Bagster
Posted on 07/16/2018 12:32:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The University of Minnesota is considering a policy to discipline students or professors who refuse to call someone by their preferred gender pronoun, with penalties that could include being fired or expelled.
The draft policy under review may change, but as of now it states that “university members and units are expected to use the names, gender identities and pronouns specified to them by university members, except as legally required.”
When someone does not go along with a person whose biological sex does not match their preferred gender — such as refusing to call a biological man a woman — it is called “misgendering” and is considered harassment by secular progressives. Indeed, some have even suggested refusing to recognize someone’s preferred gender amounts to “violence.”
“I’ve come to understand after all these years of experience that calling a transgender woman a man is an act of violence,” transgender actress Laverne Cox once told an audience of college students, prompting them to applause wildly.
The proposed policy at the University of Minnesota states that misgendering someone may result in “disciplinary action up to and including termination from employment and academic sanctions up to and including academic expulsion.”
Gabrielle Mead, assistant director of the public university’s Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action office, which would oversee the new policy, told the Star-Tribune that its “intent is to be able to create more access and an inclusive environment for all of our community members regardless of their gender identity.”
The newspaper reports the proposed policy is “one of the most ambitious of its kind in the country,” but it will likely undergo revisions before it’s approved.
Several campus organizations collaborated to write the policy, including the Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life and the Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action office, reports the Minnesota Daily campus newspaper.
“The draft was written to address faculty concerns and improve the campus environment for gender nonconforming students. The administrative policy is currently receiving feedback from student groups and University governments – and hopes to present it to the University Senate next fall,” the Daily reports.
Meanwhile, alarm bells sound.
Joseph Konstan, a computer science professor and chair of the Faculty Consultative Committee, told the Star-Tribune the proposed policy “set off the free speech alarms immediately.”
“I don’t think it’s a controversial idea that people should be addressed as they prefer to be addressed,” Konstan said. “Where it becomes controversial is where you move from being about good behavior … into a disciplinary matter.”
The proposed policy rings similar to the controversy brewing in Canada, which added gender identity and gender expression to its discrimination laws. Some have argued that will lead to people being thrown in jail for misgendering, or at the very least it’s the start of a slippery slope and an affront to free speech rights, among other concerns.
Objections over the Canadian policy were brought to light by the University of Toronto’s Jordan Peterson, who shot to fame for his refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns.
More recently, Wilfrid Laurier University graduate student Lindsay Shepherd was investigated for overseeing a gender-neutral pronoun debate in class. She has since sued the Canadian school over the probe.
As for the University of Minnesota proposal, it is another politically correct encroachment on higher education, some argue.
“Gender nazis love to get people fired,” notes John Hinderaker of Powerlineblog. “[I]t typifies the craziness that is going on at academic institutions these days. This is one of several reasons why higher education has fallen into disrepute.”
....it’s way past time these colleges get sued every week ...put an end to this *hit..
Attacking dems and their associations “(like colleges and msm, etc) has NEVER been so easy.
How an R can lose in any election besides a blanket minority district or a large white a@@hole district, is beyond me.
The majority of the people (maybe not under 30) still think this is absurd garbage.
Rs should have enough ammunition to claim MORE seats in house, not lose a few.
University of Don’t Gorram Matter said what?
Missed it.
So all white males need to use the pronoun “Master” in front of their name. Let’s see how the University deals with that.
So not only will the “trans” folks be allowed to insist on their right to practice their delusion, but if some other student or professor doesn’t go along with it, they could be fired or expelled?
Insanity!
Hey, UofMinn: XX = a girl; XY = a guy. Period.
Walk away!
Better yet RUN from these asylums.
Im happy my children fought this crap in college and it didnt exist when i went life is so much easier knowing what bathroom to use and how to dress appropriately
As a former college professor, how the heck would you know which of the 47 genders in vogue this week would be the correct form to address a student? As gender is now considered whatever the person decides they will be, a student known as gender #27 this week could regard themselves as gender #6 the next or a whole new gender that just got invented on Tuesday and wasn’t in the memo sent to faculty on Monday. This is total insanity
Chromosome 23, it’s the law for you and me.
Dna don’t lie.
Indeed, we have to come up with the appropriate response to this inanity/insanity. I don't care for your suggestion because too many of the libtards are immune to sarcasm: They just fail to notice it. I think refusing to use pronouns at all is a good option. Just refer to each person by his/her/whatevers given name and don't use any pronouns ever. This would get really funny, really fast.
Considering that the Brits put Tommy Robinson in prison for telling the truth, the liberals end game is exactly that. They are not quite that far yet, but they are trying, little by little, to accomplish it.
I think the reason they move slow, is to avoid setting off armed struggle. I think it will ignite, sooner or later, anyway. 👎
This does not surprise me at all. Minnesota is a bat-shit crazy state. Just look who it has sent to the US Senate: Al Franken; Paul Wellstone; Amy Klobuchar; just to name a few.
Own the media and the media will announce our hearts desire. Even if it’s not the truth
The state just needs to shut the university down for a “year of sanity”, fire all the staff, and start again....
Rinse and repeat until the last vestiges of leftist bilge are drained from the northern swamp.
The fool has said in his heart ‘there is no God.’ America and Americans need to honor God more than the rights of rebels. Letting arsonists have freedom with gas and matches in public because it’s Their nature’ is Ph.D reasoning?
Bagster
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