Trans Activists Pressure Washington State U. to Halt Courses on Risks, Ethics of Gender Medicine
“these activists are silencing scientific debate and threatening academic freedom”
Trans activists are very active. They seem to snap into action at the slightest question on trans issues.
The College Fix reports:
Washington State U. halts courses on risks, ethics of gender medicine after activist pressure
Washington State University suspended a set of continuing medical education courses on gender medicine following pressure from transgender activists that prompted a formal review by the national accrediting body for physician education.
The suspension came after activists and journalists raised concerns about the courses, accusing the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, which created them, of promoting harmful or politically motivated views, The New York Sun reported.
Policy experts, however, told The College Fix these activists are silencing scientific debate and threatening academic freedom.
The courses explored the risks, benefits, and ethical considerations for puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and gender-related surgeries for adolescents.
SEGM organization was founded in 2019 as a loose collective of physicians and researchers concerned about the quality of evidence supporting pediatric gender medicine.
Transgender journalists and activist groups publicly pushed WSU to suspend the courses, criticizing SEGM’s approach to gender medicine research. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s designation of SEGM as a “hate group” added professional and reputational pressure, according to a Substack post by Erin Reed, a journalist involved in calling for the suspension.
Reed wrote that the school’s move to use SEGM’s courses “gives the appearance of legitimacy to a group with opaque funding and a disturbing proximity to far-right, Christian fundamentalist forces.”
“Most damning, critics say, is that listing SEGM as a CME option lends undue legitimacy to a dangerous cell of what the Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed an anti-trans pseudoscience network,” Reed wrote.
The complaints prompted the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, the national body that approves continuing medical education content, to investigate and instruct the school to suspend all SEGM content pending review, The New York Sun reported.
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Why does this fringe partisan pressure group have so much gatekeeping power over our public institutions, and even our government law enforcement establishments under shitlib administrations?
Who voted for the SPLC for a DAMN thing?
“Most damning, critics say, is that listing SEGM as a CME option lends undue legitimacy to a dangerous cell of what the Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed an anti-trans pseudoscience network,” The SPLC is a real piece of work. They bring to mind George Orwell’s admonition that “if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” We must not allow our thoughts to be corrupted despite the twisted language of the SPLC.
If WSU administrators are willing to cave to any shrieking Tom, Dick, and TransHarry, they might as well collectively clear out their desks, shut off their office lights, and go home.
Dear Trans Activists:
No.
-s- Dean T G Grizzly
“Most damning, critics say, is that listing SEGM as a CME option lends undue legitimacy to a dangerous cell of what the Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed an anti-trans pseudoscience network,” And just what exactly is the SPLC other than a anti-science/truth pseudoscience network? The SPLC should be listed as a hate group on its own hate map.
Big Brother: “Ignorance is wisdom.”
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