Epoch Times:
A child psychiatry expert at the University of Louisville is suing the school for forcing him out after he publicly expressed skepticism about “transgender ideology,” which allows gender-confused young people to select the gender of their choice and which has been rapidly gaining acceptance in the world of medicine.
Failing to toe the politically correct line on gender can be costly nowadays.
A New York human rights law banning so-called gender identity discrimination imposes fines of up to $250,000 for failing to use a person’s preferred personal pronoun.
Social media giant Twitter now bans users for “misgendering” or “deadnaming” transgender people, categorizing it as harassment and abuse. Deadnaming is referring to people by names they used before they changed their gender identity—for example, calling Caitlyn Jenner by that person’s birth name, Bruce Jenner.
Facebook reportedly recognizes at least 58 genders, allowing users to select which gender to use in their profile self-descriptions. Among them are Androgynous, Bigender, Cisgender, Gender Fluid, Genderqueer, Non-binary, Pangender, Trans, and Two-Spirit.
Professor Allan Josephson, former head of the university’s Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, asserts in a lawsuit initiated in U.S. District Court in Louisville, that he was discriminated against, demoted, and effectively fired for his now-unfashionable scientific belief that sex is “immutable,” “based on objective facts,” “binary (i.e., male [having a chromosomal complement of XY] or female [having a chromosomal complement of XX]),” and “fixed in each person at the moment of conception.”
Josephson, who publicly opposes “transgender ideology,” has said children shouldn’t be allowed to use bathrooms based on their own self-selected gender identity, and that parents should listen “empathetically” to their children and then guide them to align with their biological sex. more here
I do hope Prof. Josephson prevails in his suit, but I fear he won’t.
Sanity is no longer a recognized legal concept, only insanity is.
I must be past my ‘expiration date’.
I NEVER thought I’d live to see such lunacy.
He made the mistake of thinking he was there to inform and educate students.
Why does a “transgender” person’s subjective view of reality trump my objective view of reality?
I will also never understand someone who says they “identify” as something other than what they are. How do they know? Each of us only knows how it feels to be us. I only know how it feels to be Racer X. I have no idea what it would mean to be Trixie, so to claim that I feel like Trixie would be lunacy.
What distinguishes, for example, two-spirit from non-binary? Is cisgender the same as male, or female? Can you even declare to be just male nowadays?
These are urgent questions because legal penalties, careers, and reputations hang on knowing these genders and correctly naming them.
“Josephson, who publicly opposes “transgender ideology,” has said children shouldn’t be allowed to use bathrooms based on their own self-selected gender identity, and that parents should listen “empathetically” to their children and then guide them to align with their biological sex.”
…which is exactly what USED to happen, before the Left infiltrated the Children’s Hospitals, used Obamacare to chase all the experienced doctors into retirement, and then changed the rules to get rid of anyone who still made sense…
…my son is too old for “Children’s Hospital”, for which I thank God. If he had decided he wasn’t a he at some point, not only would they have gleefully fed that delusion, they would have also had my wife and I prosecuted for “child abuse” for not putting him in ribbons and bows immediately…
My best advice to HIM is, put off starting a family for as long as possible, until the pendulum swings the other way, as it always WILL.
…although it usually takes a war to make it do so…
Gibson has led the way. Sie, baby.
Most of these institutions still have rules, bylaws and such that labels genders exactly like these professors did who now stand athwart The Current Truth shrugging their shoulders and shouting “What in the actual fuck?”
A rose by any other name is still a rose! A mentally sick man or woman by any other name is still a mentally sick man or woman!