New ‘New Atheist’ Cry: There Is No Trans
Yes, Dawkins did fall down the transphobia rabbit hole. QED.
11 min readNov 12, 2023
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…