Originally a comment by maddog on Speaking of self-discipline and judgement.

[S]ince 1966, the AAUP has also agreed on a Statement on Professional Ethics. [5] Per this 1966 Statement, professors are obligated to “exercise critical self-discipline and judgment in using, extending, and transmitting knowledge” and to “practice intellectual honesty”. We take this to mean that as academics, we also have a responsibility to the public to not misconstrue the scope of our expertise, nor comment in our capacity as academics on issues where we lack the requisite expertise. to not tell lies

FIFY

If you want to model the principles of academic ethics, the first principle is: be honest. Don’t lie. Without that first principle, none of the other precepts matter.

You don’t need any expertise, academic or otherwise, to know that there are two sexes, and that males are not female.

You hide behind the empty phrase “gender affirming care.” You really should be required — you know, to comply with your own code of ethics, i.e., to “exercise critical self-discipline and judgment in using, extending, and transmitting knowledge” and to “practice intellectual honesty” — to lay out exactly what “gender affirming care” for minors consists of. It’s off-label use of drugs to halt the normal development of a child into an adult. That can have permanent consequences, depriving the patient of their one and only opportunity to achieve full maturation of body and brain It’s the pipeline into other medicalization of children with wrong sex hormones. For adolescent girls, it’s elective and unnecessary double mastectomy, removing healthy tissues for purely cosmetic reasons. For some, it means experimental surgery to mimic (poorly) the external genital organs of the opposite sex. The creation of neogenitalia through surgery often has complications, requiring further surgeries, further pain, further recovery time, all futile in effect. None of these measures will ever succeed in changing the sex of the patient.

Exercise a little honesty and integrity yourselves.