Biology professors have to issue warning notes now?
A student sent me this and said “Professors and all the faculty staff are on it. Students are literally afraid to get kicked out of school for speaking out against this “ Why is this in a biology book at a University? pic.twitter.com/tLyFeZmi9c
— Buck Angel® Transsexual (@BuckAngel) July 27, 2023
Gawd, that is awful! To use a biology lab as a validation exercise, and apologize (essentially) to using the correct anatomical terms for reproductive functions. Whoever dreamed this up should be put on a performance review plan to make sure they know the difference between male and female before they are allowed to teach unsupervised again.
The mealy-mouthed “for ease of use” in the note serves to draw attention away from the fact that there are two human sexes, male and female. Those terms are there not because they are easy to use, but because there are two different reproductive systems. The note is there as a sop to gender-woo, which can’t withstand biological scrutiny.
If I had to guess, I’d say that this was written by someone who has no real allegiance to the gender cult and is just trying to head off trouble at the pass. I think the real message here is “please don’t derail the class with trans nonsense, and pretty pretty please don’t go crying to the administration about how I’m a bigot.” This isn’t a woke professor evangelizing; this is a professor tiptoeing around the delicate sensibilities of the woke evangelists.
As the smoke rises upward, possibly, maybe even probably. But PZ i a good example of a biology pref who is captured. He may or may not believe, but it doesn’t matter. He acts like a believer, and in time, has probably convinced himself it’s true. Oh, he may have cognitive dissonance, but if you come out as loudly and nastily as he has, sooner or later you convince yourself you believe.
As for warding them off, I’ve been fortunate. I have had trans individuals in my classes, but no one screamed or went to the administrator when I mentioned the presence of absence of a Y chromosome as a determiner of sex. On my test, I did use the phrase “biological sex”, but only so some transidiot couldn’t use that as an excuse for writing something transidiotic and then crying to the school when it was marked wrong. Biological sex is reality; everything else is just ideology.
Smoke, I think you’re probably right, it’s a beleagured professor who’s just trying to get through Biology 101 without disruptions and walkouts and someone screaming transphobia to the dean. But still, disclaimers in biology textbooks about settled science which happen to upset a certain set of tender faith-based sensibilities…that sounds AWFULLY familiar.
Athel, as a Biology instructor, looking at that, I’m guessing it isn’t a book. It appears to me to be a lab sheet, probably created by the instructor. There are lab books out there, and some profs use them, but it’s also very common to write your own labs based on your students, the equipment you have available, and the fact that many lab books have extraneous stuff that doesn’t relate to the outcomes you are teaching (I would say in this case, the written lab has extraneous stuff that doesn’t relate to the outcomes being taught).
Gawd, that is awful! To use a biology lab as a validation exercise, and apologize (essentially) to using the correct anatomical terms for reproductive functions. Whoever dreamed this up should be put on a performance review plan to make sure they know the difference between male and female before they are allowed to teach unsupervised again.
Who the F has all the power to keep pulling these pranks on us? How is this shit being disseminated?
Unbelievable.
The mealy-mouthed “for ease of use” in the note serves to draw attention away from the fact that there are two human sexes, male and female. Those terms are there not because they are easy to use, but because there are two different reproductive systems. The note is there as a sop to gender-woo, which can’t withstand biological scrutiny.
If I had to guess, I’d say that this was written by someone who has no real allegiance to the gender cult and is just trying to head off trouble at the pass. I think the real message here is “please don’t derail the class with trans nonsense, and pretty pretty please don’t go crying to the administration about how I’m a bigot.” This isn’t a woke professor evangelizing; this is a professor tiptoeing around the delicate sensibilities of the woke evangelists.
As the smoke rises upward, possibly, maybe even probably. But PZ i a good example of a biology pref who is captured. He may or may not believe, but it doesn’t matter. He acts like a believer, and in time, has probably convinced himself it’s true. Oh, he may have cognitive dissonance, but if you come out as loudly and nastily as he has, sooner or later you convince yourself you believe.
As for warding them off, I’ve been fortunate. I have had trans individuals in my classes, but no one screamed or went to the administrator when I mentioned the presence of absence of a Y chromosome as a determiner of sex. On my test, I did use the phrase “biological sex”, but only so some transidiot couldn’t use that as an excuse for writing something transidiotic and then crying to the school when it was marked wrong. Biological sex is reality; everything else is just ideology.
Smoke, I think you’re probably right, it’s a beleagured professor who’s just trying to get through Biology 101 without disruptions and walkouts and someone screaming transphobia to the dean. But still, disclaimers in biology textbooks about settled science which happen to upset a certain set of tender faith-based sensibilities…that sounds AWFULLY familiar.
https://ncse.ngo/creationism-schoolbooks
Shades of creationist apologetics stickers in US evolutionary biology texts.
Which is the book?
Athel, as a Biology instructor, looking at that, I’m guessing it isn’t a book. It appears to me to be a lab sheet, probably created by the instructor. There are lab books out there, and some profs use them, but it’s also very common to write your own labs based on your students, the equipment you have available, and the fact that many lab books have extraneous stuff that doesn’t relate to the outcomes you are teaching (I would say in this case, the written lab has extraneous stuff that doesn’t relate to the outcomes being taught).