UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR GROUP PROTESTS
GENDER SANITY
BY GINA MILLER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Last month, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a labor union and foundation group out of Washington, D.C., that purports, in part, to support academic freedom, released a statement titled "The Assault on Gender and Gender Studies." It should send chills down the spines
of any parents who have sent, or are considering sending, their kids to college today.
What "assault" on gender? It's not the one you might think, the one by
militant homofascists and "transgender" activists. Instead, the AAUP's
idea of an assault on gender is from those who seek a return to sanity
by codifying in law the correct definition of the sexes as biological
male and female (as if that should ever need defining). The
statement's writers complain about Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor
Orbán's decree that no "gender studies" courses can be taught in
universities, and they also whine about the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services' plan to correctly define sex for Title IX purposes.
Here's a stunner from the first paragraph of the statement:
- Both the Trump and the Orbán administrations insist upon a biological
basis for gender that has been thoroughly discredited by over fifty
years of feminist, trans, queer, and critical race research and by lived
experience. These two administrations are not the only ones attacking
so-called gender ideology. In Poland, Brazil, and Bulgaria, there have
also been attempts to refute the scholarly consensus that gender
identity is variable and mutable.
- The [AAUP]...strongly [condemns] these efforts to restrict the legal
meaning of gender to what are said to be its natural, immutable
forms.... Biologists, anthropologists, historians, and psychologists
have repeatedly shown that definitions of sex and sexuality have varied
over time.... Politicians and religious fundamentalists are neither
scientists nor scholars. 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. [Emphasis mine]
By saying, "Politicians and religious fundamentalists are neither scientists nor scholars," they're attempting to stifle debate against their assertions. Putting aside that such a statement is silly, since they have no informed way of making that broad claim, it remains that no one needs to be an "official" scholar or scientist to know and speak the truth. This is a common rhetorical tactic of the scientifically-challenged left to silence their critics, to claim that we're not "qualified" to speak against their contentions. Whether it's "global warming," now "climate change," or the homofascist movement, real, honest science is not its foundation. It's an inconvenience they discard (and replace with pseudo-science) when it contradicts their political agenda.
Regardless, this is what we're facing in our nation today. Other countries, including Canada and those in Europe, are farther down the road to homofascist despotism, and unless we somehow stop the madness, we will be there, too. "Hate speech" crimes will be a punitive, everyday reality, much more so than they already are. Christians are already losing their jobs here in the United States for refusing to play along with the "transgender" charade. Christian business owners are being targeted and sued by homosexual activists for not lending their work and support to same-sex "marriage."
This only gets worse and worse if we don't stand firmly against it, and that's a mighty tall order when our nation's kids are being indoctrinated in the public schools and universities with pro-homosexual, pro-"transgender" propaganda. If the communists running our schools continue to own the minds of the younger generations, then we will eventually go the way of Canada and Europe to an ever-darker, despotic place where freedom of speech and conscience are just distant memories.