MIT Allows Event Critical of Gender Transitioning to Proceed Despite Protests
“All Transphobes are Fascists”
The left simply cannot tolerate differences of opinion, especially on a topic like this one.
The College Fix reports:
MIT allows event criticizing gender transitioning to proceed despite large protest
A recent event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on concerns about gender transitioning and a fundraiser at a nearby restaurant after the panel drew a large protest and calls for a boycott.
The “Born in the Right Body: Law and Learning Forum” at MIT on May 18 was a collaboration between LGB Courage Coalition and DIAG, or Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting “core liberal values.”
DIAG states online the Democratic Party should continue representing liberal values, but base its conclusions in “biological reality.” LGB Courage Coalition is composed of same-sex attracted individuals from across belief systems “concerned about the current state of gender medicine.”
Prior to the event, the ACLU and a group called 603 Equity lobbied MIT, Eventbrite, and a Cambridge restaurant hosting a fundraiser for the groups after the panel, to cancel the event. The cancellation effort stemmed from the ACLU’s objection to the groups’ views on “pediatric gender medicine.” Neither the ACLU nor 603 Equity responded to The College Fix’s requests for comment.
While the panel event at MIT and the subsequent fundraiser at the Glass House restaurant still took place, the latter drew a large protest of more than a hundred people.
Demonstrators gathered across the street from the event’s dinner and screamed “shut it down,” “f*** your dinner, f*** your hate” and “our lives are not for debate,” as recorded by attendees. Signs hoisted at the protest included “All Transphobes are Fascists” and “Pluck Your Eyes Out.”
An organizer of the protests explained it was in response to the event’s defense of “patriarchal cis-heteronormative society,” in a video taken by “Sidewalk Steve,” an opponent of “the medicalization of gender-confused children.”
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The protesters are all mentally ill and the ACLU would be ashamed of itself if it actually had any shame left.
The ACLU, which used to stand for free speech, came out in support of canceling an event whose speech it didn’t agree with? Sadly, this has become the norm for what used to be a pro-free speech organization that earned its reputation (correctly) defending the right of Nazis to march in Skokie. If you want to support free speech, support FIRE.
The ACLU took off the mask 35 years ago, when they published a poster celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. It gave the First Amendment three separate entries, celebrated the 14th, 15th, and 19th as part of the Bill of Rights, and eliminated all mention of the Second.
Clearly the transfascists don’t tolerate opposition to their agenda.
As for “patriarchal cis-heteronormative society” can these folk speak English, or can they only speak LGTP?