is all about forcing ideology to people that do not care.
@@inthedeadhours i'm not sure if guessing on ppl mood is your hobby, but once again - no one cares how do you feel. Your irrelevant feelings doesn't change reality.
Liberals in 2010: "Richard Dawkins is our hero for being a voice of reason!" Liberals in 2024: "Richard Dawkins is evil for suggesting women don't have penises!"
Richard Dawkins is evil for promoting thousands of "gender normalization" surgeries on children under the age of 14 due to the absurd views that impose these harmful surgeries. In Poland alone, in 2021 alone, 6,800 genital surgeries were performed on intersex children, where the overwhelming majority of 99% were caused by adapting the appearance to "normal" genitals, where a huge number cause mutilation of the people subjected to these surgeries, including loss of sensation in the perineum and the ability to see the pleasure of love. He believes that there are few intersex people (according to his smallest possible scale of counting intersex people, 10 million people in the world is too few to be considered people worthy of legal protection) to be sufficient to change the abstract definition in biology (because it has been changed in medicine) and that is why he does not recognize HUNDREDS of scientific studies in this field and considers this a reason to impose restrictions on freedom for people he officially despises as subhumans whose freedom and right to self-determination he does not recognize.
During 1935 era, Jazz in Germany was pronounced as "Wrong Jewish Music". Today Nazis are pronouncing boys who like playing dolls as "wrong people who should become Amputees". Wokeness Is just a fucking Nazism disguised differently. No wonder Russians smell that thingy for thousand miles and take preventive measures.
EVERYONE IN THE WORLD knows, REALLY knows that JK Rowling is right. It's rediculous that this is even an issue. Regards from a regular bloke in Hertfordshire who is mightily sick of all this bo * * * cks now.
This person could be dyslexic for example and that is why he spelled ridiculous wrongly. He could have written this in a rush therefore have no time to check it. @@Kikiyayazengardens
@@jerrylong6238 Oh, please. It's not a flag of a man of the people to be ignorant of how to spell it's haste, driven by negative emotion, or lack of education which is something to ponder.
My best friend, now sadly dead, was a masculine woman. Her sensibilities and even physicality were quite masculine, but she was a happily heterosexual woman with four children and a much loved partner to the end of her days.
Sorry for your loss. I'm like that too. I'm a woman with a traditionally "masculine" personality and way of dressing but like men and am perfectly content inside my body. It's gotten to the point where both the extreme right and the extreme left (particularly trans ideology) say "if you're a woman and you're not traditionally femenine, you're not a real woman". It's horrible.
He has a very lunatic and dumb sense of humor! The stupidity of his arguments in this video is more foolish than any argument ever made by a religious person trying to prove the existence of God. His brain is rapidly deteriorating. I think it's quite understandable since he's of an advanced age.
@bnsyphotography2104 Indeed. If I were to say that the planets in the solar system revolve around the Sun, that's not my opinion; it's a scientific fact.
:10 how can we even say that? South Park did a whole episode about a character changing race and Randy wanting to be a dolphin, of course we saw it coming but we did absolutely nothing
@@WalterWhite-jz7ct That is your own interpretation of normal. Mine is not being a lefty. All the left are not normal, The left are absolutely doolally.
On science he makes sense, but when it comes to Gender, he is clueless. He exposed that when he made the claim trans people just claim to be the Gender they want to be and think that makes them that Gender. A transwoman is just a woman born with a penis. And a transman is just a man born with a Viginia. It is just that simple, He knows and even admits a person can be born with both male and female Gentelia at the same time (hermaphrodites) therefore one set has to be the wrong one, correct? Well, that is the definition of a transperson. Someone born with the wrong Gentelia or in the wrong body whatever.
Their talk between 1:00 and 2:00 shows that question "what is a woman" is purely linguistic. Trans people don't deny biology, since they don't claim they have organs they don't have. And Dawkins admits there is a woman's brain, he just dislikes calling that person woman, which is linguistic issue.
“There is no absolute morality and there is no absolute truth.” Chris Hitchens For some reason the priest of atheism asserted this as such, but then again we all have our blind spots. Going back to his argument. If there is no absolute truth and no absolute morality then there is subjective truth (opinion) and moral preference. You might prefer children and I might disagree. This is your preference. Who am I to stand in your way… You might believe there is a god and I might disagree. These are just your opinions, who am I to disagree, as the song goes… You might believe men can be pregnant. It’s your opinion. Dawkins is an old-school atheist, one who has been raised in a sea of Christianity, that is why he seeks to discover [absolute] truth through the scientific method. All the while he is utterly oblivious to the fact that it is Church’s apostasy that brought about this militant atheism and the nonsense of transgenderism… Cheers, infidels. You deserve it.
Even to say that it's possible to "think like a woman" gives a lot of weight to sexist stereotypes. If you don't define sex by reproductive biology, there's no way to define it that ::doesn't:: rely on sexist stereotypes.
Sex is purely biological, and certainly not binary (though it's _largely_ binary.) Gender is a social construct, and thus meaningless for many purposes.
That's because the only way a man can claim to be a woman is by clinging onto sex roles given that biology already denies their attempts to be seen as women. Also the fixated fetish some heterosexual men have with lesbians who they want access to.
Absolutely. How can a trans-identified male KNOW that he thinks 'like a woman' since he has never been a woman and therefore cannot possibly know how a woman thinks. Of course, it cannot occur to him that 'a woman' does not exist, only WOMEN exist, each one of whom thinks very much as an individual rather than via a hive mind or in conformity with sexist gender stereotypes. Quite demeaning to women, I would say.
People really need to stop throwing the word ‘woke’ around. It’s just become something that is used to shut down any reasonable debate, particularly in matters of progressive attitudes, usually by people who don’t have a proper argument or any knowledge of the subject they’re discussing.
@@zappasmoustache23 All these wokers are just seeking attention .Of all the things we have come to unde stant with proof of science .If we some how forgot all that and had to rediscover .the new results and proof would be exactly the same as as what we understand now ..Wokeness would not .be the same
Andrew Gold seems to worry about dying but as he becomes older that's likely to diminish. Most people I nursed when they were dying didn't appear afraid to die. There comes a point where you've had enough.
@@jonathangmallender Hero for talking simple sanity most people agree with? KJ Rowling perhaps is as she’s willing to go to prison and pay legal fees to defend women.
@@MichaelMcgee-nh9qt He's very respectable yes, for sticking with the truth regardless of what it might do to his reputation. I can't say the same of other well known scientists like Bill Nye or Neal Degrasse Tyson
How could someone who has lived as a man, was raised as a man and has been treated as man for his entire life even have the faintest idea of what it actually "feels" like to be a woman or vice versa?
If you remove whatever JKR has said, remove the context of her controversies and just look at it as a person who stood up for their beliefs against the mainstream: I think JKR is incredibly brave and admirable. She sacrificed being one of the most beloved children’s authors of all time to fight for something she believes in knowing full well how people behave on the internet and what will happen to her. JKR is not scared of other people’s opinions of her. She doesn’t need validation from others. That’s power. I wish I had that sort of strength of character. It angers me that JKR will never feature on books like Little People Big Dreams because she’s become the scapegoat of toxic trans activism’s frustrations. JKr couldn’t be more gentle in her criticisms of some of the trans movement. If she is “evil” then everyone is, in some way, irredeemable. People need to take Voltaire’s words more to heart: “I may not agree with you, But I defend you to the death your right to say it”
Jk Rowling is a hero,she is why intact biological men who have comitted s,x crimes are not being allowed to share cells with women in britain, she is a heroine, fighting Orwellian idealogy, for the sake of humanity.
Richard is a nice looking man aging gracefully, standing up for the truth as he understands it and believes with every cell of his being. Thank you Richard for setting me free from a superstitious Catholic upbringing. I am forever grateful.
@@WalterWhite-jz7ct History is written by the Victors. That might always be so.. Mind you, with the advent of AI, what history we have lived and tried to capture honestly is getting blurrier.
