Yesterday Professor Richard Dawkins penned a comment piece for the Standard. Titled “How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?”, the piece argued that one of the key difficulties at the heart of the trans debate is a lack of coherent agreement about the meaning of certain words, such as violence.
The article, predictably, drew support and criticism from every quarter. But it was by no means Dawkins’ first foray into the trans debate, nor into contentious topics.
