The Times on that canceled anthropology panel:
For a big annual conference on anthropology, Kathleen Lowrey, an associate professor at the University of Alberta, put together several panelists around a controversial theme: that their discipline was in the midst of erasing discussions of sex, which they believe is binary — either male or female.
So she collected a panel of speakers, only to have the profession…er…erase it.
That statement again, in case it’s faded over the past few days:
… Read the restIn a joint statement on Thursday, the two sponsors of the conference, the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society, said that they wanted to protect the transgender community: “The session was rejected because it relied on assumptions that