I don't. They will have the same issues, fighting the same fights just the subject will change. Women, pocs, gay and now trans... who knows what they deny next
Everyone knows she is right!! It's only the media and social media loons who don't -'I have not met a single person who does not agree with her. The media is so far removed from everyday life now - nobody takes it seriously
I was brought up by my grandfather and have been told my approach to work and life in general is male, never once have I identified as a man. Thank goodness I wasn’t brought up today. 🎉
Ricky Gervais got it right. 10 years ago: “Dr, I feel like a pair of curtains. Dr says: “Pull yourself together man!” Now, “Dr, I feel like a pair of curtains.” Dr says: “Well you are then.”
I donated and fully supported the same version of trans rights but then it escalated to sports and no fooks given on AGP types being allowed in safe spaces for rape and prisons. It is too dangerous and insane at this point without requirements for women not born with a weiner. I respect JK Rowlins for risking her career to speak up for those that would be silenced.
My understanding of the situation involves a person always feeling to have been someone of the opposite sex born in the wrong body. Many of them say the same thing, namely, that from their first memories they have felt this and nobody gave them this idea. The fact that I do not understand it beyond the above words does not make it wrong or crazy; it is simply beyond my experience. I am glad that I never have had to deal with this. How awful. It seems nature has played a really nasty trick on some unfortunates.
Nobody knows what it feels like to be another person whether they are male or female. I’m male, my best friend is male, but I don’t know what it feels like to be him. We share interests, sure, but we are not the same. So it bugs me when people say stupid things like “no man knows what it is to feel like a woman” well, neither does a woman know what it is to feel like another woman, expect the biological side of things, like menstruation etc. But psychologically, we are uniquely individual. Society is hell bent on placing people, especially those in a minority into a box, stick a label on it and place it on a shelf. In my opinion, everyone has their own box, there’s nobody else in there with you, because ‘ you are you, no one can know what it is to be you, and absolutely NOBODY has the right to tell you how to live your life’ which, is very short, so live to the full and BE YOURSELF.
@@John-nv5zyHow do you know anyone isn't lying? How do I know you're not a Chinese chatbot? If you're even remotely interested in having a true opinion in the trans debate, you should probably spend some time listening to people who are going through the experience of being in the wrong body. It's called trusting other human beings. And you can still disagree with them afterwards. But so many issues today could be resolved by just having conversations with people outside of your bubble.
I think you are doing the topic a disservice by mixing together all gender issues into one "trans" topic. Transsexuality is an established diagnosis within psychology, while the long list of pronouns is not. That trans-women can't always enjoy the same rights that CIS women do - like in sports, is yet another topic, and many transpeople seem to understand this very well. Claiming that transsexuals are just confused men that need to snap out of it, I feel is beyond both you and JK. It's not about having a different gender behaviour than what is traditional. It's about identity, and I'm sure you can agree that feeling like a man is not connected to you "liking sports or cars". It's far deeper than that. With the pronouns-club, however, it may not be. Never simplify a topic that for many people is a matter of life and dad.
Consider how much money you’d have to be paid to permanently transition and go out in public, be with friends, family, at work etc. For a lot of people that figure does not exist. Obviously someone driven to do that voluntarily has a very different experience of themselves than you do. When you have a large number of people reporting a similar experience, it think it is rather arrogant and narrow minded to say “I can’t conceive of their experience, therefore it isn’t real.” As for what to do about it, that is a much harder question, but i will go out on a limb and suggest that one of the least qualified people to consult is JKR.
No one can say they think/feel like the opposite sex. Why? Because they are not, and have never been, the opposite sex. They think and feel like they the sex they are, because that's the sex they are.
Ah yes, the woman who normalised slavery in her books for kids. Look, trans issues aside, JK Rowling is incredibly stupid. I don't even believe Dawkins likes Harry Potter.
The closest thing would be the electron collision at near-light speed at the Large Hadron Collider, which is believed to be a possible origin of the universe and it’s been nicknamed “The God Particle”.
@@imacmill lols they re making big bucks out the misery of these kids. Gender affirming medicine is not cheap and the more affirmed they are the more psychiatric support and medicine they need. It a goldmine.
I do not know nor have I ever met a trans-person or a man who believes he's a woman and vice-versa, but what I think is that it would take an enormous amount of courage to say in public that you had become someone from the opposite sex. Think of how one's life would change forever with life-long friends abandoning you and family going through the roof and how one's mother would react or father. However, rather than have anything negative to say about their choice in life, I think the best thing is to simply accept their choice and not much more than that. Stay neutral. All you can say really is, "oh, I didn't know you felt that way." Why do I say that? Because life on its own just being the person you were born as and growing up a boy and becoming a man for example, is already a great challenge for a lot of men. Think of how complex one's life would be by outwardly saying that you have now changed sex because you thought about it and that now you are of the opposite sex! Do you see what I mean? I think we have to just accept the people who go over that line-in-the-sand navigate their way to where ever it is they are going and not get emotional about it or condemn them in any way, because they have got to live in the world too and more power to them if they feel they found their purpose in life.
It can be courage that brings a person to 'come out' as Trans but so often it coexists with arrogance, anger and entitlement. It can also be a Fetish. There's a difference between getting on with ones life and trying to 'shove down the throat of everyone' your way of life. Men invading Women's Spaces is fraught with possible danger and is not just as simple as a Man putting on a Dress and saying call me Mary !
@@nicholaseager9201 GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I studied psychology at university, but I do not know a thing about the trans movement. I just know it's very, very hard to know how to react to something like this because it is out of our range of psychological tools. What is not needed is emotional outbursts and name-calling and the like. I know; I know; easy to say but hard to do.
@@TEKANNON-bz9fm As with every group there are always extremists and the silent majority are not heard from by definition. I'm Gay but my sexuality is only part of me. Basically I am Nicholas. An Englishman who happens to be Gay. Gay doesn't define me or control every aspect of my life. I expect RESPECT for who I am in totality. I don't expect 'special or different' treatment due to my sexuality. I also don't demand that everyone accepts my sexuality. People have a right to their opinion. However I have a right to be treated equally. The trouble with extremists, be they Political, Sexuality, Gender...etc. driven is that some do not want equality but rather to be treated specially with extra rights and considerations. A sort of Equality Plus ! This is wrong. TRANS are people of course and should be respected like everyone else else. But this works both ways and respect should be equal. If you have a Male Body, i.e. a Penis, then no matter if you wear a Dress you should realise that your presence in an environment intended for only Females, with Vaginas, is not appreciated. Males are generally physically stronger and are also the main sexual Predators. How many times do you get Women that want to enter Male Changing rooms for sexual excitement ? Women that think going into Male Toilets is sexy. Women that stealthily control an environment and lay in wait to physically pounce on and RAPE a Man ? I'd suggest NEVER ! The reverse situation of Men manipulating situations to abuse Women sexually is far too common. For all these reasons above Trans Women ARE NOT WOMEN. They are Men that either just wear a Dress or have undergone Hormonal and Surgical treatment in order to IMITATE a Woman. They may say they're a Woman, may feel like one, dress like one etc. However their DNA and their early development has been that of a Male and this CANNOT be changed by any amount of Hormone taking or Surgical Procedures.
I have known one trans mtf person in my life. This person was under no illusion that they will never become a biological female. They wanted as far as possible to look like a woman, behave as a woman and so on. The person's mother said that her son had always been effeminate in any case and that is why he passed as a woman.
I'm surprised that no one brings up the obvious fact that our language(s) typically fail to distinguish between sex (which is biological) and gender (which is social). This alone will keep tripping us up, when we cannot get past the traps laid down by our own words.
The problem is that you're asking small-minded people to expand their understanding of the world. Even Dawkins in this clip says that there is a likelihood that there is a difference between a male brain and a female brain.
Some can't distinguish between that, sure. However a lot of people, including me and likely JK Rowling, don't think there is any difference and that the concept of a social constructed gender is more or less made up. What Dawkins said in the clip is that men can be more feminine and women more masculine in their ways or thinking. It doesn't change their gender/sex (gender = sex). To accept and embrace this range, the possibility that a man can be feminine and women masculine, should have been enough for everyone. Neither JK Rowling nor me have anything against transwomen or transmen. Live as you like. But don't force other people to believe in your fake narrative. I have seen this narrative, the social constructivist, postmodern, theories within gender studies and social sciences spread when I studied political science 2003-2011. I saw the "truth" be established. The craziness spread and no one dared to argue against it. But a lot of people have had enough. There will come a backlash to these absurdities. Unfortunately it will mostly come from the right side of the political spectrum.
