George Washington U. Debate Event Open Only to Women and Transgenders
“Women and anyone who does not identify as cis male will be welcome to compete”
Imagine if an event like this barred women and trans people. All hell would break loose.
Campus Reform reports:
Only women, transgenders are allowed in GW debate tournament
Only women and transgender individuals will be allowed to compete in an April debate tournament hosted by the George Washington University Parliamentary Debate Society.
Both organizations hosting the gender minority tournaments are part of the American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA). The league, composed entirely of college students, voted on the proposal Jan. 25 at the NorthAms Tournament held at Rutgers University. In order for the proposal to pass, two-thirds of member schools had to vote in favor of it.
“We specifically pushed for the tournament to happen, but the league had to approve it by majority vote,” Matt Cryer, President of the GW Debate Team told Campus Reform.
One GW student pushed back against the tournament in an op-ed for the student paper.
“While the new debate tournaments have been framed as a way to prioritize women and gender minority debaters, this sort of arrangement does little to actually bridge disparities in the way genders are treated differently when it comes to debate,” GW student Galen Ekimov argued in a Hatchet op-ed.
Rachel Kane and Joey Schnide, who respectively served as former president and vice president of the George Washington Parliamentary Debate Society, wrote a letter to the editor responding to the criticism.
“It is essential to create spaces where gender minorities can find support, meet mentors and peers and feel empowered by seeing successful women,” they claim. “The people who compete at the gender minority tournament are still going to be competing against men at dozens of other competitions throughout the year.”
“Women and anyone who does not identify as cis male will be welcome to compete, and registration is no questions asked,” Cryer told Campus Reform.
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“Women and anyone who does not identify as cis male will be welcome to compete, and registration is no questions asked,”
Go ahead … keep it up. It won’t be long until no one gives a rats ass about anyone else because of all the flack.
I’m more woke. No I am. No your not. Yes I am….
There is one inescapable conclusion based on the logic of their vote.
Men can’t mentor women. At all.
So, what is the purpose of Title IX?
“gender minority tournament”?
I thought females were majorities on campus now