The gender issues narrative is getting to the point where it’s actually pushing society backwards.

A Nobel-winning scientist has left his post after public outcry over supposedly sexist comments he made at a conference.

Sir Tim Hunt won the prize for the physiology and medicine category in 2001 for his work on cellular division.

The 72-year-old attended a conference in South Korea last week and said “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them they cry.”

This is not exactly a politician speaking on international televisions. This is a scientist making, as he explained it later to the BBC, a “light-hearted, ironic comment” to a group of academics. Halfway around the world.

Yet the perpetually outraged know no borders nor do they have a sense of proportion. So social media lit up in anger.

According to the mob, his comments are akin to suggesting women shouldn’t be allowed in the workplace - that they should be banished from the halls of science. That their voices don’t matter.

As a result of this ridiculous response, Hunt resigned from his post as an honorary professor at the University College London faculty of life sciences.

This is the response issued by the school: “UCL was the first university in England to admit women students on equal terms to men, and the university believes that this outcome is compatible with our commitment to gender equality."

Total nonsense. Hunt’s departure is the opposite of being compatible with gender equality. To go along with a response like this means you think women are so fragile that they can’t handle themselves in regular society where people occasionally make light-hearted remarks.

But this isn’t the main problem with this whole fiasco. No, the problem is that this takes the gender games shakedown to a whole new level. It’s now got to the point where it’s harming the advancement of human civilization.

I’m aware that sounds over the top, but Hunt and his wife are celebrated researchers. They and their colleagues are doing really important work that can actually improve the lives of the human race.

Yet because of the childish behaviour on the part of identity politics activists, Hunt is backing away from his work.

Granted, he’s at the end of his career. But it still sends a message to others in similar fields that maybe it’s not worth it these days.

You spent decades slaving away in the lab, doing slow and arduous work to advance your field and the most talked about moment in your career is this?! Why even bother if society is going to be so ungrateful?

The gender issues mob is just out of control. They’re ruining institutions with their thought-police antics that have more to do with their own neuroses than reality.

The only good news is that they’re so batty they’re also tearing themselves apart.

If you’re a sucker for punishment and have a bit of time on your hands, google the term “TERF.”

It means “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.” There’s a fight in that subculture over whether true feminism should include transgendered women. The things that keep some people up at night…

Hopefully the gender identity movement will implode because of schisms like this.

Then everyone, male and female, can get back to things like scientific achievement that actually makes the world better.