Is it that big a problem? I hear so much about it but met a handful of trans people in my life. I've met a few who mighta made more sense as a different gender. I don't care.
It's hard to remember, but all of the Trans and Pronoun propaganda really only started a decade ago, after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage and the movements' momentum was redirected towards Transgender rights. It wouldn't be such an issue if all this balderdash didn't flow down to impressionable teenagers.
You have no idea. Left parties in every country are trying to appeal to this ideology. You need to be aware that this doesn't only consist of the men wearing women's clothes. Trans people are only used for virtue signalling. There are troll armies online who try to get everyone blocked who argues in any way against gender identity. Here on YT it's more subtle than elsewhere, here comments just get shadow banned. You don't notice but nobody gets the comments shown in their stream. It's a cult that tries to get power and they force us to deny reality and accept made up nonsense and change our language, what we must say or must not say and how to say it. They are following the playbook for any ongoing dictator
You have to earn respect i'm not going to cheapen it and through it round like confeti,when tolerance is the only thing that matters you believe in nothing.
'In regards to' is newish, ugly, and everywhere. That plural 'regards' is an ear-grind. Good writers and speakers would rather rip their own eyes out than be caught using 'with/in regards to'. Just 'regarding' or (if you must) 'with regards to'. Best, um, regards
Dunno. My basic diff w/transitioning is that it has become a medical situation. Hormones + often surgery are hugely problematic. My grandfather was a NY surgeon who refused doing purely cosmetic surgery but gave pro bono surgeries for abnormal deformities. Cleft palate et al.
For those who think their gender is biological- point to where your gender is on your body. If you think it has anything to do with your body parts- imagine you lost that particular body part. Are you still the same gender? How come? It’s really something you feel inside, not something attached to you.
Not a valid rationale. Your chromosomes aren't going to change just because you lost a limb. But, hey its cool these days to throw science out the window in favour of the realm of philosophy where 'I think therefore I am'.
That is correct that is why you would need to ask a person what Gender they are you cannot tell them what Gender they are no matter what you may think. I'm sure a lot of females (males also) out there have a much larger penis than I have.
@@mipmip4575 I would love to tell you "educate the uneducated" but you lot have the internet and still failed so I doubt I can do much. To answer your question, im here to laugh at the ones to dumb to google and learn
There are a small percentage which feel and see themselves as the opposite sex from as early as can be remembered. In this sense like a female born into a male body. Complicated by the small amount of intersex people such as complete androgen insensitivity syndrome. However this tiny percentage of people is not the gender choice rebellion going on in 95% of trans people.
95% of percentages in UA-cam comments sections are pulled directly from the commentators ass. Plus there's a whole world of things we're not studying. Who knows if the amount of processed foods and other chemicals that we ingested for decades is affecting this. And while you're trying to figure this out why don't you come up with a solution for hard solipsism.
Again, being a man or woman is not a “feeling”. It is a biological reality determined by binary (female/male) gametes. Surgeries and hormones to “transition” have been proven to damage a person’s physical and mental health long term. There is no such thing as being born in the wrong body.
♦"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool." ♦"The delusional religious fools are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt." ♦"Only fools revere the supernatural myths just bc a book claims itself to be the holy truth." ♦"The religious believe by the millions what only lunatics could believe on their own." ♦"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." ♦"It's difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
I don't really understand why these guys are so angry about this. Like why should we care about the gender people identify with in the same way we don't care which sex a man or woman sleeps with. Also, as a scientist, when was the last time you judged someone based on their chromosomes? We just go on how people present. There are far bigger issues in the world. Disappointed that Dawkins has lost sight of his roots.
In most situations we don't need to care, but in some like women's safe spaces, and women's sports, it is unfair and has dangers to not acknowledge biological sex exists. Dawkins was friends with Jan Morris before most of his ignorant haters were born, he does NOT hate trans people, he has a intelligent nuanced view on the issue, supporting tolerance, within the confines, of accepting biological sex exists, not a puritan idealogical zealotry, of putting trans rights extremism above every human experience. The overbearing bullying arrogant aggressive mansplaining impervious macho nature of most extreme trans rights activists is indicative of sex differences, and why we need some recognition in laws and safeguarding that biological women exist, it's just glaring reality. Like me I can tell which people are men and which are women, evolution made that useful adaption for us. Love to all, ❤❤
AS you get older you get ready for death. It's inevitable. I'm still a nineteen year old in my 60th decade, I don't believe in the Abrahamic gods any more, I hope I'm coming back as a Hawthorn or a Holly tree - just to hang around and listen to the birdsong.
Nonsense. You get to go on picnics with black widow spiders, great white sharks, wolverines, tyrannosaurus rexes, and brown snakes. It will be wonderful.
The poetry of reality… “Natural is all there can be, Nothing else is real. ‘Super’natural is clearly silly At least, that’s what I feel. As a very clever Prof., I can see at once That ‘trans’ ⚧ is fugging stupid stuff; To think awry I’d be a dunce. Christ of course is something else, I’ll accept he did exist; But to say he died upon a cross To save us, that’s ridiculis!” R Dawkins PhD (Oxon) (Zoology)
Probably because you never lived outside your bubble, there always has been people who are what now are called transgender, it’s just that earlier their parents and community either shunned or killed them due to religion. Also it’s ironically due to religion that we have these binary rules and men growing their hair long and women wearing trousers already rejected the binary without using those words. How people define themselves is a direct consequence of our societal rules and what religious doctrine has caused. Side note, there are no words you can’t say, they only have consequences. The ruling class had laws making black people (and women) property and people in the lgbtq+ community were legally tortured and jailed for their orientation and we’ve made a (very small) acknowledgment of it.
Women still are property in Islamic countries. I find your conflation of colour and gender "black people and women" deeply offensive. Gender and race are very different characteristics. Does a "black women" count double in your bubble?
> Also, it’s ironically due to religion that we have these binary rules and men growing their hair long and women wearing trousers already rejected the binary without using those words. How people define themselves is a direct consequence of our societal rules and what religious doctrine has caused. Side note, there are no words you can’t say, they only have consequences. According to you, men who happen to grow long hair and paint nails and women having short hair and wearing shorts are so "rare" and "unheard of" that they need a special word? Metrosexual wasn't a thing, androgynous wasn't a thing, gender non-conforming wasn't a thing? Het men and women who do these things are actually queer and "trans in denial" ? As a woman from a non-western, homophobic country and not straight herself, your TQ+ folk has to touch some grass, that thinking is sexist as hell. There's more visibility to trans people, but I hardly doubt mentally sane trans folk would pressure lesbians to sleep with them or make up xer/xir/ e.t.c. pronouns
@@limyrob1383 actually I didn’t say “black people and women” and though the form I used was for brevity without nuance, I wasn’t conflating the two groups. You would have a better argument if you pointed out that some „white“ groups such as the Irish were also treated as property by the ruling class but perhaps you had reasons. Also, America will likely attempt to make women (and other parts of the population 😉) legally property again if the religion industry succeeds in their Project 2025 plans
Here’s the thing… most trans people I know… and yes, I know a few… happily accept that on a biological level, they are the sex they were born as. However they feel and would like to present, live and be treated as if they were not that sex. - trans men understand and accept that they were born female but wish to live their life as a man… as a male. Richard and JK Rowling come in to difficulty when they have to keep hammering home that trans people are not biologically the gender they identify as, and therefore cannot identify with the experiences of the gender they feel they are. I personally think they are being weirdly obstinate and forgetting that language and understanding of gender has changed constantly over the millennia. There have been many studies that show that some people have more masculine and or feminine brains and Dawkins, admitting he hasn’t done much research on that, really surprises and disappoints me.
I think the point is not so much as them living in they way they want, I think that’s perfectly fine if they want o live as men or women, I think the controversy is over the fact that some trans women and activists want not only to be treated as women but they also want to be included in certain activities that they are not suited to, such as going to a gynecologist, or participating in women’s sport when most of then have clearly a biological advantage even after years of hormonal treatment. That’s The main issue and that bio women are not being hear:d and their rights and concerns are put below trans women, you don’t see this happening with trans men. I have yet to see or hear about a trans men complaining of being discriminated in men’s sports or wanting to be included in men’s spaces etc. or claiming that he can impregnate a biological woman, like trans women do when claiming women’s spaces, being able to menstruate or even give birth.
