Richard Dawkins: JK Rowling is RIGHT About Trans Madness

[@vigfhfc]

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.

[@theobell2002]

Something something leopards ate my face.

[@vigfhfc]

@@theobell2002 What do you mean exactly?

[@Seba-dr7vv]

"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]

​@Seba-dr7vv you're mad pressed about this person expressing how they feel.

[@Seba-dr7vv]

@@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.

[@Jeremy-ql1or]

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!"

[@bluenick4577]

It's a weirdest shit ever frankly 😂😂😂😂😂 liberals are so crazy They have surpassed crazy evangelicals 😂😂 that's quite an achievement

[@CCS565]

Nah, everyone has a right to say dumb things.

[@AlsoBrandonSmith]

I remember he got into some sort of controversy years back, but I can't remember what it was

[@____-nr5sx]

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.

[@LaplacianDalembertian]

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.

[@jonathandorozowsky4005]

"Verging on insanity?" Dude, we're way past the finish line.

[@Jeremy-ql1or]

But insanity is now identified as sanity so everything is fine. Of course, fine is now identified as terrible so there is a problem.

[@jamessorrel]

I miss the pre trans gay movement. This is too much drama

[@southsiren]

I feel like all this madness got started when Bruce Jenner crossed that finish line first

[@paulmorgancollings7833]

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.

[@Kikiyayazengardens]

Ridiculous. Not rediculous. Regards, Dutch transwoman teaching English to British.

[@gothikgrlblack1733]

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]

@@gothikgrlblack1733 But how can we run KZbin without grammar Nazi's to keep us in line?

[@EvelynBaron]

@@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.

[@franzleiermann4955]

​@@gothikgrlblack1733reading his comment, he has many more issues than that. He is a egoist retard.

[@sarah2go]

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.

[@infjelphabasupporter8416]

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.

[@LaplacianDalembertian]

New Nazis are going to call everybody Transphobic, and gonna perform "Mass Amputations".

[@Michael-uk3pj]

Why does Prof Dawkins think J K Rowling is right? Because he has common sense!

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

Sadly, reality dissagrees with both but nazis don't... i know my side

[@lewissmith350]

​@@WalterWhite-jz7ctprof Dawkins is just saying his opinion,

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

@@lewissmith350 So did the Nazis... worked out well, right?

[@shemdig]

!!

[@Johnny-sj9sj]

@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.

[@JudoP_slinging]

Dawkins has an underrated sense of humour

[@williamwilson6499]

I had lunch with him. He is very engaging.

[@Jesse47249]

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.

[@youngdylan5083]

I had brunch with him. He’s all shitss and giggles.

[@jerrylong6238]

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.

[@jerrylong6238]

@@williamwilson6499 Engaging in what way, did he try to eat your lunch or something?

[@PapaDon46]

I identify as rich. Ir hasn't helped at all.

[@tomashize]

Keep at it

[@daheikkinen]

I’m going to claim you owe me money just in case

[@DieFlabbergast]

Har!

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

Not a gender, try again

[@jerrylong6238]

All you are doing is showing everyone how ignorant you are, and doing a damn good job of it might I add.

[@rememberme3852]

Every normal sane human being agrees with JK Rowling.

[@jerrylong6238]

Wrong, only transphobic bigots agree with her. So, we know what you are now, don't we?

[@jadebel7006]

Every un*duc@ted person with no gcses and a minimum wage Job agree with jk and the oaps..that's it lool 🤣🤣

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

the fact that "normal" to you means, presumably, straight, white and religious is almost to obvious

[@rememberme3852]

@@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.

[@rememberme3852]

@@WalterWhite-jz7ct Didn't realise I was calling the left abnormal did you? You know now.

[@TonyHavenMusic]

: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

[@tezz2698]

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?

[@sarahblaquiere3121]

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.

[@UncleKennysPlace]

Sex is purely biological, and certainly not binary (though it's _largely_ binary.) Gender is a social construct, and thus meaningless for many purposes.

[@ijansk]

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.

[@notaclue822]

Yes it's very, very conservative and it's just not true. People are more complex.

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

Sex is defined by reproductive Biology, or at least, assigned as such... gender isn't

[@993Redveg]

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.

[@AS-rx4tp]

Hopefully sanity will prevail. Dawkins makes perfect sense. Thank you.

[@jerrylong6238]

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.

[@goranmilic442]

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.

[@kingdomzion5234]

“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.

[@MichaelMcgee-nh9qt]

It’s not hard to make sense when the opposing view is completely nonsensical.

