Posted on 12/13/2018 6:26:32 AM PST by Red Badger
One of America’s leading college faculty unions is decrying attempts to define gender as “binary,” and claims that the Trump administration and the “religious fundamentalists” who support such a definition are moved by ideology, not fact.
The American Association of University Professors, which has 500 chapters and 39 state associations, released a statement last month titled “The Assault on Gender and Gender Studies.”
The statement, which was created by AAUP’s subcommittee of Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and the Committee on Women in the Academic Profession, railed against the Trump administration for considering a plan to define gender as a “biological, immutable condition” defined by a person’s sex at birth.
The plan stoked fears that the word “transgender” could be “defined out of existence.”
The AAUP statement also condemned Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for issuing a decree prohibiting gender studies courses from being taught in universities throughout the country.
The statement also went after administrations in Poland, Brazil and Bulgaria for “attempts to refute the scholarly consensus that gender identity is variable and mutable.”
“Biologists, anthropologists, historians, and psychologists have repeatedly shown that definitions of sex and sexuality have varied over time and across cultures and political regimes,” the AAUP statement reads. “Some of their work suggests that state-enforced preservation of traditional gender roles is associated with authoritarian attempts to control social life and to promise security in troubled times by pledging to protect patriarchal family structures.”
AAUP claims that those “authoritarian efforts” lead to a justification of “racial, class, and sexual policing that disciplines forms of kinship and homemaking.”
“Politicians and religious fundamentalists are neither scientists nor scholars,” the AAUP statement asserts. “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.”
The statement also asserts that defining gender as binary and immutable not only hurts transgender individuals and other nonbinary and gender nonconforming individuals but that it will also “disproportionately” impact “poor people and poor people of color.”
“There is also a potential threat to academic freedom: like attacks on climate science, the effort to establish a legal definition of gender as binary could lead to denying research funding to scholars and to impugning the value and validity of their scholarly work,” the statement warns. “Fixing the meaning of gender in this way may undermine the open-ended forms of inquiry that define research and teaching in a democracy.”
Despite accusing politicians and religious fundamentalists of having ideological motives with no “factual support,” AAUP failed in its statement to provide any sort of citation to the “biologists, anthropologists, historians, and psychologists” it relies on to form its own argument.
Although the AAUP statement wants to present politicians and religious fundamentalists as the main purveyor of the argument against beliefs in mutable gender, doctors and academics are also calling on the Trump administration to define gender as a “biological, immutable condition.”
Leaders from the conservative American College of Pediatricians signed onto a petition sent last week to Trump administration officials to praise the administration for its intent to “uphold the scientific definition of sex in federal law and policy.”
“The norm for human design is to be conceived either male or female. Human sexuality is binary by design for the obvious purpose of the reproduction of our species,” the petition reads. “This principle is self-evident. ‘XY’ and ‘XX’ are genetic markers of male and female, respectively, and are found in every cell of the human body including the brain. Sex is established at conception, declares itself in utero, and is acknowledged at birth.”
The petition declares that sex differences are “real and consequential.”
“The Institute of Medicine recognized the singular importance of sex to health and the field of medicine nearly two decades ago,” the petition explains. “Sex chromosomes impart innate differences between men and women in literally every cell of our bodies. There are over 6,500 shared genes that are expressed differently in human males and females. These differences impact our brains, organ systems, propensity for developing certain diseases, differential responses to drugs, toxins and pain, differential cognitive and emotional processes, behavior and more.”
Along with ACP’s Dr. Michelle Cretella and pediatric endocrinologist Quinton Van Meter, the petition was signed by professors and academics from institutions like the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame, the University of San Diego and Johns Hopkins Medical School.
The petition was also signed by social conservative activists such as the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver, and Alliance Defending Freedom’s Michael Farris.
Michael Brown, a conservative radio host and prominent Messianic Jewish author, questioned in an op-ed what the AAUP thinks of the doctors and academics who signed onto the petition.
“They are obviously bigots, and bigots cannot be taken seriously,” Brown sarcastically joked.
“In other words, we know better. We are educated. We are scientists. We are free of bias. We have no agenda, no ideology, no underlying worldview. We only utter the truth.”
Brown said that the AAUP’s argument “breaks down” when you look at some of the initial signatories of the statement, which includes professor J. Michael Bailey of Northwestern University, who is “celebrated in LGBT circles” for his book The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism.
“Of course, this argument breaks down immediately, based on verifiable facts,” Brown wrote.
Evolutionary psychology professor Geoffry Miller at the University of New Mexico also criticized the AAUP statement.
“Disgraceful that the leading union for American faculty, @AAUP, has sided with gender feminism ('serious scholars doing years of assiduous research') over evolutionary science in defining sex & gender,” he wrote in a tweet. “Why take such a blatantly partisan & biased position?”
Whatever happened to settled science?