Really? You have to be joking. It's now wall-to-wall transgenderist propaganda. This has now saturated the whole of civil society. I'm sure we all know someone who has been 'cancelled', 'no platformed', or sacked from a job because of gender-critical opinions. Not to mention the countless legions who shut their gobs and hold their silence for fear of losing their livelihoods and/or reputations. But this is not as bad as it gets. Those who are really in the firing line are vulnerable adolescents, who find puberty challenging and develop mental health issues, or who are autistic. These are the young people who, getting no real help, are deftly 'pushed' into surgery and/or cross-sex hormones by so-called 'professionals' who should know better. I had anorexia nervosa at the age of 15. Yes, it was a protest against the constraints of femininity, but that did not make me any less a (young) woman. It was 1963 at the time of second-wave feminism. Fortunately for me I was not born fifty or sixty years later. Had that been the case I would have had a good chance of being mastectomised, and my body injected with testosterone, perhaps with the 'advice' that I should complete my 'transition' with surgery to construct a penis. I can only be grateful for my good fortune in being born at the time I was.
There are no women in the top 25 (WESPA rated) Scrabble players. Why? I don't know. Same with chess, over 2000 grandmasters out there but only 42 are women. So there must be some brain differences or is it just cultural? On the other hand I have never seen a man manage to take off a jumper with their arms crossed, like women do so easily...
Women don't need to compete with other women in the same way men compete with men. Chess is mostly just a way for men to brag about how smart they are. They play chess to indicate their superiority to other men. Women have no impetus to do this so few women play chess.
I grew up in the 90s and trans people existing was a normal thing for me since I remember. So Dawkins acting as if it was a new thing is just embarrassing. It's sad to see one of my heroes of logic and reason deconstruction himself as prejudiced and ignorant but it shows what he always preached: There are no universal role models or intellectual leaders. Every human being now matter how smart they normally might be can fail to understand the most basic philosophic concepts when it comes to certain areas.
It is a new concept, to see biological males who identify as women, as a completely the same in every category group with biological women who identify as women.
Its about what is the difference between humans and animals.The real nature of human is that it can make what ever it wants out of its self.Thats the nature of human and thats the difference from the rest of the animal.The problem is that many,dont even realise the real nature of human even that thay see it around all the time.One makes him self astronaut,the other diver,the other covers all the body with tattoos etc etc.why is so difficult to understand that human is not a donkey to do the same like mama donkey,and its not a cow to do what mama cow do.Its siple as that.Open your eyes,the truth is around you,not in your fantasy!
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I'm trans and have been out for around two decades now. Living life was easier before all the madness started. I don't want to be politicized; I just want to live my life. Leave me alone.
Something something leopards ate my face.
@@theobell2002 What do you mean exactly?
"Leave me alone."
Who should leave you alone? No one cares who you are and what you do. It is not about you and never was. It is all about forcing ideology to people that do not care.
@Seba-dr7vv you're mad pressed about this person expressing how they feel.
@@inthedeadhours i'm not sure if guessing on ppl mood is your hobby, but once again - no one cares how do you feel. Your irrelevant feelings doesn't change reality.
"Verging on insanity?"
Dude, we're way past the finish line.
But insanity is now identified as sanity so everything is fine. Of course, fine is now identified as terrible so there is a problem.
I miss the pre trans gay movement. This is too much drama
Liberals in 2010: "Richard Dawkins is our hero for being a voice of reason!"
Liberals in 2024: "Richard Dawkins is evil for suggesting women don't have penises!"
It's a weirdest shit ever frankly 😂😂😂😂😂 liberals are so crazy
They have surpassed crazy evangelicals 😂😂 that's quite an achievement
Nah, everyone has a right to say dumb things.
I remember he got into some sort of controversy years back, but I can't remember what it was
Richard Dawkins is evil for promoting thousands of "gender normalization" surgeries on children under the age of 14 due to the absurd views that impose these harmful surgeries. In Poland alone, in 2021 alone, 6,800 genital surgeries were performed on intersex children, where the overwhelming majority of 99% were caused by adapting the appearance to "normal" genitals, where a huge number cause mutilation of the people subjected to these surgeries, including loss of sensation in the perineum and the ability to see the pleasure of love.
He believes that there are few intersex people (according to his smallest possible scale of counting intersex people, 10 million people in the world is too few to be considered people worthy of legal protection) to be sufficient to change the abstract definition in biology (because it has been changed in medicine) and that is why he does not recognize HUNDREDS of scientific studies in this field and considers this a reason to impose restrictions on freedom for people he officially despises as subhumans whose freedom and right to self-determination he does not recognize.
During 1935 era, Jazz in Germany was pronounced as "Wrong Jewish Music". Today Nazis are pronouncing boys who like playing dolls as "wrong people who should become Amputees". Wokeness Is just a fucking Nazism disguised differently. No wonder Russians smell that thingy for thousand miles and take preventive measures.
EVERYONE IN THE WORLD knows, REALLY knows that JK Rowling is right. It's rediculous that this is even an issue. Regards from a regular bloke in Hertfordshire who is mightily sick of all this bo * * * cks now.
Ridiculous. Not rediculous. Regards, Dutch transwoman teaching English to British.
This person could be dyslexic for example and that is why he spelled ridiculous wrongly. He could have written this in a rush therefore have no time to check it. @@Kikiyayazengardens
@@gothikgrlblack1733 But how can we run UA-cam without grammar Nazi's to keep us in line?
@@jerrylong6238 Oh, please. It's not a flag of a man of the people to be ignorant of how to spell it's haste, driven by negative emotion, or lack of education which is something to ponder.
@@gothikgrlblack1733reading his comment, he has many more issues than that. He is a egoist retard.
My best friend, now sadly dead, was a masculine woman. Her sensibilities and even physicality were quite masculine, but she was a happily heterosexual woman with four children and a much loved partner to the end of her days.
Sorry for your loss. I'm like that too. I'm a woman with a traditionally "masculine" personality and way of dressing but like men and am perfectly content inside my body. It's gotten to the point where both the extreme right and the extreme left (particularly trans ideology) say "if you're a woman and you're not traditionally femenine, you're not a real woman". It's horrible.
New Nazis are going to call everybody Transphobic, and gonna perform "Mass Amputations".
Dawkins has an underrated sense of humour
I had lunch with him. He is very engaging.
He has a very lunatic and dumb sense of humor! The stupidity of his arguments in this video is more foolish than any argument ever made by a religious person trying to prove the existence of God. His brain is rapidly deteriorating. I think it's quite understandable since he's of an advanced age.
I had brunch with him. He’s all shitss and giggles.
If ignorance is funny to you, then you must be a great party clown yourself because your ignorance is as funny as it can be.
@@williamwilson6499 Engaging in what way, did he try to eat your lunch or something?
I identify as rich. Ir hasn't helped at all.
Keep at it
I’m going to claim you owe me money just in case
Har!
Not a gender, try again
All you are doing is showing everyone how ignorant you are, and doing a damn good job of it might I add.
Why does Prof Dawkins think J K Rowling is right?
Because he has common sense!
Sadly, reality dissagrees with both but nazis don't... i know my side
@@WalterWhite-jz7ctprof Dawkins is just saying his opinion,
@@lewissmith350 So did the Nazis... worked out well, right?
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@bnsyphotography2104 Indeed. If I were to say that the planets in the solar system revolve around the Sun, that's not my opinion; it's a scientific fact.
:10 how can we even say that? South Park did a whole episode about a character changing race and Randy wanting to be a dolphin, of course we saw it coming but we did absolutely nothing
Finally! The atheist and theologian agrees!
Every normal sane human being agrees with JK Rowling.
Wrong, only transphobic bigots agree with her. So, we know what you are now, don't we?
Every un*duc@ted person with no gcses and a minimum wage Job agree with jk and the oaps..that's it lool 🤣🤣
the fact that "normal" to you means, presumably, straight, white and religious is almost to obvious
@@WalterWhite-jz7ct That is your own interpretation of normal. Mine is not being a lefty. All the left are not normal, The left are absolutely doolally.
@@WalterWhite-jz7ct Didn't realise I was calling the left abnormal did you? You know now.