[@jerrylong6238]

@@MichaelMcgee-nh9qt Yeah, Dawkins bigoted view is nonsensical alright.

[@northshorelight35]

Finally! The atheist and theologian agrees!

[@FECtetra1918]

I’m so glad a man I admire so much doesn’t follow this lunacy!

[@rv-jn7wn]

Thank You so much 98% of the humans on planet earth stand with you and JKR

[@lifeisactuallyveryboring.7771]

Transphobe!!!!

[@jansmith286]

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.

[@MichaelMcgee-nh9qt]

@@jansmith286 Or maybe just tired.

[@993Redveg]

I fear death could be accelerated by relentless exposure to transgenderist crap.

[@Quidwitchh]

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”

[@lewissmith350]

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.

[@annetteb.3633]

Wonderfully written!

[@jonathangmallender]

Richard Dawkins is one of my heroes, and this interview confirms this!

[@MichaelMcgee-nh9qt]

@@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.

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

thats sad

[@frenchbloo]

@@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

[@MichaelMcgee-nh9qt]

@@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.

[@MichaelMcgee-nh9qt]

@@frenchbloo I posted an innocuous reply which got deleted. If you want to believe he’s a hero fine.

[@nicholaseager9201]

Prof. Dawkins. A voice of complete sanity in an increasingly WOKE, Insane World.

[@zappasmoustache23]

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.

[@nicholasdickens2801]

Woke is the perfect word for a world that’s asleep.

[@framethis]

@@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

[@jerrylong6238]

If by woke what you really mean is correct? then I agree with you 100%

[@justanothernick3984]

​@@nicholasdickens2801 If by woke one means fairness upheld by moral capital, everyone agrees. It's just that people can't agree on ethics.

[@ComradeVissarionovic]

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.

[@robynbrouckaert8304]

A betrayal of language. Yes.

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

Could you please tell me where the singluar "they" originated from and if it predates the plural usage... since you are an expert

[@jackiedouglas4483]

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.

[@kingy002]

83 years old. He looks unbelievable for this age.

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

"as he understands it" sounds alot like "can't teach them old folk bout how it is... they soon be gon anyway"

[@jackiedouglas4483]

@@WalterWhite-jz7ct well Wal I guess that's evolutionary progress for you in action.

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

@@jackiedouglas4483 The old makes way for the new and what we known to be fact becomes obsolete... thats how it will always be

[@jackiedouglas4483]

@@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.

[@andrewholdaway813]

Dawkins talks perfect sense

[@jerrylong6238]

That is not even sense much less perfect sense.

[@andrewholdaway813]

@@jerrylong6238 It is

[@jerrylong6238]

@@andrewholdaway813 It is bulls**t alright.

[@andrewholdaway813]

@@jerrylong6238 You may or may not agree with him, but he makes sense.

[@jerrylong6238]

@@andrewholdaway813 Yeah, he makes about as much sense as a screen door on a dam submarine.

[@PrivateAccountXSG]

Imagine having Richard Dawkins as your guest, and then proceeding to talk about yourself more often than asking questions....

[@kevanbodsworth9868]

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 ,

[@55tranquility]

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

[@nicholasdickens2801]

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.”

[@elizabeth3280]

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.

[@tomgreene1843]

When Dawkins and many Christians agree on something large ideas are at stake indeed...

[@linmorell1813]

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. 🎉

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

Tomboys and butch still exist and are treated far better than they were back then but go off i guess

[@wharfedalelodge502]

I pity the next generation.

[@Sam-nk6hk]

, said every generation since Adam and Eve! 😂

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

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

[@lynnmckenna9934]

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!

[@DickyMorin]

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.

[@karencharlton1796]

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-nv5zy]

And you believe that? How do you know they aren't lying?

[@Pssybart]

​@@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.

[@thomasdahl2232]

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.

[@dyhidrogenmonoxide]

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.

[@imacmill]

Where did all this gender stuff originate? Who started it, and who ensured it became 'popular'?

[@LisaStandish]

😮look into john money and his gender experiments for starters. UN wef and Who global depopulationists are funding it.

[@imacmill]

@@Ghoti51 How has it been lucrative for them?

[@flowermeerkat6827]

Gender academia the biggest group of scam artists that exist

[@LisaStandish]

@@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.

[@jerrylong6238]

Well, it was a big thing in ancient Rome, so it was thousands of years before anyone here today existed.

[@asher6648]

I identify myself as a cockroache.

