Posted on 10/07/2022 7:28:33 PM PDT by algore
A group of students at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine are calling for their professor to be fired after she said in class only two sexes exist.
Christy Hammer, a professor of education, allegedly made the statement during a heated debate about gender identity in her 'Creating a Positive Learning Environment' class, causing an uproar among the graduate students.
Only one student agreed with the educator.
The rest maintained both biological sexes and social genders are on a spectrum
The point was first made during class on September 7, but was repeated a week later after student Elizabeth Leibiger, who is non-binary and was absent the previous week, brought up the topic again.
She then said she felt 'under personal attack' after the professor again said only two sexes exist.
'I asked [Hammer] how many sexes there were,' Leibiger said. 'She said, 'Two.' I felt under personal attack.'
Biologically, there are only two sexes. Men have XY chromosomes, while women have XX chromosomes. Progressives say gender can have a broader spectrum than sex.
But anti-woke campaigners warning that the fixation on denying the biological reality that only two sexes exist is absurd, and potentially puts people's health at risk.
Almost the entire class of 22 students walked out, all except one demanding a meeting to be held with the university's School of Education and Human Development
Two dozen graduate students in the class continued to demand that the university replace Hammer, believing her to be transphobic.
Students are now refusing to return to the classroom in which she teaches and will only attend class if a new educator be appointed.
The class is a requirement to complete the graduate-level Extended Teacher Education Program and become a certified teacher in Maine
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This is what happens when people don’t have to work to keep from starving.
Shut
That
Uni
Down.
It’s of no “furthur” use.
Chesterton wrote: “Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.”
Over 95% of students should not be in college. Actually maybe nobody should be in college when you learn what they are being subjected to there.
As yes future teachers in America!
In the 70s there were lots of Sci-Fi books that postulated about gender changes being normal and fun in whatever future the authors had imagined.
Never thought it would ever be anything besides fiction
So who is teaching whom? These idiot “students” are there to learn or be woke indoctrinated? Let the school fire her. She has a ready made suit.
And this is college/uni level!
Do they actually teach Biology in schools anymore? Seriously?!
Brett Weinstein, who produces the excellent Darkhorse Podcast, has said we are in a new Dark Age. This sort of ridiculous anti- science along with the rigid orthodoxy that destroys anyone who attempts to fight it, is exactly what he’s referring to.
She should sue that university and make them prove in court that she’s wrong.
it still is fiction. we are dealing with Mentel illness and a society that allows those with mental problem to tell us what to do.
Most of the animal kingdom has two sexes. Humans are a part of the animal kingdom. Students need to study biology.
“A group of students at the University of Southern Maine in Portland”
They say only one student was willing to publicly agree with the professor. They never say how many were demanding the firing. It’s probably just under half. After all, it is in the Education department.
How can “two dozen” in a class of 22 be a thing?
And the Left calls us science deniers!
Everything else is a preference
Good for Mrs Hammer. Throw the idiot students out. Guess I’ll be making a call in the morning.
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