Hopefully sanity will prevail. Dawkins makes perfect sense. Thank you.
On science he makes sense, but when it comes to Gender, he is clueless. He exposed that when he made the claim trans people just claim to be the Gender they want to be and think that makes them that Gender. A transwoman is just a woman born with a penis. And a transman is just a man born with a Viginia. It is just that simple, He knows and even admits a person can be born with both male and female Gentelia at the same time (hermaphrodites) therefore one set has to be the wrong one, correct? Well, that is the definition of a transperson. Someone born with the wrong Gentelia or in the wrong body whatever.
Their talk between 1:00 and 2:00 shows that question "what is a woman" is purely linguistic. Trans people don't deny biology, since they don't claim they have organs they don't have. And Dawkins admits there is a woman's brain, he just dislikes calling that person woman, which is linguistic issue.
“There is no absolute morality and there is no absolute truth.”
Chris Hitchens
For some reason the priest of atheism asserted this as such, but then again we all have our blind spots.
Going back to his argument. If there is no absolute truth and no absolute morality then there is subjective truth (opinion) and moral preference.
You might prefer children and I might disagree.
This is your preference. Who am I to stand in your way…
You might believe there is a god and I might disagree.
These are just your opinions, who am I to disagree, as the song goes…
You might believe men can be pregnant. It’s your opinion.
Dawkins is an old-school atheist, one who has been raised in a sea of Christianity, that is why he seeks to discover [absolute] truth through the scientific method.
All the while he is utterly oblivious to the fact that it is Church’s apostasy that brought about this militant atheism and the nonsense of transgenderism…
Cheers, infidels. You deserve it.
It’s not hard to make sense when the opposing view is completely nonsensical.
@@MichaelMcgee-nh9qt Yeah, Dawkins bigoted view is nonsensical alright.
Even to say that it's possible to "think like a woman" gives a lot of weight to sexist stereotypes. If you don't define sex by reproductive biology, there's no way to define it that ::doesn't:: rely on sexist stereotypes.
Sex is purely biological, and certainly not binary (though it's _largely_ binary.)
Gender is a social construct, and thus meaningless for many purposes.
That's because the only way a man can claim to be a woman is by clinging onto sex roles given that biology already denies their attempts to be seen as women. Also the fixated fetish some heterosexual men have with lesbians who they want access to.
Yes it's very, very conservative and it's just not true. People are more complex.
Sex is defined by reproductive Biology, or at least, assigned as such... gender isn't
Absolutely. How can a trans-identified male KNOW that he thinks 'like a woman' since he has never been a woman and therefore cannot possibly know how a woman thinks. Of course, it cannot occur to him that 'a woman' does not exist, only WOMEN exist, each one of whom thinks very much as an individual rather than via a hive mind or in conformity with sexist gender stereotypes. Quite demeaning to women, I would say.
Oh, how wonderful to feel so smug and right! How wonderful to judge an experience you have never had! How wonderful to know it all!
I’m so glad a man I admire so much doesn’t follow this lunacy!
A betrayal of language. Yes.
Could you please tell me where the singluar "they" originated from and if it predates the plural usage... since you are an expert
Prof. Dawkins. A voice of complete sanity in an increasingly WOKE, Insane World.
People really need to stop throwing the word ‘woke’ around. It’s just become something that is used to shut down any reasonable debate, particularly in matters of progressive attitudes, usually by people who don’t have a proper argument or any knowledge of the subject they’re discussing.
Woke is the perfect word for a world that’s asleep.
@@zappasmoustache23 All these wokers are just seeking attention .Of all the things we have come to unde stant with proof of science .If we some how forgot all that and had to rediscover .the new results and proof would be exactly the same as as what we understand now ..Wokeness would not .be the same
If by woke what you really mean is correct? then I agree with you 100%
@@nicholasdickens2801
If by woke one means fairness upheld by moral capital, everyone agrees. It's just that people can't agree on ethics.
Andrew Gold seems to worry about dying but as he becomes older that's likely to diminish. Most people I nursed when they were dying didn't appear afraid to die. There comes a point where you've had enough.
@@jansmith286 Or maybe just tired.
I fear death could be accelerated by relentless exposure to transgenderist crap.
Thank You so much 98% of the humans on planet earth stand with you and JKR
Transphobe!!!!
Richard Dawkins is one of my heroes, and this interview confirms this!
@@jonathangmallender Hero for talking simple sanity most people agree with? KJ Rowling perhaps is as she’s willing to go to prison and pay legal fees to defend women.
thats sad
@@MichaelMcgee-nh9qt He's very respectable yes, for sticking with the truth regardless of what it might do to his reputation. I can't say the same of other well known scientists like Bill Nye or Neal Degrasse Tyson
@@frenchbloo Bill Nye and Tyson are sold-out cowards. Still not being coward doesn’t mean you’re a hero. Perhaps respectable is the better word.
@@frenchbloo I posted an innocuous reply which got deleted. If you want to believe he’s a hero fine.
Dawkins talks perfect sense
That is not even sense much less perfect sense.
@@jerrylong6238
It is
@@andrewholdaway813 It is bulls**t alright.
@@jerrylong6238
You may or may not agree with him, but he makes sense.
@@andrewholdaway813 Yeah, he makes about as much sense as a screen door on a dam submarine.
How could someone who has lived as a man, was raised as a man and has been treated as man for his entire life even have the faintest idea of what it actually "feels" like to be a woman or vice versa?
If you remove whatever JKR has said, remove the context of her controversies and just look at it as a person who stood up for their beliefs against the mainstream: I think JKR is incredibly brave and admirable. She sacrificed being one of the most beloved children’s authors of all time to fight for something she believes in knowing full well how people behave on the internet and what will happen to her. JKR is not scared of other people’s opinions of her. She doesn’t need validation from others. That’s power. I wish I had that sort of strength of character.
It angers me that JKR will never feature on books like Little People Big Dreams because she’s become the scapegoat of toxic trans activism’s frustrations. JKr couldn’t be more gentle in her criticisms of some of the trans movement. If she is “evil” then everyone is, in some way, irredeemable.
People need to take Voltaire’s words more to heart: “I may not agree with you, But I defend you to the death your right to say it”
Jk Rowling is a hero,she is why intact biological men who have comitted s,x crimes are not being allowed to share cells with women in britain, she is a heroine, fighting Orwellian idealogy, for the sake of humanity.
Wonderfully written!
Richard is a nice looking man aging gracefully, standing up for the truth as he understands it and believes with every cell of his being.
Thank you Richard for setting me free from a superstitious Catholic upbringing. I am forever grateful.
83 years old. He looks unbelievable for this age.
"as he understands it" sounds alot like "can't teach them old folk bout how it is... they soon be gon anyway"
@@WalterWhite-jz7ct well Wal I guess that's evolutionary progress for you in action.
@@jackiedouglas4483 The old makes way for the new and what we known to be fact becomes obsolete... thats how it will always be
@@WalterWhite-jz7ct History is written by the Victors. That might always be so..
Mind you, with the advent of AI, what history we have lived and tried to capture honestly is getting blurrier.
I pity the next generation.
, said every generation since Adam and Eve! 😂
I don't. They will have the same issues, fighting the same fights just the subject will change. Women, pocs, gay and now trans... who knows what they deny next
Everyone knows she is right!! It's only the media and social media loons who don't -'I have not met a single person who does not agree with her. The media is so far removed from everyday life now - nobody takes it seriously
When Dawkins and many Christians agree on something large ideas are at stake indeed...
I was brought up by my grandfather and have been told my approach to work and life in general is male, never once have I identified as a man. Thank goodness I wasn’t brought up today. 🎉
Tomboys and butch still exist and are treated far better than they were back then but go off i guess
Ricky Gervais got it right. 10 years ago: “Dr, I feel like a pair of curtains. Dr says: “Pull yourself together man!” Now, “Dr, I feel like a pair of curtains.” Dr says: “Well you are then.”
Monty Python predicted this in the 1970s ,I believe ,, One of the male characters´in The Life of Brian wanted to have a womans name and have babies ,
Imagine having Richard Dawkins as your guest, and then proceeding to talk about yourself more often than asking questions....
