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 minorsThe 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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