Posted on 12/13/2018 6:26:32 AM PST by Red Badger
One of America’s leading college faculty unions is decrying attempts to define gender as “binary,” and claims that the Trump administration and the “religious fundamentalists” who support such a definition are moved by ideology, not fact.
The American Association of University Professors, which has 500 chapters and 39 state associations, released a statement last month titled “The Assault on Gender and Gender Studies.”
The statement, which was created by AAUP’s subcommittee of Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and the Committee on Women in the Academic Profession, railed against the Trump administration for considering a plan to define gender as a “biological, immutable condition” defined by a person’s sex at birth.
The plan stoked fears that the word “transgender” could be “defined out of existence.”
The AAUP statement also condemned Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for issuing a decree prohibiting gender studies courses from being taught in universities throughout the country.
The statement also went after administrations in Poland, Brazil and Bulgaria for “attempts to refute the scholarly consensus that gender identity is variable and mutable.”
“Biologists, anthropologists, historians, and psychologists have repeatedly shown that definitions of sex and sexuality have varied over time and across cultures and political regimes,” the AAUP statement reads. “Some of their work suggests that state-enforced preservation of traditional gender roles is associated with authoritarian attempts to control social life and to promise security in troubled times by pledging to protect patriarchal family structures.”
AAUP claims that those “authoritarian efforts” lead to a justification of “racial, class, and sexual policing that disciplines forms of kinship and homemaking.”
“Politicians and religious fundamentalists are neither scientists nor scholars,” the AAUP statement asserts. “Their motives are ideological. It is they who are offering ‘gender ideology’ by attempting to override the insights of serious scholars. By substituting their ideology for years of assiduous research, they impose their will in the name of a ‘science’ that is without factual support. This is a cynical invocation of science for purely political ends.”
The statement also asserts that defining gender as binary and immutable not only hurts transgender individuals and other nonbinary and gender nonconforming individuals but that it will also “disproportionately” impact “poor people and poor people of color.”
“There is also a potential threat to academic freedom: like attacks on climate science, the effort to establish a legal definition of gender as binary could lead to denying research funding to scholars and to impugning the value and validity of their scholarly work,” the statement warns. “Fixing the meaning of gender in this way may undermine the open-ended forms of inquiry that define research and teaching in a democracy.”
Despite accusing politicians and religious fundamentalists of having ideological motives with no “factual support,” AAUP failed in its statement to provide any sort of citation to the “biologists, anthropologists, historians, and psychologists” it relies on to form its own argument.
Although the AAUP statement wants to present politicians and religious fundamentalists as the main purveyor of the argument against beliefs in mutable gender, doctors and academics are also calling on the Trump administration to define gender as a “biological, immutable condition.”
Leaders from the conservative American College of Pediatricians signed onto a petition sent last week to Trump administration officials to praise the administration for its intent to “uphold the scientific definition of sex in federal law and policy.”
“The norm for human design is to be conceived either male or female. Human sexuality is binary by design for the obvious purpose of the reproduction of our species,” the petition reads. “This principle is self-evident. ‘XY’ and ‘XX’ are genetic markers of male and female, respectively, and are found in every cell of the human body including the brain. Sex is established at conception, declares itself in utero, and is acknowledged at birth.”
The petition declares that sex differences are “real and consequential.”
“The Institute of Medicine recognized the singular importance of sex to health and the field of medicine nearly two decades ago,” the petition explains. “Sex chromosomes impart innate differences between men and women in literally every cell of our bodies. There are over 6,500 shared genes that are expressed differently in human males and females. These differences impact our brains, organ systems, propensity for developing certain diseases, differential responses to drugs, toxins and pain, differential cognitive and emotional processes, behavior and more.”
Along with ACP’s Dr. Michelle Cretella and pediatric endocrinologist Quinton Van Meter, the petition was signed by professors and academics from institutions like the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame, the University of San Diego and Johns Hopkins Medical School.
The petition was also signed by social conservative activists such as the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver, and Alliance Defending Freedom’s Michael Farris.
Michael Brown, a conservative radio host and prominent Messianic Jewish author, questioned in an op-ed what the AAUP thinks of the doctors and academics who signed onto the petition.
“They are obviously bigots, and bigots cannot be taken seriously,” Brown sarcastically joked.
“In other words, we know better. We are educated. We are scientists. We are free of bias. We have no agenda, no ideology, no underlying worldview. We only utter the truth.”
Brown said that the AAUP’s argument “breaks down” when you look at some of the initial signatories of the statement, which includes professor J. Michael Bailey of Northwestern University, who is “celebrated in LGBT circles” for his book The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism.
“Of course, this argument breaks down immediately, based on verifiable facts,” Brown wrote.
Evolutionary psychology professor Geoffry Miller at the University of New Mexico also criticized the AAUP statement.
“Disgraceful that the leading union for American faculty, @AAUP, has sided with gender feminism ('serious scholars doing years of assiduous research') over evolutionary science in defining sex & gender,” he wrote in a tweet. “Why take such a blatantly partisan & biased position?”
Gender Neutral Restroom sign is seen placed outside a restroom for the 15th annual Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., June 9, 2016.
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Has anyone seen one of these signs yet? I haven't. I was raised in The South before the Civil Rights era. Everywhere there were THREE RESTROOMS: MEN - WOMEN - COLORED. We are returning to those days..................
Obviously, none of them came near to real STEM course.
Whatever happened to settled science?
Yes, there were so-called med types there, but yup, they shouldn’t go close to a real patient.
