Dawkins has commented that chromosomal gender remains fixed, which is true, and is the cherry-picked part that conservatives latch onto in their opposition to “trannys” (as described earlier in this thread), but those people tend to ignore that Dawkins also said he would still refer to a person as their preferred gender ‘identity’ out of courtesy, which many of the right-wingers would refuse to do on ‘principle’. Very few of the people who express strong opinions about transsexuals are actually affected by them in any way, and as is usually the case, the positions of the ultra left and ultra right groups on the whole issue are emotive, noisy, and a bit dim.
Evans briefly alluded to Dawkins’ comments to address the fact that it would be erroneous to dismiss Dawkins as an evolutionary biologists on the basis that he said something on Twitter that was poorly received.
It’s really strange that people who already don’t like Evans are ‘shocked’ when Evans says something they disagree with, and stranger still that they’re still listening to him.