{"id":1902768,"date":"2023-03-22T10:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-sexes-and-thats-all-there-is-to-it-biologist-defends-jk-rowlings-comments\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T10:31:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:31:55","slug":"two-sexes-and-thats-all-there-is-to-it-biologist-defends-jk-rowlings-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-sexes-and-thats-all-there-is-to-it-biologist-defends-jk-rowlings-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Two sexes, and that\u2019s all there is to it&#8217;: Biologist defends JK Rowling\u2019s comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-sexes-and-thats-all-there-is-to-it-biologist-defends-jk-rowlings-comments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1902768&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_79409428\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Cuban baseball player abandons team, becomes first to defect during World Baseball Classic\"><br \/>\n                <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Team Cuba catcher Ivan Prieto defected to the United States during the World Baseball Classic. 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Rowling<\/a> on comments referencing biological sex as the standard for defining a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/men\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">man<\/a> or <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">woman<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Atheist and biologist <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/restoring-america\/community-family\/atheist-richard-dawkins-signs-controversial-declaration-opposing-gender-reassignment-surgeries-and-puberty-blockers-for-children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Dawkins<\/a> said there are only two biological sexes based on his research.\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"TweetEmbed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Richard Dawkins says JK Rowling and Kathleen Stock have been &#8220;bullied&#8221; while standing up for themselves over trans issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a biologist, there are two sexes and that&#8217;s all there is to it.&#8221;@RichardDawkins | @piersmorgan | @jk_rowling | @Docstockk<br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jAV1WoGoPj\">pic.twitter.com\/jAV1WoGoPj<\/a>\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiersUncensored\/status\/1637914407106650115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2023<\/a>\n                <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n        <br \/><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/jk-rowling-anti-transgender-comments-cancel-culture-dictator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JK ROWLING: CANCEL CULTURE IS \u2018THE LANGUAGE OF A DICTATOR\u2019<\/a><\/b>\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        \u201cThere are two sexes. You can talk about gender if you wish,\u201d Dawkins told <i>Piers Morgan<\/i> <i>Uncensored.<\/i> \u201cAs a biologist, there are two sexes, and that\u2019s all there is to it.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Rowling received criticism for her tweets regarding the gender-inclusive language of \u201cpeople who menstruate.\u201d In January, she also garnered backlash by stating that &#8220;real misogyny&#8221; is found in men telling women how to behave, think, or feel.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Dawkins called those who threatened to cancel Rowling over her comments &#8220;bullies.&#8221;\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        \u201cWe\u2019ve seen the way J.K. Rowling has been bullied, the way Kathleen Stock has been bullied,\u201d Dawkins said, referring to a British professor who questioned the authenticity of transgender women claiming to be women. \u201cThey\u2019ve stood up to it, but it\u2019s very upsetting, the way this tiny minority of people has managed to capture the discourse and to really talk errant nonsense.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        Dawkins was stripped of a humanist award in 2021 due to a tweet supporting the discussion of the legitimacy of activists\u2019 demands to change language and biological definitions.\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"TweetEmbed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In 2015, Rachel Dolezal, a white chapter president of NAACP, was vilified for identifying as Black. Some men choose to identify as women, and some women choose to identify as men. You will be vilified if you deny that they literally are what they identify as.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardDawkins\/status\/1380812852055973888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2021<\/a>\n                <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n        <br \/>\u201cSex really is binary, and therefore, it\u2019s certainly worth discussing that odd anomaly, which I pointed out in that tweet,\u201d Dawkins said in defense of his comments.\n    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8216;Read More From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/two-sexes-biologist-jk-rowling-comments\">&#8220;&#8216;Two sexes, and that\u2019s all there is to it&#8217;: Biologist defends JK Rowling\u2019s comments&#8221;<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A biologist has come to the defense of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling after she made comments referencing biological sex as the standard for how a man or woman is defined. Atheist and biologist Richard Dawkins drew upon his years of research and said that there are only two biological sexes. 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