New ‘New Atheist’ Cry: There Is No Trans

Yes, Dawkins did fall down the transphobia rabbit hole. QED.

Tucker Lieberman
11 min readNov 12, 2023

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Cracked egg by Mabel Amber from Pixabay

Richard Dawkins, a biologist famous for his book The Selfish Gene (1976) and for his later collaboration with the New Atheists, made a transphobic tweet in April 2021. Consequently, the American Humanist Association revoked an award it had given him 25 years earlier. One might imagine there…

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Tucker Lieberman

Editor for Prism & Pen. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." https://tuckerlieberman.com/