[@imacmill]

It doesn't matter what gets discovered in physics, no matter how strange. None of it points to a god of any kind.

[@eoinoconnor5783]

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”.

[@tonyflintclifton5440]

But men can be women of course... 😂😂😂

[@imacmill]

@@tonyflintclifton5440 Does that give you the horn?

[@jerrylong6238]

@@eoinoconnor5783 Which says nothing about any god being real.

[@jerrylong6238]

@@tonyflintclifton5440 Nobody is saying men can be women if that's what you got from this you missed the point.

[@kimberlyf4888]

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.

[@gobsmacked.62]

I am pink....therefore i am spam.😂😂👍

[@imacmill]

I pink, therefore I spam.

[@PapaDon46]

good one!

[@DinoAlberini]

Lovely spaaaaaam! Wonderful spaaaaaaam!!!!

[@jadebel7006]

Yh n probably just as intelligent 🤣🤣🤣😘😘😘😘

[@TEKANNON-bz9fm]

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.

[@bruderk4257]

You seem to have put a lot of thought into this. I can hardly disagree.

[@nicholaseager9201]

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 !

[@TEKANNON-bz9fm]

@@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.

[@nicholaseager9201]

@@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.

[@gothikgrlblack1733]

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.

[@GrayMansEndlessIncite]

Its no surprise so many Harry Potter fans believe in Trans: they are lifelong fans of childish magical fantasies after all

[@rankinlas]

‘The virtues of honest communication’ 👌

[@Lexicophage]

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.

[@gabrieledwards1066]

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.

[@qp9vp]

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.

[@gabrieledwards1066]

@qp9vp gender does not = biological sex. That's where you and likely JK are wrong. Small-minded people. You must be a boomer.

[@Franeeky]

​@@gabrieledwards1066Gender doesn't justify males identifying as women.

[@gabrieledwards1066]

@@Franeeky ffs, English must not be your first language. Google: Gender. Then Google: Justification.

[@BrianFinnegan-cn5mk]

Anyone with a brain is on the side of JK Rowling

[@bencutting146]

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.

[@md9763]

I'm sure Richard Dawkins will never forget that interview 🙈

[@jerrylong6238]

At that old geezers age he probably forgot it that same day.

[@andrewholdaway813]

It was hardly memorable

[@linmorell1813]

And you can’t even spell geezer. 😂

[@jerrylong6238]

@@linmorell1813 And that has what to do with anything we are talking about now?

[@jerrylong6238]

@@linmorell1813 I must have got my point across to you because you understood it didn't you?

[@chris_thornborrow]

what a truly awful interviewer. You have Richard Dawkins and you just talk 5x more than he does. Awful.

[@analogambyth4170]

It was like watching Alan Partridge! 😅

[@rudiklein]

I'm not taking any sides. I'll just go with science.

[@bencutting146]

Science doesn't tell you much about the ethics and morals by which you should live your life though?

[@alexking8610]

Richard Dawkins is a shining beacon of reason and sense in this craziness of the internet !

[@MichaelMcgee-nh9qt]

Not a fan but yeah to a degree.

[@jerrylong6238]

It's a shame he has to be such a transphobic bigot though.

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

thats sad

[@mrwrightc7]

I think atheists should be careful. They claim to know the God of the religion they have heard of does not exist. However, so could a follower of the true God…

[@GodmyX]

Thank god for Richard Dawkins! (or rather thank the universe)

[@lewissmith350]

Thank Jupiter

[@flowermeerkat6827]

I love your channel Andrew.

[@clydebridger1379]

How widespread around the world is this transgender idea ? Surely it's not an issue or even discussed in every country!

[@gzoechi]

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

[@gzoechi]

There are laws put in place everywhere to force people to comply everywhere. Countries with left leaning governments are eager to implement them.

[@krisbest6405]

I,m middle-aged if ,140 is my preferred life expectancy

[@MiloSatori]

Ive read his books, I like what he says.

[@bluestyled]

Is this interviewer the son of Hugh Grant or something? so similar

[@Kelly-je8gv]

Man claim he ‘feels like a woman’ The feeling isn’t mutual

[@connor5669]

Yes yes yes, obviously you feel bigoted things. That's not a revelation, babe

[@pokie6087]

He's not wrong

[@thetabletopskirmisher]

He can hardly say she's wrong 😂

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

Then i would work on my vocabulary, if I were you

[@RosalindMartin-cw1nj]

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.

[@domdiddy7209]

Bloody hell, Andrew, that was hard work wasn't ! Introduce him to the word elaborate.😂

[@stevenpower811]

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.