I donated and fully supported the same version of trans rights but then it escalated to sports and no fooks given on AGP types being allowed in safe spaces for rape and prisons. It is too dangerous and insane at this point without requirements for women not born with a weiner. I respect JK Rowlins for risking her career to speak up for those that would be silenced.
I am pink....therefore i am spam.😂😂👍
I pink, therefore I spam.
good one!
Lovely spaaaaaam! Wonderful spaaaaaaam!!!!
Yh n probably just as intelligent 🤣🤣🤣😘😘😘😘
My understanding of the situation involves a person always feeling to have been someone of the opposite sex born in the wrong body. Many of them say the same thing, namely, that from their first memories they have felt this and nobody gave them this idea. The fact that I do not understand it beyond the above words does not make it wrong or crazy; it is simply beyond my experience. I am glad that I never have had to deal with this. How awful. It seems nature has played a really nasty trick on some unfortunates.
Nobody knows what it feels like to be another person whether they are male or female. I’m male, my best friend is male, but I don’t know what it feels like to be him. We share interests, sure, but we are not the same. So it bugs me when people say stupid things like “no man knows what it is to feel like a woman” well, neither does a woman know what it is to feel like another woman, expect the biological side of things, like menstruation etc. But psychologically, we are uniquely individual. Society is hell bent on placing people, especially those in a minority into a box, stick a label on it and place it on a shelf. In my opinion, everyone has their own box, there’s nobody else in there with you, because ‘ you are you, no one can know what it is to be you, and absolutely NOBODY has the right to tell you how to live your life’ which, is very short, so live to the full and BE YOURSELF.
And you believe that? How do you know they aren't lying?
@@John-nv5zyHow do you know anyone isn't lying? How do I know you're not a Chinese chatbot?
If you're even remotely interested in having a true opinion in the trans debate, you should probably spend some time listening to people who are going through the experience of being in the wrong body. It's called trusting other human beings. And you can still disagree with them afterwards. But so many issues today could be resolved by just having conversations with people outside of your bubble.
I think you are doing the topic a disservice by mixing together all gender issues into one "trans" topic. Transsexuality is an established diagnosis within psychology, while the long list of pronouns is not. That trans-women can't always enjoy the same rights that CIS women do - like in sports, is yet another topic, and many transpeople seem to understand this very well. Claiming that transsexuals are just confused men that need to snap out of it, I feel is beyond both you and JK. It's not about having a different gender behaviour than what is traditional. It's about identity, and I'm sure you can agree that feeling like a man is not connected to you "liking sports or cars". It's far deeper than that. With the pronouns-club, however, it may not be. Never simplify a topic that for many people is a matter of life and dad.
Consider how much money you’d have to be paid to permanently transition and go out in public, be with friends, family, at work etc. For a lot of people that figure does not exist. Obviously someone driven to do that voluntarily has a very different experience of themselves than you do. When you have a large number of people reporting a similar experience, it think it is rather arrogant and narrow minded to say “I can’t conceive of their experience, therefore it isn’t real.” As for what to do about it, that is a much harder question, but i will go out on a limb and suggest that one of the least qualified people to consult is JKR.
No one can say they think/feel like the opposite sex. Why? Because they are not, and have never been, the opposite sex. They think and feel like they the sex they are, because that's the sex they are.
Its no surprise so many Harry Potter fans believe in Trans: they are lifelong fans of childish magical fantasies after all
Anyone with a brain is on the side of JK Rowling
Ah yes, the woman who normalised slavery in her books for kids. Look, trans issues aside, JK Rowling is incredibly stupid. I don't even believe Dawkins likes Harry Potter.
It doesn't matter what gets discovered in physics, no matter how strange. None of it points to a god of any kind.
The closest thing would be the electron collision at near-light speed at the Large Hadron Collider, which is believed to be a possible origin of the universe and it’s been nicknamed “The God Particle”.
But men can be women of course... 😂😂😂
@@tonyflintclifton5440 Does that give you the horn?
@@eoinoconnor5783 Which says nothing about any god being real.
@@tonyflintclifton5440 Nobody is saying men can be women if that's what you got from this you missed the point.
Where did all this gender stuff originate? Who started it, and who ensured it became 'popular'?
😮look into john money and his gender experiments for starters. UN wef and Who global depopulationists are funding it.
@@Ghoti51 How has it been lucrative for them?
Gender academia the biggest group of scam artists that exist
@@imacmill lols they re making big bucks out the misery of these kids. Gender affirming medicine is not cheap and the more affirmed they are the more psychiatric support and medicine they need. It a goldmine.
Well, it was a big thing in ancient Rome, so it was thousands of years before anyone here today existed.
I identify myself as a cockroache.
I'm not taking any sides. I'll just go with science.
Science doesn't tell you much about the ethics and morals by which you should live your life though?
I do not know nor have I ever met a trans-person or a man who believes he's a woman and vice-versa, but what I think is that it would take an enormous amount of courage to say in public that you had become someone from the opposite sex. Think of how one's life would change forever with life-long friends abandoning you and family going through the roof and how one's mother would react or father. However, rather than have anything negative to say about their choice in life, I think the best thing is to simply accept their choice and not much more than that. Stay neutral. All you can say really is, "oh, I didn't know you felt that way." Why do I say that? Because life on its own just being the person you were born as and growing up a boy and becoming a man for example, is already a great challenge for a lot of men. Think of how complex one's life would be by outwardly saying that you have now changed sex because you thought about it and that now you are of the opposite sex! Do you see what I mean? I think we have to just accept the people who go over that line-in-the-sand navigate their way to where ever it is they are going and not get emotional about it or condemn them in any way, because they have got to live in the world too and more power to them if they feel they found their purpose in life.
You seem to have put a lot of thought into this. I can hardly disagree.
It can be courage that brings a person to 'come out' as Trans but so often it coexists with arrogance, anger and entitlement. It can also be a Fetish. There's a difference between getting on with ones life and trying to 'shove down the throat of everyone' your way of life. Men invading Women's Spaces is fraught with possible danger and is not just as simple as a Man putting on a Dress and saying call me Mary !
@@nicholaseager9201 GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I studied psychology at university, but I do not know a thing about the trans movement. I just know it's very, very hard to know how to react to something like this because it is out of our range of psychological tools. What is not needed is emotional outbursts and name-calling and the like. I know; I know; easy to say but hard to do.
@@TEKANNON-bz9fm As with every group there are always extremists and the silent majority are not heard from by definition. I'm Gay but my sexuality is only part of me. Basically I am Nicholas. An Englishman who happens to be Gay. Gay doesn't define me or control every aspect of my life. I expect RESPECT for who I am in totality. I don't expect 'special or different' treatment due to my sexuality. I also don't demand that everyone accepts my sexuality. People have a right to their opinion. However I have a right to be treated equally.
The trouble with extremists, be they Political, Sexuality, Gender...etc. driven is that some do not want equality but rather to be treated specially with extra rights and considerations. A sort of Equality Plus ! This is wrong.
TRANS are people of course and should be respected like everyone else else. But this works both ways and respect should be equal. If you have a Male Body, i.e. a Penis, then no matter if you wear a Dress you should realise that your presence in an environment intended for only Females, with Vaginas, is not appreciated. Males are generally physically stronger and are also the main sexual Predators. How many times do you get Women that want to enter Male Changing rooms for sexual excitement ? Women that think going into Male Toilets is sexy. Women that stealthily control an environment and lay in wait to physically pounce on and RAPE a Man ? I'd suggest NEVER ! The reverse situation of Men manipulating situations to abuse Women sexually is far too common.
For all these reasons above Trans Women ARE NOT WOMEN. They are Men that either just wear a Dress or have undergone Hormonal and Surgical treatment in order to IMITATE a Woman. They may say they're a Woman, may feel like one, dress like one etc. However their DNA and their early development has been that of a Male and this CANNOT be changed by any amount of Hormone taking or Surgical Procedures.
I have known one trans mtf person in my life. This person was under no illusion that they will never become a biological female. They wanted as far as possible to look like a woman, behave as a woman and so on. The person's mother said that her son had always been effeminate in any case and that is why he passed as a woman.
I'm surprised that no one brings up the obvious fact that our language(s) typically fail to distinguish between sex (which is biological) and gender (which is social). This alone will keep tripping us up, when we cannot get past the traps laid down by our own words.