“Science isn’t an exact science with these bozos”
Whatever happened to settled science?
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That only applies to global warming.
“Higher Education” has become a racket between the US Government and the Colleges.
It is not about education. It is about indoctrination.
Eliminate the Department of Education and any other departments associated with student loans and grants.
Establish a hard review process for each and every proposed governent grant to any college. If it isn’t hard, scientific research, military-related or the like, denial is automatic. We don’t need to know about shrimp on a treadmill, transgender swine, or other SJW bullshit!
Gender is binary.
Insanity occupies a spectrum.
These fascists live in a fact free fantasy world.
There’s that darn word, “PROFESSOR” again....
I can remember a time when the word, “PROFESSOR”, actually meant something: intelligence, honor, great achievement, etc. etc.
Now, not so much. Like everything the libs touch, it’s been totally destroyed...it means nothing today, just a bunch of useless azzholes and crackpots.
Any young person today would be waaaayyyy better off attending a good trade school and learn a good, viable and useful trade rather than sit under these commie/leftist so-called “professors” only to waste their money and time in learning how to protest for SJW issues that mean nothing to getting a good paycheck.
Climate change is real. Biological genders are fake. Got it.
We truly live in a Goebbelsian world.
If you put poo in an oven that doesn’t make it a biscuit.
Settled science is whatever the Left says it is. Truth is optional.
As far as the eye can see, nothing but idiots.
It would help if all sensible people would use the word SEX instead of the word GENDER, unless the subject is grammar.
Ahhhhh...more professors....
I saw a similar “all inclusive” restroom sign at.... where else? A college campus, Old Dominion University, (ODU), in Norfolk, VA. It was slightly different though. Same message though, Insane Faggot Delusions spoken here.
1963 COMMUNIST GOALS FOR AMERICA
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FL IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Entered into the Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35 ._1. on Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG [said:]_a.. “Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:.
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. [Some of these goals have become policy.]
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. [Surrendering without a fight]
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. [Use our own taxes to achieve these self-destructive goals!]
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the US has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. [ Judges (#16) and elected officials (#15) who destroy the Constitution can be charged with perjury but after that the only charge left is treason.]
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office. [surrender US ingenuity & void all protections.]
‘15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. [ These Congressmen, McCain(R-AR) Feingold(D-WI); Shays(R-CT) Meehan (D-MA), & their advisers via campaign finance reform would cripple the 1st Amendment’s free speech & undermine the US Constitution!] [ 40,000,000 abortions have killed more American children than all wars combined!]
‘16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. [The ‘technical’ civil rights of a student minority of one! see (#28)][Everson has been cited in 6000 cases since 1947!]
-17. Get control of the schools _b.. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. [Dumbing Down = Goals 2000, Common Core.] Get control of teachers’ associations. [PTA] Put the party line in textbooks.
-18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
-19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
-20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy making positions. [textbook press _c.]
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. [The media reeks of these goals and the ‘party lines’.]
‘22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.” [Produce & promote ‘degrading & obscene’ MUSIC, cartoons & movies to harm our children.] [#21 & #23]
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.” [NEA]
‘24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press. [ACLU & ALA in public & school libraries encourage obscenity to harm our children.][Schools should not be free speech zones for evil.]
-25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. [ textbooks][’Break down [family] standards of morality’] [MTV, cable & “R” rated trash.]
‘26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.” [Condom & prostitution based Sex Ed. vs. abstinence which is ALWAYS 100% effective.] [Who needs biological warfare agents when deadly plagues like HIV-AIDs & incurable STD’s are so easy to proliferate, so easy to destroy physically, mentally & spiritually.] [ diversity = perversity.]
‘27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.” [i.e. destroy God’s vision for his children.]
-28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.” [ This was a reality after the Court perjuriously invented the “separation of church and state” in Everson v Bd. Ed 1947. Note: Engel v. Vitale, 82 S. Ct.1261 (1962) & Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963), see (#16)]_c. , _d.
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
-31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. [#29 & #30]
-32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. [ e.g. the unconstitutional Federal Dept. of Education, funding, et. al.]
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. [Make anti-American, white collar terrorism & perjury OK!]
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
-36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. [Most of the NEA & AFT policies are anti child, anti parent & anti family.]
‘37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. [Is it a stretch to think that a $40 Billion company like Disney which owns ABC (#20; #21;#25), promotes “Gay Days”(#26) and Domestic Partner Benefits (#26; #40) would expect families to attend their theme parks and buy their products & stocks?] [Consider: the NFL which funds the United Way which funds homosexuals & pedophiles (#26) which infiltrate schools, businesses & Boy Scouts!][Yahoo.com (#26)] [ Sacrificing our kids for career & money!] [’Infiltrate and gain control of’ associations (#17): AARP, AMA, ABarA, NOW, APA (#39 ; #41),PFAW, etc.]
‘38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand. [HHS - HRS kidnap children from parents without due process.]
‘39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. [Ex-Surgeon General J. Elders wanted to make illegal drugs legal & fry our children’s brains.]
-40. Discredit the family _d. as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. [no fault!] [The divorced child’s sense of security is diminished and harmed for the rest of his life.]
-41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. [Corrupt parental: authority, possession & rights. (#39.)]
-42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.” _e.
We just renewed our passports and were happy to see only two choices for sex which was a mandatory field. Think how triggering that would be for these clowns.
The FACT is that you’re either born with one set of genitals or the other.
The ability of Leftists to delude themselves is nearly endless.
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