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“Settled science” is pseudoscience. Psychology, sociology and anthropology are the devil’s triangle of scientific deception. Notice they use the word gender, not sexuality. Gender is used by the pseudoscientist devil worshippers to delineate perceived sexual “roles” not scientifically determined sexuality. Sexuality is immutable at birth and is objectively anatomical, biological, and genetic. Gender has nothing to do with sexuality and everything to do with “self perception “( read that self deception).
You can’t argue with them on this position because self perception is exactly that.Hence, Gender has no immutable objective criteria and is “fluid”. The achilies heal of the argument for our purposes rests in “feminism”. Women are identified by their sexual characteristics not their gender perceptions. Title IX, the federal law for women’s treatment from cradle to grave in all governmental educational institutions, defines women according to their sexuality not gender. Trump administration under Betsy De Voss is working on a bill to define men and women by their immutable sexual characteristics at birth, not gender perceptions.This seems obvious to normals but to LBGTQ forces this is the hill they must be willing to die on. Everything about the “gay agenda” rests on gender and the rejection of sexuality. They call it blurred lines.
I mention Title IX because most feminists believe they are women as defined by objective sexual characteristics. They do not want to compete against “transgenderizing” sexual males who can never be actually female. Feminists, many of whom hate males, do not want their sons or daughters to be showering in locker rooms with trans females many of whom still have their male anatomical parts and will always have their genetic XY chromosomes. They don’t want males in their bathrooms and they don’t want special pronouns to destroy our true identities in favor of insanity.
We must take our language back. We should refer back to the King James version of the Bible to formulate our arguments and stop accepting the satanic premises of the pseudosciences i.e. their is no “third sexual modality called “homosexual”. The biblical position, the revealed truth of God tells us, man should not be with man, and woman should not be with woman. The Lord does not recognize “homosexuality” . God knows that two men seeking pleasure in laying with one another is not sexual behavior but perverted pleasure seeking and an abomination to human sexuality.
Facts can be annoying but they are still facts.
Ideology may create many gender delusions but human sex is limited to two, male and female. There is no ideology, past, present, or future, that can alter that fact.
The notion that some chose to accept another person’s delusion and even the government insist that the delusion be acknowledged and even endorsed does not in any way alter the fact that there are only two human sexes, Male and Female.
“Settled science is whatever the Left says it is.”
Agreed.
They are so full of themselves and their own self righteousness that whatever they group think has to be indisputable fact. They can create studies to prove that whatever they think is fact, and use such studies as evidence. With their academic high ground, they have been very successful in indoctrinating just about any willing student into their belief system. Those more open minded are simply brow beaten into conformance.
I was thinking the same thing. Sex is biological and binomial: male/female. Gender deals with issues of grammar and starts with three genders: male/female/neither (he/she/it). Because grammar is an invented convention, I suppose it could expand to include other possibilities but any attempt I have seen to do so just involves confused thinking.
There are only two genders:
Gozinta and Gozouta.................
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.....................
Gender is often taken to include features other than masculine/feminine/neuter, such as the shape, movement, or origin of objects. In this way, a language could have more than three genders.
That said, once a person says “biological gender,” when the word for our embodiment as either male or female is “sex,” he has already muddied the terms of debate and is likely to end up in an unpersuasive scarmable.
Logic and reason are their two most feared weapons.................
In this new world, science is whatever one feels at the moment.
Let us hope they don’t engineer bridges according to their feelings.
Exactly. The attack on the term ‘gender’ is based on traditional social/cultural driven assumptions, expectations, roles and responsibilities, not biological science.
Yes, they do...................
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If the B in LGBT stands for Bi doesn't that mean there's only 2 genders sexes.
The number of genders is only limited to the number of delusions people experience. No matter the number of genders there will still be only two sexes, Male and Female.
Well sort of! Male, Female and hermaphrodite:-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_piracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathoey
It was pure “ideology” that early man divided the genders into two. They primitively noted that men looked all the same naked and women looked all the same naked. They primitively noticed that only one of them got pregnant and delivered babies. They might have noted that such a thing only happened after the male had gotten frisky with the female.
But that was only “ideology,” a socially constructed spiritualism or myth.
IF YOU EFFING BUY THAT, HOW CAN YOU LEFTIES BELIEVE IN “RACE” AT ALL? BITCHES, YOU CANT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.
These fascists can’t tell the difference between an innie and an outie?
‘Race’ is a sociological construct...................see how easy that is?......................
“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools...” Romans 1:22
Red, race truly IS a sociological construct, because there is no function behind different looks, today. (I understand if there isn’t clothing or sun protection there is some function to the darker melanin or hair texture). I was taught in anthropology 20 years ago that there may be a “race” factor in human reproduction, with people from very high altitudes, like in the Andes, not being able to conceive with similar tribes from sea level. I don’t know if that was ever followed up. Two tribes who looked fairly alike, had some difficulty “breeding.”
Um ... science says otherwise.
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