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Biology professor fired after telling students sex is based on chromosomes
Life Site News ^ | 06/29/2023 | Clare Marie Merkowsky

Posted on 06/30/2023 8:54:52 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

A Texas biology professor is appealing to be reinstated after being fired following telling students that sex is based on chromosomes.

According to a letter from First Liberty Legal Group, released June 20, biology professor Johnson Varkey was fired from St. Philip’s College in San Antonio after four students walked out of his class when Varkey said that sex is determined by chromosomes in November 2023.

A January 10 email from Randall Dawson, the Vice President for Academic Success at St. Philip read, “I am sending you notification that Alamo Colleges District Human Resources department is in receipt of an ethics violation complaint from JBSA-Lackland, related to your facilitation of the BIOL 2402 class, during the Flex II Fall 2022 term.”

Varkey, who had taught at the college for 20 years, responded by asking exactly what the violation was, but Dawson didn’t respond. Later, on January 27, Varkey received a notice informing him of his termination of employment.

According to the notice of termination, several complaints were made about his alleged “religious preaching, discriminatory comments about homosexuals and transgender individuals, anti-abortion rhetoric, and misogynistic banter...”

(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: 1984; biology; chromosomes; education; genealogy; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; innovember2023; randalldawson; sanantonio; science; sex; stphilipscollege; texas; xyxx
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1 posted on 06/30/2023 8:54:52 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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Sue the heck out of them!

Then protest outside their homes.


2 posted on 06/30/2023 8:56:48 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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[[complaints were made about his alleged “religious preaching, discriminatory comments about homosexuals and transgender individuals, anti-abortion rhetoric, and misogynistic banter...”]]

likely bullcrap- they can’t prove any of it, and he can’t prove he didn’
t- but they have all the power- so he gets the shaft


3 posted on 06/30/2023 8:57:58 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: ConservativeMind

exactly- especially if he said SEX is determined by chromosomes- it is- gender however has been bastardized over the years to mean ‘how one feels about themselves’, but SEX is still determined by chromosomes no matter how whacked out a person feels concerning their proclaimed alleged gender-


4 posted on 06/30/2023 8:59:47 PM PDT by Bob434
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I’ve never heard of St. Philips College. Must be for faygs.


5 posted on 06/30/2023 9:01:43 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Bob434

This is why every lecture should be recorded.


6 posted on 06/30/2023 9:03:14 PM PDT by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Aren’t these so-called “colleges” supposed to be certified to be able to charge students big bucks for a so-called diploma?


7 posted on 06/30/2023 9:04:17 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (A man in NM is killed over a movie theater seat. The azhos in The Swamp think guns are the problem. )
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“... November 2023 ...”

Um.


8 posted on 06/30/2023 9:05:28 PM PDT by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: coydog

its sad that that is what it is coming to- just to defend ourselves from the lies of the left-


9 posted on 06/30/2023 9:07:03 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I hope this case finds its way to the Supreme Court.

KBJ has already said she would defer to a biologist to define what a woman is.

Well... this guy’s a biologist.


10 posted on 06/30/2023 9:08:52 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo (“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”  - Huey Long)
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Science deniers.


11 posted on 06/30/2023 9:17:21 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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Nobody else caught the fact that this complaint originated from the school's branch at Lackland AFB?

ethics violation complaint from JBSA-Lackland

12 posted on 06/30/2023 9:17:44 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Guns don't kill people, Democrats do. )
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Everything is tolerated except the truth.


13 posted on 06/30/2023 9:21:17 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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Victims don’t nee this so-called “proof”.


14 posted on 06/30/2023 9:22:41 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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Wait ...

Ketanji Brown Jackson swore under oath that she can’t determine exactly what a woman is, because she’s not a biologist.

This dude actually IS a biologist ... According to no less than a Supreme Court Justice, he is an EXPERT on the topic. None dare contradict him!


15 posted on 06/30/2023 9:24:58 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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when Varkey said that sex is determined by chromosomes in November 2023.

Damn! They're canceling him, and he hasn't said it yet ...

16 posted on 06/30/2023 9:25:43 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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I was a pharmacist now thankfully retired. In pharmacy school they taught us how different drugs affected males and females differently. It was just plain science. As such we needed to treat each patient differently dependent on sex and race. That is just reality.

An individual is either xx or xy. It is that simple. When an xy has an abortion due to natural sex I will reconsider my stance.


17 posted on 06/30/2023 9:49:38 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, consultant, pilot, almost chemist, pharmacist)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

We have become utterly certifiable!


18 posted on 06/30/2023 10:26:46 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: ConservativeMind

We need to start suing those complainingnot just the schools...I am betting that those who complained have done it to others...we need to make the woke left scared they will lose everything if they make a slanderous complaint or one that is just frivolous


19 posted on 06/30/2023 10:36:57 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Chromosome 23, it’s the natural law for you and me.


20 posted on 06/30/2023 11:39:24 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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