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...”
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This is childish, the college needs to grow up. https://www.foxnews.com/video/6330313672112
I thought we were supposed to follow and trust the science?
When I was in college I had at east one teacher who recorded his lectures and made a show of turning on the machine (A reel to reel TEAC) at the start of each class.
The college needs its face sued off, followed by the elimination of the Officers of Woke. I said elimination, because they’re full of ****.
Just think of what all the non-fired biology instructors are teaching their students.
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