There is no discipline of study that will be spared from the left’s agenda. It is being embedded in everything.
Campus Reform reports:
Harvard class on Byzantine Empire to study ‘trans monks’ and ‘genderless angels’A Harvard University course this fall semester will study “trans monks,” cross-dressing, “genderless angels,” and intersectionality in the Byzantine Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire).The course, “Gender in Byzantium,” focuses “on the entire spectrum of binary and non-binary conceptualizations, representations and performances of gender in Byzantium by exploring textual and visual material alongside recent scholarship on gender and sexuality.”“Topics for discussion include: normative concepts and representations of masculinity and femininity; asceticism and the gendered body; emotions and gender; same-sex desire and relationships (homosociality); cross-dressing (trans monks?); intersectionality (gender, race and class); authorial (cis- and trans-) gender performance; eunuchs (a ‘third gender’?); incorporeal/genderless angels,” the course description continues.One course text, “Byzantine Intersectionality,” labels the terms “transvestite” and “cross-dressing” as “problematic.” Referring to women who pretended to be male eunuchs in order to live as monks, the text adds: “[S]cholars repeatedly have shied away from referring to these figures as ‘transgender,’ instead calling them ‘transvestite nuns,’ ‘cross-dressing’ saints, or women in ‘disguise.’ These pejorative terms, which are pervasive throughout the historiography, negate these subjects’ identification as transgender persons.”The text gives the example of Marinos, a woman–whom the text consistently refers to as “he” and “him”–who snuck her way into a monastery and successfully passed herself off as a man in order to become a monk. The text also refers to her life as “a typical narrative for a transgender monk.”Another course text, “Women, Men, and Gender in Christianity,” claims that the Gospels “enshrine” anti-Semitic rhetoric, and that “Gender has been an idea of considerable fluidity throughout history, and throughout Christian history as well.”
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