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College allegedly fired biology professor for teaching sex was determined by chromosomes X and Y
Fox News ^ | 6/26/2023 | Kendall Tietz

Posted on 06/26/2023 6:07:21 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat

Four students reportedly walked out of the professor's class when he stated that sex was determined by X and Y chromosomes.

St. Philip's College in San Antonio, Texas reportedly fired one of its biology professors for teaching his students that sex was determined by X and Y chromosomes.

First Liberty Institute, a law firm that defends religious liberty for Americans, sent a letter to the community college on behalf of the professor, Dr. Johnson Varkey, demanding the institution reinstate him after he was fired in January 2023.

"When teaching the human reproductive system, Dr. Varkey also stated that human sex is determined by chromosomes X and Y, and that reproduction must occur between a male and a female to continue the human species," First Liberty stated in its letter. "In the course of teaching Human Anatomy and Physiology, he made these statements in every class for 20 years, without any incident or complaint."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biology; biologydeniers; biologyphobes; biologyphobia; drjohnsonvarkey; drvarkey; homosexualagenda; transgender; varkey; xyxx
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Do the alumni and other donors to this college approve of this?
1 posted on 06/26/2023 6:07:21 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Sure this isn’t a Babylon Bee article?


2 posted on 06/26/2023 6:10:50 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Only in the United States of Lunacy.


3 posted on 06/26/2023 6:10:57 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Why aren’t they following the science?


4 posted on 06/26/2023 6:12:02 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Does anybody really deny that he’s right?

The controversy is supposedly about “gender” as something distinct from biological sex.


5 posted on 06/26/2023 6:12:12 PM PDT by x
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To: Republican Wildcat

“Science” is no longer the search for truth in nature.

Yet another word redefined by the progressives.

(e.g. liberal, Marxist, immigrant, Nazi, racist, etc.)


6 posted on 06/26/2023 6:14:55 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: ArcadeQuarters
Platypuses have 10 sex chromosomes. Maybe folks are identifying as platypuses.


7 posted on 06/26/2023 6:17:19 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Republican Wildcat

“First Liberty Institute, a law firm that defends religious liberty for Americans...”

I appreciate them sticking up for this person, but this is NOT a matter of religious liberty. It is a question of SCIENTIFIC TRUTH.

I mean, is this the argument now? I believe in biology due to my religious convictions? I understand there are some scientific questions that cause controversy among certain religious believers, but male & female ain’t one of them. As to evolution, etc. that’s all very interesting and maybe even important, but it’s impact on most people’s everyday lives is nil.

You know, I’m really getting to be on the verge of despair from this stuff. I just don’t see how we are going to get out of this without massive bloodshed, because the people that are supposedly, presumably, running our society have lost their minds. There’s not a schizo homeless drug addict trannie laying in in the gutter anywhere who is any crazier than these people are.


8 posted on 06/26/2023 6:17:53 PM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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To: HighSierra5

“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.
Need any more proof?


9 posted on 06/26/2023 6:18:28 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: ArcadeQuarters
Why aren’t they following the science?

They are following "the Science," which has nothing to do with what we used to think of as science.

10 posted on 06/26/2023 6:18:39 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Republican Wildcat

Jesus will be coming back soon....


11 posted on 06/26/2023 6:20:16 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: Republican Wildcat
There is a distinction between “sex” and “gender” that I'm starting to understand. “Sex” is dictated by biology. “Gender” is more a state of mind, usually set by social cues and conventions.

“Queer” is part of gender.

Unfortunately, statute doesn't differentiate between sex and gender. Which is why there is a huge bru-ha-ha on the subject.

12 posted on 06/26/2023 6:21:23 PM PDT by asinclair (What doesn't kill you makes you stronger)
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To: Republican Wildcat

And if a young man identifies as a female, he/she can have a uterus and get pregnant? Nope! X and Y chromosomes determine his sex at his conception! Same goes for young women identifying as a male, she/he has no testicles and sperm to cause another female to get pregnant. Science is a fact in determining sex at birth! Despite what BS liberals say.


13 posted on 06/26/2023 6:21:43 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Hey there!
Everybody knows that sex is determined by this, ONLY!

If you want sons, dip your dick in ice water for 30 minutes before intercourse.
Females? 30 minutes under the hair dryer! Then “go for it!”


14 posted on 06/26/2023 6:22:26 PM PDT by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: BereanBrain

“ Jesus will be coming back soon…”

People have been saying that for a thousand years. I’m not counting on it happening anytime soon.

You shouldn’t either.

L


15 posted on 06/26/2023 6:22:43 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

In other breaking news, the Sun revolves around the Earth.

(Because it identifies as such).


16 posted on 06/26/2023 6:24:35 PM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: HighSierra5
Sure this isn’t a Babylon Bee article?

It is. Obviously.

17 posted on 06/26/2023 6:32:25 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Next comes the math department for insisting that a correct answer for 2+2 is “4”.


18 posted on 06/26/2023 6:35:58 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Republican Wildcat

When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you


19 posted on 06/26/2023 6:39:53 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Lurker

ahh, soon is a relative term.

I think you would agree we are closer now than we were before.
Many scriptures have been fulfilled in the last 50 years that were not in the prior 1900.

And to your comment, here’s what scripture says. I don’t think you want to to agree with the folks depicted in verse 4.


2 Peter 3:3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.[a]


20 posted on 06/26/2023 6:43:25 PM PDT by BereanBrain
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