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Latest implosion in the Skeptic world.
Jerry Coyne resigned from the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
He wrote a rebuttal "Biology is not Bigotry" to a TRA's piece on why men can totally be women. Of course, TRAs flooded the site because of the hurty words & FRFF decided to censor his opinions. Coyne tried to get the article reinstated but it was refused.
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/12/29/i-resign-from-the-freedom-from-religion-foundation/
In a agreement with Coyne, Steve Pinker just resigned from the board "But I think it’s important to distinguish two things:
1. The right to bodily autonomy, an ethical issue.
2. The nature of sex in the living world, a scientific issue.
Some trans activists believe that the only way to ensure the first is to rewrite the second, imposing what we regard as fallacious and tendentious claims in defiance of our best scientific understanding. This is unfortunate for two reasons: it’s a conceptual error, confusing the moral and the empirical, and it’s counterproductive to force people to choose between trans rights and scientific reality.
Now Richard Dawkins has given them the boot too
It is with real sadness, because of my personal regard for you both, that I feel obliged to resign from the Advisory Board of FFRF. Publishing the silly and unscientific “What is a Woman” article by Kat Grant was a minor error of judgment, redeemed by the decision to publish a rebuttal by a distinguished scientist from the relevant field of Biology, Jerry Coyne. But alas, the sequel was an act of unseemly panic when you caved in to hysterical squeals from predictable quarters and retrospectively censored that excellent rebuttal. Moreover, to summarily take it down without even informing the author of your intention was an act of lamentable discourtesy to a member of your own Advisory Board. A Board which I now leave with regret.
FFRF supporters are not happy https://freethoughtnow.org/freedom-from-religion-foundation-supports-lgbtqia-plus-rights/