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Atheism Should Leave Its Transphobia Behind in the New Year (www.youtube.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org

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Not that there's anything good about this, but hearing that both Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins "resigned" from whatever honorary positions they had with the FFRF rather made my heart sink.

I was a linguistics student for a time, and Pinker's books always had a sociolinguistic aspect to them, but I never saw transphobia. It was admittedly a while back, so it really wasn't yet settling into the national consciousness.

I also admired Dawkins' writing style; again, I saw nothing transphobic.

So for both of these guys to be like "nope, you should have totally kept a piece up that says transwomen should have fewer rights and options" is, maybe, the final insult of 2024.

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[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago

Given religion is often used as an excuse for misogyny and how much that crowd of atheists emphasis how backwards theists often are, it's easy to see how people would have expected better from at least that sect of atheists. But then they turn out to be racist and misogynists just like the theists they criticize.

Of course it has nothing to do with atheism itself just like religion doesn't really have much to do with why people who use it as an excuse are actually misogynist.