Faculty Senate at U. Michigan Urges School to Continue Performing Sex Changes for Minors
“reaffirms its support for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse folks and their right to comprehensive, accessible, and life-saving gender-affirming care”
Progressives in higher education are not listening to the country on this topic; they just keep doubling down.
Campus Reform reports:
UMich faculty senate urges school to continue performing sex changes for minors
The Faculty Senate at the University of Michigan passed a resolution at its Nov. 3 meeting that pushes the university to resume performing sex changes on minors.
The resolution argues that because “cisgender” patients receive hormone blockers, the university is discriminating against transgender-identifying individuals by refusing to give them care. The resolution does not elaborate further, but could be referring to treatments for precocious puberty, a condition in which young children go through puberty at a very early age.
The university paused “gender-affirming care” at Michigan Medicine for patients under 19 on Aug. 25, due to federal pressure. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January that threatened loss of federal funding for institutions that failed to eliminate the practice.
But now, the Faculty Senate is demanding that the university reverse course. According to the resolution, the senate “reaffirms its support for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse folks and their right to comprehensive, accessible, and life-saving gender-affirming care.”
A record number of faculty members, 3,638 out of 7,808, attended the recent meeting, and an overwhelming majority supported the resolution on “gender-affirming care.” According to The Michigan Daily, 2,432 faculty members voted in favor, 555 voted against, and 651 abstained.
“We’re the leading public research university in the United States, and to an extent greater than they’ve ever done in their history, our faculty have signaled their interest in having us work with the administration to address some of the pressing problems that we collectively confront,” Senate Advisory Committee Chairman Derek Peterson told The Michigan Daily.
Other universities have decided to stop providing “gender-affirming care” for minors following President Trump’s executive order, including the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.
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And this is a reason this university will never get a penny from me. Well to be honest all three universities I attended are nutso and will never get a penny. It’s all why I believe they should all be burned down hopefully with the admins and professors and many of the students still within.
So, just over one-third of the faculty voted in favor of this. Can any of them explain exactly how puberty blockers and mutilation surgery qualify as “life-saving” care?
We’re not talking about surgery, because that doesn’t happen for minors. We’re talking about the drugs, and those do have genuine medical applications. I know someone who was prescribed these as a child; she was always a very girly girl, in no doubt whatsoever about her gender identity, and she remained so. Thanks to the drugs she developed normally and is now married with children.
The drugs are no longer being prescribed to children who have no medical need for them, but want them in order to help resolve their gender identity crises. There’s an argument for using them for that purpose, and if they were as harmless as their proponents make them out to be then it would be fine, but the evidence is that they aren’t. So the university is no longer prescribing them for such purposes, and that’s what these people are complaining about. Invalidly.
It appears that the UM faculty is using the same argument that the US Supreme Court rejected in United States v. Skrmetti. The basic argument is that it is sex discrimination if the state approves of a medication for a male, it does not approve that same medication for a female. This view is fine for common bodily functions but treatment of abnormalities in the hormonal system need to take into account sex differences. Thinking otherwise is clearly the ultimate extrapolation of the argument for the equality of sexes to state in effect that they are biologically and physiologically identical. Science anyone?
Furthermore in the same case, Justice Barrett in an concurring opinion drove what should be a dagger through the heart of the matter. She argued that transgendered people were not marked by “obvious, immutable, or distinguishing characteristics as race or sex”. Anyone can identify at any time as something else but there is no objective test by a third party that is capable of verifying that claim. To the greatest extent possible, laws, rules, and regulations should be based on objectively verifiable parameters because the inevitable disputes should be resolved based on objective truths.
A classic argument that it cannot be falsified.
This is just not true. Transgender-identifying children are given those drugs in exactly the same circumstances that cisgender-identifying ones are. If the drugs are medically indicated, they are prescribed and supplied regardless of how the child identifies. If they aren’t then they aren’t, again regardless of the child’s identification. The prescribing physician neither asks nor cares about the child’s identity; they only care about the child’s medical needs. So there’s no discrimination.
Now if the doctor, having decided that the child needs these drugs, would ask about their identification, and say oh, if you think you’re the opposite sex then I won’t prescribe the drugs, that would be discrimination. But that doesn’t happen.
I think the faculy here shuold put their own children up for the offering since they are so interested in giving children medications and surgeries that have been shown the world over to be irreversible and harmful. Not so fun when it’s your son and daughter getting osteoprosis in their 20’s, having severe vaginal pain, an inability to ever orgasm, huge weight gain and loss of capacity to reproduce. Not to mention we have no iea what it does to cognitive functioning, as puberty blockers are preventing the essential stage of puberty were massive frontal lobe devlopment occurs. It could leave a person addled with a permanently immature brain. Yup do it on the backs of your children not ours.
The UM faculty senate obviously isn’t thinking like the administration, which, for its part, has to worry about multi-million dollar lawsuits and funding reductions.