The problem is that you're asking small-minded people to expand their understanding of the world. Even Dawkins in this clip says that there is a likelihood that there is a difference between a male brain and a female brain.
Some can't distinguish between that, sure. However a lot of people, including me and likely JK Rowling, don't think there is any difference and that the concept of a social constructed gender is more or less made up. What Dawkins said in the clip is that men can be more feminine and women more masculine in their ways or thinking. It doesn't change their gender/sex (gender = sex). To accept and embrace this range, the possibility that a man can be feminine and women masculine, should have been enough for everyone.
Neither JK Rowling nor me have anything against transwomen or transmen. Live as you like. But don't force other people to believe in your fake narrative.
I have seen this narrative, the social constructivist, postmodern, theories within gender studies and social sciences spread when I studied political science 2003-2011. I saw the "truth" be established. The craziness spread and no one dared to argue against it. But a lot of people have had enough. There will come a backlash to these absurdities. Unfortunately it will mostly come from the right side of the political spectrum.
@qp9vp gender does not = biological sex. That's where you and likely JK are wrong. Small-minded people. You must be a boomer.
@@gabrieledwards1066Gender doesn't justify males identifying as women.
@@Franeeky ffs, English must not be your first language. Google: Gender. Then Google: Justification.
Is it that big a problem? I hear so much about it but met a handful of trans people in my life. I've met a few who mighta made more sense as a different gender. I don't care.
‘The virtues of honest communication’ 👌
I'm sure Richard Dawkins will never forget that interview 🙈
At that old geezers age he probably forgot it that same day.
It was hardly memorable
And you can’t even spell geezer. 😂
@@linmorell1813 And that has what to do with anything we are talking about now?
@@linmorell1813 I must have got my point across to you because you understood it didn't you?
It's hard to remember, but all of the Trans and Pronoun propaganda really only started a decade ago, after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage and the movements' momentum was redirected towards Transgender rights. It wouldn't be such an issue if all this balderdash didn't flow down to impressionable teenagers.
Thank god for Richard Dawkins! (or rather thank the universe)
Thank Jupiter
If I ever have a band, I'm going to call it Trans Madness.
He can hardly say she's wrong 😂
Then i would work on my vocabulary, if I were you
Is this interviewer the son of Hugh Grant or something? so similar
what a truly awful interviewer. You have Richard Dawkins and you just talk 5x more than he does. Awful.
It was like watching Alan Partridge! 😅
He's not wrong
I,m middle-aged if ,140 is my preferred life expectancy
Man claim he ‘feels like a woman’
The feeling isn’t mutual
Yes yes yes, obviously you feel bigoted things. That's not a revelation, babe
Richard Dawkins is a shining beacon of reason and sense in this craziness of the internet !
Not a fan but yeah to a degree.
It's a shame he has to be such a transphobic bigot though.
thats sad
How widespread around the world is this transgender idea ? Surely it's not an issue or even discussed in every country!
You have no idea. Left parties in every country are trying to appeal to this ideology.
You need to be aware that this doesn't only consist of the men wearing women's clothes. Trans people are only used for virtue signalling. There are troll armies online who try to get everyone blocked who argues in any way against gender identity. Here on YT it's more subtle than elsewhere, here comments just get shadow banned. You don't notice but nobody gets the comments shown in their stream.
It's a cult that tries to get power and they force us to deny reality and accept made up nonsense and change our language, what we must say or must not say and how to say it. They are following the playbook for any ongoing dictator
There are laws put in place everywhere to force people to comply everywhere. Countries with left leaning governments are eager to implement them.
Look I don't get why this is so hard for people to get Noone thinks they can change their chromosomes sooo what is the delusion exactly
You have to earn respect i'm not going to cheapen it and through it round like confeti,when tolerance is the only thing that matters you believe in nothing.
I love your channel Andrew.
Bloody hell, Andrew, that was hard work wasn't ! Introduce him to the word elaborate.😂
'With regards to' - ouch
I don't get it. please explain.
'In regards to' is newish, ugly, and everywhere. That plural 'regards' is an ear-grind. Good writers and speakers would rather rip their own eyes out than be caught using 'with/in regards to'.
Just 'regarding' or (if you must) 'with regards to'.
Best, um, regards
Dunno. My basic diff w/transitioning is that it has become a medical situation. Hormones + often surgery are hugely problematic. My grandfather was a NY surgeon who refused doing purely cosmetic surgery but gave pro bono surgeries for abnormal deformities. Cleft palate et al.
For those who think their gender is biological- point to where your gender is on your body. If you think it has anything to do with your body parts- imagine you lost that particular body part. Are you still the same gender? How come? It’s really something you feel inside, not something attached to you.
Not a valid rationale. Your chromosomes aren't going to change just because you lost a limb. But, hey its cool these days to throw science out the window in favour of the realm of philosophy where 'I think therefore I am'.
@@lew6861 chromosomes determine sex, not gender.
That is correct that is why you would need to ask a person what Gender they are you cannot tell them what Gender they are no matter what you may think. I'm sure a lot of females (males also) out there have a much larger penis than I have.
@@lew6861 No trans person is saying that. That idea came from you.
You don't even "feel" gender, _per se,_ as it's a social construct.
Emotion collides with Rationality
Fact collides with "but my teacher in 8th grade said.."
@@WalterWhite-jz7ct What exactly is your mission here?
@@mipmip4575 I would love to tell you "educate the uneducated" but you lot have the internet and still failed so I doubt I can do much. To answer your question, im here to laugh at the ones to dumb to google and learn
There are a small percentage which feel and see themselves as the opposite sex from as early as can be remembered. In this sense like a female born into a male body. Complicated by the small amount of intersex people such as complete androgen insensitivity syndrome. However this tiny percentage of people is not the gender choice rebellion going on in 95% of trans people.
95% of percentages in UA-cam comments sections are pulled directly from the commentators ass. Plus there's a whole world of things we're not studying. Who knows if the amount of processed foods and other chemicals that we ingested for decades is affecting this. And while you're trying to figure this out why don't you come up with a solution for hard solipsism.
Again, being a man or woman is not a “feeling”. It is a biological reality determined by binary (female/male) gametes. Surgeries and hormones to “transition” have been proven to damage a person’s physical and mental health long term. There is no such thing as being born in the wrong body.
I disagree with your last sentence, but Andrew definitely thinks zero trans people exist and all intersex people are one sex or the other
I'm pretty sure that you couldn't get Christopher Hitchens in on the podcast....
Use a ai version.
Hopefully, UA-cam will show more "stuck poop" commercials 🤢
"I want to be tolerant and respect other people." "Gee why is this happening?" I can't.
Because of their confusion between boys and girls?
♦"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool."
♦"The delusional religious fools are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt."
♦"Only fools revere the supernatural myths just bc a book claims itself to be the holy truth."
♦"The religious believe by the millions what only lunatics could believe on their own."
♦"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
♦"It's difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
If swearing changes according to certain themes, perhaps tourette syndrome people are going to be our language thermometer.
What would we ever do without the sanity of Richard Dawkins 🤷🏼.
No one can see an absolute crazy phenomena coming.
I don't really understand why these guys are so angry about this. Like why should we care about the gender people identify with in the same way we don't care which sex a man or woman sleeps with. Also, as a scientist, when was the last time you judged someone based on their chromosomes? We just go on how people present. There are far bigger issues in the world. Disappointed that Dawkins has lost sight of his roots.
In most situations we don't need to care, but in some like women's safe spaces, and women's sports, it is unfair and has dangers to not acknowledge biological sex exists. Dawkins was friends with Jan Morris before most of his ignorant haters were born, he does NOT hate trans people, he has a intelligent nuanced view on the issue, supporting tolerance, within the confines, of accepting biological sex exists, not a puritan idealogical zealotry, of putting trans rights extremism above every human experience. The overbearing bullying arrogant aggressive mansplaining impervious macho nature of most extreme trans rights activists is indicative of sex differences, and why we need some recognition in laws and safeguarding that biological women exist, it's just glaring reality. Like me I can tell which people are men and which are women, evolution made that useful adaption for us. Love to all, ❤❤
I also read Harry Potter in every language I learn
AS you get older you get ready for death. It's inevitable. I'm still a nineteen year old in my 60th decade, I don't believe in the Abrahamic gods any more, I hope I'm coming back as a Hawthorn or a Holly tree - just to hang around and listen to the birdsong.
