This is one area of academia that the left will cling to with their last dying breath. They will not give this up without a fight.The College Fix reports:
Middlebury professor says Trump is forcing her to teach ‘lies’ about ‘gender’A professor at Middlebury College accused President Donald Trump of forcing gender studies scholars to teach “lies about the body, culture and history” to their students.Writing recently at Ms. Magazine, Professor Laurie Essig said “authoritarian” leaders like Trump “always come for gender studies first” in what she described as an effort to control education and knowledge.Essig, who teaches gender studies at the private Vermont college, said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban are other examples.But Trump and other Republican leaders in the U.S. are being more strategic by linking gender studies degrees to career earnings, she said.“By transforming the far right’s ‘war on gender’ into return on investment, the Trump regime can avoid the deeper question of whether knowledge should be controlled by politicians,” she wrote.Through his executive orders, Trump also “would force gender studies to become ‘sex studies’ and teach a series of lies about the body, culture and history,” she wrote.One order, which Trump signed in January, states that there are “two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality. ”Along with Trump, Essig also criticized Florida leaders. She brought up a review commissioned by its Board of Governors to review university women’s and gender studies programs to determine if they are a good return on investment.Essig said it’s unfair to compare gender studies to programs like engineering or nursing, writing:
This is akin to comparing apples to a lone kumquat. After all, gender studies—like humanities in general—is not created to produce specialists, as much as it is meant to teach individuals to read carefully, think deeply, write proficiently and pose thoughtful questions.
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