How Richard Dawkins Beat the Gender Delusion

And how anyone can

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A big misconception of our time is that people who leave religion behind—and perhaps who go as far as to critique it—are more reasonable. Standing in stark contrast to that idea is the fact that the New Atheist movement has wholeheartedly embraced gender ideology.

But, credit where it’s due, there is one prominent New Atheist figure who has bucked the trend and come out strongly against the insanity: evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. And it’s a topic he’s been visiting a lot lately.

Just at the end of last month, Dawkins discussed “preferred pronouns” and the claims that misgendering is violence on his podcast, The Poetry of Reality, closing out the show with some poignant observations:

Shouldn't we just indulge the harmless whims of an oppressed minority? Maybe—were it not for a strain of aggressive bossiness which insists not so very harmlessly and not sounding very oppressed that the rest of us must humor those whims and join in. This compulsion even ha…