The greatest thing mankind has to find out is how we can preserve a memory ..There just has to be a way ..
Writing.
Mr Garison obviously left an impression on Mr Dawkins
I wish Christopher Hichens was about to see this
We need more……
more hate? You'll find it here, im sure
Replace "thinks" with "understands" and your title is clear.
thinks is too generalized
I would imagine because she is right.
You can imagine just about any dam thing on Earth though.
Media promotes madnesses. Extremes attract clicks. Got it?
Certainly Dawkins is not denying Dysphoria and it's clinical certainty.
Nothing scares me more than infinite boredom in heaven, if that’s the main selling point of a religion then I can only pray that my death is the end
Nonsense. You get to go on picnics with black widow spiders, great white sharks, wolverines, tyrannosaurus rexes, and brown snakes. It will be wonderful.
@@kingy002lol😅
Lost me at Harry Potter I'm afraid.
The poetry of reality…
“Natural is all there can be,
Nothing else is real.
‘Super’natural is clearly silly
At least, that’s what I feel.
As a very clever Prof.,
I can see at once
That ‘trans’ ⚧ is fugging stupid stuff;
To think awry I’d be a dunce.
Christ of course is something else,
I’ll accept he did exist;
But to say he died upon a cross
To save us, that’s ridiculis!”
R Dawkins PhD (Oxon) (Zoology)
Probably because you never lived outside your bubble, there always has been people who are what now are called transgender, it’s just that earlier their parents and community either shunned or killed them due to religion. Also it’s ironically due to religion that we have these binary rules and men growing their hair long and women wearing trousers already rejected the binary without using those words. How people define themselves is a direct consequence of our societal rules and what religious doctrine has caused. Side note, there are no words you can’t say, they only have consequences. The ruling class had laws making black people (and women) property and people in the lgbtq+ community were legally tortured and jailed for their orientation and we’ve made a (very small) acknowledgment of it.
Women still are property in Islamic countries. I find your conflation of colour and gender "black people and women" deeply offensive. Gender and race are very different characteristics. Does a "black women" count double in your bubble?
> Also, it’s ironically due to religion that we have these binary rules and men growing their hair long and women wearing trousers already rejected the binary without using those words. How people define themselves is a direct consequence of our societal rules and what religious doctrine has caused. Side note, there are no words you can’t say, they only have consequences.
According to you, men who happen to grow long hair and paint nails and women having short hair and wearing shorts are so "rare" and "unheard of" that they need a special word? Metrosexual wasn't a thing, androgynous wasn't a thing, gender non-conforming wasn't a thing? Het men and women who do these things are actually queer and "trans in denial" ?
As a woman from a non-western, homophobic country and not straight herself, your TQ+ folk has to touch some grass, that thinking is sexist as hell.
There's more visibility to trans people, but I hardly doubt mentally sane trans folk would pressure lesbians to sleep with them or make up xer/xir/ e.t.c. pronouns
@@limyrob1383 actually I didn’t say “black people and women” and though the form I used was for brevity without nuance, I wasn’t conflating the two groups. You would have a better argument if you pointed out that some „white“ groups such as the Irish were also treated as property by the ruling class but perhaps you had reasons. Also, America will likely attempt to make women (and other parts of the population 😉) legally property again if the religion industry succeeds in their Project 2025 plans
Here’s the thing… most trans people I know… and yes, I know a few… happily accept that on a biological level, they are the sex they were born as. However they feel and would like to present, live and be treated as if they were not that sex. - trans men understand and accept that they were born female but wish to live their life as a man… as a male.
Richard and JK Rowling come in to difficulty when they have to keep hammering home that trans people are not biologically the gender they identify as, and therefore cannot identify with the experiences of the gender they feel they are. I personally think they are being weirdly obstinate and forgetting that language and understanding of gender has changed constantly over the millennia.
There have been many studies that show that some people have more masculine and or feminine brains and Dawkins, admitting he hasn’t done much research on that, really surprises and disappoints me.
No. Rubbish.
@@Franeeky Do you care to expand? Or you just trolling?
I think the point is not so much as them living in they way they want, I think that’s perfectly fine if they want o live as men or women, I think the controversy is over the fact that some trans women and activists want not only to be treated as women but they also want to be included in certain activities that they are not suited to, such as going to a gynecologist, or participating in women’s sport when most of then have clearly a biological advantage even after years of hormonal treatment. That’s The main issue and that bio women are not being hear:d and their rights and concerns are put below trans women, you don’t see this happening with trans men. I have yet to see or hear about a trans men complaining of being discriminated in men’s sports or wanting to be included in men’s spaces etc. or claiming that he can impregnate a biological woman, like trans women do when claiming women’s spaces, being able to menstruate or even give birth.
Imagine having a guest like Richard Dawkins and just talking mostly shit. What a wasted opportunity
Certainly not a generational opinion
No one is forcing anyone to be trans.
Really? You have to be joking. It's now wall-to-wall transgenderist propaganda. This has now saturated the whole of civil society. I'm sure we all know someone who has been 'cancelled', 'no platformed', or sacked from a job because of gender-critical opinions. Not to mention the countless legions who shut their gobs and hold their silence for fear of losing their livelihoods and/or reputations. But this is not as bad as it gets. Those who are really in the firing line are vulnerable adolescents, who find puberty challenging and develop mental health issues, or who are autistic. These are the young people who, getting no real help, are deftly 'pushed' into surgery and/or cross-sex hormones by so-called 'professionals' who should know better. I had anorexia nervosa at the age of 15. Yes, it was a protest against the constraints of femininity, but that did not make me any less a (young) woman. It was 1963 at the time of second-wave feminism. Fortunately for me I was not born fifty or sixty years later. Had that been the case I would have had a good chance of being mastectomised, and my body injected with testosterone, perhaps with the 'advice' that I should complete my 'transition' with surgery to construct a penis.
I can only be grateful for my good fortune in being born at the time I was.
robert sapolsky talks about the male and femake brain too
No one saw it coming 😮 and I don't what to respect everyone, why would I. I'm totally opposed to it 🎉
There are no women in the top 25 (WESPA rated) Scrabble players. Why? I don't know. Same with chess, over 2000 grandmasters out there but only 42 are women. So there must be some brain differences or is it just cultural? On the other hand I have never seen a man manage to take off a jumper with their arms crossed, like women do so easily...
Women also know what colour curtains should be and men, so we are told, do not.
@@CarmenVeranda Yes but gay men are apparently experts in interior decorating. So they say...
@@bernmahan1162 Ah, gay men, yes. Trans women (ie born men) not so much (apart from the ones who used to be interior decorators perhaps).
Women don't need to compete with other women in the same way men compete with men. Chess is mostly just a way for men to brag about how smart they are. They play chess to indicate their superiority to other men. Women have no impetus to do this so few women play chess.
There are also women-only competitions in chess. There are no men-only competitions which does suggest a male advantage.
I grew up in the 90s and trans people existing was a normal thing for me since I remember. So Dawkins acting as if it was a new thing is just embarrassing. It's sad to see one of my heroes of logic and reason deconstruction himself as prejudiced and ignorant but it shows what he always preached: There are no universal role models or intellectual leaders. Every human being now matter how smart they normally might be can fail to understand the most basic philosophic concepts when it comes to certain areas.
He hasn’t failed to understand philosophic concepts lmao. He’s rightly criticizing an incoherent ideology. Dawkins rules
It is a new concept, to see biological males who identify as women, as a completely the same in every category group with biological women who identify as women.
Future clowns cancelling people for saying coal? LMAO
What about people who have both female and male parts?
They fall within the binary
Its about what is the difference between humans and animals.The real nature of human is that it can make what ever it wants out of its self.Thats the nature of human and thats the difference from the rest of the animal.The problem is that many,dont even realise the real nature of human even that thay see it around all the time.One makes him self astronaut,the other diver,the other covers all the body with tattoos etc etc.why is so difficult to understand that human is not a donkey to do the same like mama donkey,and its not a cow to do what mama cow do.Its siple as that.Open your eyes,the truth is around you,not in your fantasy!
Duh.. why is this even a question?