Berklee College of Music Cancels Event About ‘Detransitioning’ After Threats From Pro-Trans Activists
“Born in the Right Body: desister and detransitioner awareness”
It’s kind of amazing that this event was even going to happen in the first place. Berklee is known for being pretty woke.
Campus Reform reports:
Berklee College of Music cancels event about ‘detransioning’ after flood of hateful comments, threats from pro-trans activists
A college in Boston canceled an event that was meant to discuss the question: “[W]hat happens when you realize you were wrong about being trans?” after facing a massive backlash from pro-transgenderism activists.
The event, “Born in the Right Body: desister and detransitioner awareness,” was originally scheduled for Oct. 20 at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. It was set to be hosted by Simon Amaya Price.
Addressing Price’s bio, the event description reads: “Once identified as trans, now is committed to advocating for social, legal, and medical change, to prevent ongoing medical malpractice in the treatment of gender dysphoria. He believes that kids with gender dysphoria have enough to deal with without being enabled by therapists, teachers, guidance counselors, and doctors to make uninformed life-altering medical decisions.”
Price is a “desister,” which is “someone who previously identified as transgender but who re-identified with their biological sex prior to any medical intervention,” according to the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender. He said his event was meant to “raise awareness about” both desisters and detransitioners.
After Price advertised his event, he received hundreds of comments on social media harassing him, threatening him with violence, and urging him to commit suicide, according to The Daily Signal.
“The determination and the willingness of these people to go out of their way to essentially harass, bully, and slander me is really remarkable and does not make me feel safe on campus,” he said.
Berklee Vice President Ron Savage initially recommended that the event be delayed due to security concerns before “indefinitely postponing” it, something that Price called “a violation of my academic freedom,” reported The Daily Signal.
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You cannot pollute the narrative with reality.
I wonder how long it takes these places to notice that the threats and censorship demands ALWAYS come from the deficient left? So far, never.
hey rushdie *only* lost an eye
They name streets after the “gender affirmation” butchers: ONE WAY.
Apparently, it is okay to effectively sterilize and render a person asexual in the name of “gender affirmation,’ but not the return trip to normalcy.
This is no different than the Dem’s insistence that blacks are Democrats, and if they stray off the reservation, they must be vilified and politically lynched.
It is all destructively infantile.
Schools in the U.S. are not healthy for children and other living things — from pre-K through grad school.