[@heatheryovanoff6361]

What would we ever do without the sanity of Richard Dawkins 🤷🏼.

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

If I ever have a band, I'm going to call it Trans Madness.

[@acmelka]

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.

[@S.D.323]

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

[@michaelfoort2592]

Emotion collides with Rationality

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

Fact collides with "but my teacher in 8th grade said.."

[@mipmip4575]

@@WalterWhite-jz7ct What exactly is your mission here?

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

@@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

[@ChrisCrook]

I'm pretty sure that you couldn't get Christopher Hitchens in on the podcast....

[@lewissmith350]

Use a ai version.

[@AtamMardes]

♦"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."

[@ryanjaceodonnell]

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.

[@lew6861]

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'.

[@ryanjaceodonnell]

@@lew6861 chromosomes determine sex, not gender.

[@jerrylong6238]

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.

[@jerrylong6238]

@@lew6861 No trans person is saying that. That idea came from you.

[@UncleKennysPlace]

You don't even "feel" gender, _per se,_ as it's a social construct.

[@mrwrightc7]

I have a feeling that the “identifying as a dog” is in the “+” 👀

[@sbeasley1785]

I would imagine because she is right.

[@jerrylong6238]

You can imagine just about any dam thing on Earth though.

[@notreallydavid]

'With regards to' - ouch

[@genesisbustamante-durian]

I don't get it. please explain.

[@notreallydavid]

'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

[@samhill618]

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.

[@limyrob1383]

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?

[@himalayansalt32]

> 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

[@samhill618]

@@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

[@zenster1097]

"I want to be tolerant and respect other people." "Gee why is this happening?" I can't.

[@carolinemacrae6227]

Because of their confusion between boys and girls?

[@JosephCymrank]

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.

[@gabrieledwards1066]

95% of percentages in KZbin 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.

[@flowerfield3468]

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.

[@connor5669]

I disagree with your last sentence, but Andrew definitely thinks zero trans people exist and all intersex people are one sex or the other

[@miguelgarcia_guitarra]

If swearing changes according to certain themes, perhaps tourette syndrome people are going to be our language thermometer.

[@ricardoferreira67]

I also read Harry Potter in every language I learn

[@mac2312]

Mr Garison obviously left an impression on Mr Dawkins

[@stardust_memories2260]

Hopefully, KZbin will show more "stuck poop" commercials 🤢

[@humphrey4976]

I wish Christopher Hichens was about to see this

[@nicholasdickens2801]

No one can see an absolute crazy phenomena coming.

[@KatchieAnanda]

We need more……

[@WalterWhite-jz7ct]

more hate? You'll find it here, im sure

[@framethis]

The greatest thing mankind has to find out is how we can preserve a memory ..There just has to be a way ..

[@kakmaster6945]

Writing.

[@OliverAlexandre-d9w]

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)

[@OBGynKenobi]

Certainly Dawkins is not denying Dysphoria and it's clinical certainty.

[@rachellandry3116]

Replace "thinks" with "understands" and your title is clear. thinks is too generalized

[@bencutting146]

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.

[@lewissmith350]

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, ❤❤

[@Oysters176]

People shouldn't 'identify' as something. At most, people should identify as British, French, Amerindian.

[@bencutting146]

@ My point still stands. Why do you care about a largely harmless group of people which, in my country, accounts for 0.55% population at most? It's just a scare tactic designed to distract people from the real issues of wealth inequality and rapidly failing public services. Do you ever comment about that online or just 'woke' issues?

[@lewissmith350]

