A Catholic writer pushes back against accusations of being “anti-science” while pointing to historical Catholic contributions to science and criticizing the Left’s aggressive enforcement of transgender ideology. The piece traces names like Mendel, Lemaître, Copernicus, and Nicolas Steno as proof that faith and inquiry have long worked together. It argues that demanding a rewrite of basic biology to fit ideology is dangerous for society.
I’m often told I’m “anti-science” simply because I hold religious beliefs and ask inconvenient questions. That accusation is ironic when you look at the record: Gregor Mendel, Georges Lemaître, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Nicolas Steno were all clerics or tied to the Church and made huge contributions to genetics, cosmology, heliocentrism, anatomy, and geology. Those facts show faith and scientific discovery are not mutually exclusive.
When critics call people like me names—transphobic, Islamophobic, racist—they usually mean we won’t bow to their political demands. I refused to give my boys—the rest of their shots up to date—the COVID jab, and that was enough for some to label me “anti-science.” Asking questions about policy, medicine, and social experiments is not hatred; it’s skepticism, and skepticism is how progress is supposed to work.
The most fervently anti-science crowd I’ve run into is the Left, especially the trans activist wing that demands we discard basic biology to suit ideology. They’ll tell you the gender binary is a social construct while expecting everyone to adopt their language and alter institutions to conform. That contradiction is central to the conflict: insist reality be rewritten, and then call those who resist bigots.
“You know, the natural world and what we’ve learned in biology class in terms of it seemingly being this cis hetero patriarchal, you know, system … is I feel used against queer and trans people in terms of us being made to seem maladaptive, there’s something wrong with us, we’re not real … or we’re some modern thing which is, of course, we know not true,” Page said.
Call it bluntness, but yes: people who are born female and then decide they were “born in the wrong body” and pursue removing healthy parts or taking cross-sex hormones are making choices that have serious, often harmful consequences. Medicine and science should be careful, measured, and based on long-term outcomes, not social fashion or slogans. To insist otherwise is to gamble with real human bodies and futures.
At our core, except for rare genetic exceptions, humans are born male or female and biological reality isn’t prejudiced. Claiming biology is bigoted is a rhetorical move, not a scientific one, and it undermines honest discussion about sex-based differences. If we erase basic categories for ideological reasons, we lose the ability to make clear policy on things like sports, privacy, medicine, and safety.
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Reality will always, eventually, reassert itself, and that frightens those invested in reshaping language and institutions to match their ideology. The Left wants to restructure everything to affirm a small, vocal constituency, even when that restructuring clashes with biology and common sense. In one example, a governor tried to change official terminology to remove “women” and call us “inseminated persons,” a move that highlights how far some will go to avoid facing basic facts.
Asking for common-sense limits on social experiments is not cruelty; it’s caution. You cannot have a functioning civilization if a segment of the population insists the rest surrender objective reality because that reality makes them uncomfortable. Those who lecture others about being “anti-science” while advocating for ideological rewrites of biology have it backwards.
So spare me the moralizing. I do not reject science—I defend it from politicization that demands we ignore evidence and long-term consequences. And I never want to hear a leftist lecture me about being “anti-science” when they spout garbage like this.
