New ‘New Atheist’ Cry: There Is No Trans

<p>The reason this particular incident hit home for me is that I had, a couple years earlier, made a large effort to network in-person with an international group of humanists and atheists. I had assumed that a secular group would be trans-inclusive or at least not outright transphobic. It hadn&rsquo;t occurred to me to gauge the community sentiment.</p> <p>Upon Dawkins&rsquo;s tweet and the subsequent debate over the revocation of his award, I was sorely disappointed that some of my new acquaintances and colleagues explicitly defended his overtly transphobic comment.</p> <p>To be clear, I wasn&rsquo;t any more annoyed by Dawkins&rsquo;s transphobic tweet itself than I am by any other of the millions of transphobic tweets that are made every day. I didn&rsquo;t care whether Dawkins lost an award or not; I didn&rsquo;t care which atheist organizations did or didn&rsquo;t cut ties with him over what I believed was a single comment. I wasn&rsquo;t upset merely because a famous atheist showed his ass.</p> <p><a href="https://tuckerlieberman.medium.com/atheist-there-is-no-trans-089527c7ada9"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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