​​​@@bencutting146but in that case, if inequality and all this, are such big problems. Why are there people focusing on trying to put biological males in women's sports when they could be focusing on inequality and all the terrible things in the world. Like you you could have gone on a profile on KZbin comments and gone on about encouraging equality and encouraging socialism and encouraging,. Peace. There are 500000 homeless people in the USA, have you any time why have you got any time to write comments criticising those standing up for women's rights, and just stating the reality that biological sex exists it just does it's just a glaring reality, when you could have spent all that time arguing against homelessness in favour of better taxes on the rich for the poor. You could have been arguing for stronger links with Europe to increase our economy. Instead instead of something useful like that you're going on this comment section going on about a tiny unimportant issue that that affects hardly anybody, and all for the idealogical mantras that really few supports and fewer really believes in, wouldn't it be better if you just let people you know defeat the kind of trans extremist argument, and then just argue against homelessness and aren't you against war and argue against hate and argue against racism you know wouldn't it be better to do something more useful. And if you comment on this then I will realise that really your main interest is this issue, and really you're just interested in opposing gender critical beliefs such as belief that biological sex is important or belief that biological woman rights are important you know. Just don't comment on this just go on somewhere and argue against homelessness or are you against health inequality do that do something useful. Like in Scotland the Green party were elected on a manifesto of supporting the environment, and when the Scottish government said oh no we're not going to do this recycling bottle scheme, they said that's ok we'll stay in the government when really that was the thing they should have left the government about, but when it when the Scottish government said we're not going to have have puberty blockers in such a way anymore because of the cass report, they left the government not because of environmental issues not because of social issues not because of economic issues but because of something which really they had no idea about their not experts on puberty blockers they don't know anything about the subject they left the government over something that's nothing to do with the environment. Really the people that are unfair and jaded on this, are the trans rates extremists who are willing to leave government's lose elections,Ike happened to Kamala on this issue, but don't actually stand up for Peace don't stand up for a tax rates on the Ritz they don't stand up for social services they don't stand up for public services. They bully JK Rowling and they bully innocent women who are just saying they don't want biological males in women's sport. If the trans rights extremists who hate JK Rowling, and hate innocent biological female athletes who are just saying they don't want biological meals in women's sports had spent all that time focusing on on opposing homelessness, then they would have done something far more use. So hey I'm going to continue saying the truth the biological sex exists it does does it's a glaring reality and if anybody says otherwise I'm still going to disagree with them, I'm still going to say I think in reality women should be entitled to say you know there's such a thing as a man and such a thing as a woman because affects their safety and safeguarding, I am going to say trans people deserve respect, and nobody should bully them, or call them mean names, but also I'm going to argue for a socialism and equality and liberalism and freedom, but I don't think it's fair for you to claim that pretending biological woman and biological male don't exist is some kind of left wing idea because it isn't, what we should do if we should love trance people have part of our society they are as much part of our society as anybody else and I oppose any bullying against them but I do also believe that we should have a society where we accept biological woman and biological man exist and we should have laws that are new and accept that but we can also also have socialism and equality and freedom and liberalism.

[@HowardNorris-gh1jw]

Why are all these celebrity atheists so religiously judgemental?

[@lewissmith350]

Because evolution made humans to be judgemental, with the help of God.

[@Ana_crusis]

He thinks she's right because we all do, she is right

[@peteconrad2077]

If we all did there wouldn’t be a debate.

[@Ana_crusis]

@@peteconrad2077 there is no debate as far as I'm concerned the idea that a man can become a woman is Ludicrous, completely irrational and illogical

[@jerrylong6238]

Not all, because you do not speak for me and millions of transpeople around the world.

[@Ana_crusis]

@@jerrylong6238 if you are a person who is a man and wants to live as a woman, (or visa versa) that's fine. Nobody cares. Our issue is really with logic and science and biology. You remain the sex you were born as. For a man to want to be a woman, to think he is a woman and to dress and act as a woman is one thing. For him, and other people to actually pretend that he *_really_* is a woman is quite another, unacceptable delusion. That's the entire discussion in a nutshell.

[@ronhall9394]

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.

[@SirNobody1795]

Why would you want to be a tree?

[@christianschneeberger2736]

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.

[@Franeeky]

No. Rubbish.

[@christianschneeberger2736]

@@Franeeky Do you care to expand? Or you just trolling?

[@erikamarrufo8541]

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.

[@RighteousBrother]

Lost me at Harry Potter I'm afraid.

[@TonyHavenMusic]

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

[@kingy002]

Nonsense. You get to go on picnics with black widow spiders, great white sharks, wolverines, tyrannosaurus rexes, and brown snakes. It will be wonderful.

[@FECtetra1918]

@@kingy002lol😅

[@michaelhyde9070]

No one saw it coming 😮 and I don't what to respect everyone, why would I. I'm totally opposed to it 🎉

[@RosalindMartin-cw1nj]

Media promotes madnesses. Extremes attract clicks. Got it?

[@britasha1194]

Future clowns cancelling people for saying coal? LMAO

[@rhabdob3895]

Certainly not a generational opinion

[@UncleFlaynus]

No one is forcing anyone to be trans.

[@993Redveg]

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.

[@ΧρήστοςΧρηστος-φ1κ]

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!

[@PureHairdressing-k7w]

because he has common sense....

[@lewissmith350]

Too right, Dawkins is clever.