Students call for professor at University of Southern Maine to be replaced after teaching that there are only two sexes

virginiasroom.co.uk/2022/01/sex-denialism-collective-insanity-or-religion/

This is the best commentary on all of this madness that I've read so far.

Quite a lot of mothers are here on Mumsnet!

We have quite a lot of experience that sex, as in sexed bodies, is real!
Otherwise, many of us would happily opt for our men doing our pregnancy, childbirth including caesareans and episiotomies, and all resulting shit, for us!

Gender - well, what is your star sign7

Even the author of the Nature article the news article cites accepts that there are 2 sexes: mobile.twitter.com/tenin0/status/1576012336883593217

What? The aggressive male in the video? Not a "her" in a million years! That's a man, We can tell. It's quite easy to tell that he's a bloke, despite his show of male aggression and confrontation!

There are two sexes: female, male.

Gender? Seven billion genders!

One sex cannot turn into the other sex. Not possible in mammalian biology.

What the hell are they teaching graduates these days, it sounds worrying if they are being lied to on very basic matters of sex and being human.

She speaks the truth. Well done to her.

The fucking problem with “not saying it” is that there is a growing percentage of the population that actually believes this ideological bullshit - because no one is permitted to tell the truth!

It is bloody weird that it always needs to be said, at the moment, that women are women and men can never be women.

Two sexes. That's all.

Women are women, and men are men. And men can never be women.

Men need to sort out their own shit, not expect women to move over and pander to them and go "Yes, Sir; ooops, sorry, Ma'am".

Here is a well-documented example of a "new woman" - !

These are university students who get upset when a lecturer tells them that there are just two sexes?

Deargoddesses, wot next!

One of the students who objected is studying to become a high school science teacher.

Of course nonsensical ideas about how procreation works need to be challenged, this person wants to teach this bullshit in schools!

Of course it needs to be said. A lot more, in fact.

I don't think the fact that there indeed are only 2 biological sexes is the issue here, it is whether it needed to be said in the circumstances .
.It us like saying that overall black people score lower than white and Asian people on intelligence tests.You just don't end to bring it up

Those students just seem really dense. They have confused the concept 'identity' with 'sex' and then had a big tantrum when people have not gone along with their confusion.

Harsh.

To be fair if you are frightened of someone because their belief is not based in material biology, then there are 2 dysfunctional people at your workplace...

And yeah neither of you is going to last long with that type of mental stamina...

In my observations, they don't function well and end up in poor situations living off family or social services.

There's so many things wrong with this, including pandering to have a restorative justice session with the entitled students. Why bother going to college when you know more than the professors? Isn't that a massive waste of money (I'm going on a limb here to assume the non-binary complainer has an excess of parental financial assistance). Parents of young children, beware who is graduating with recent teacher training. Try to opt for the older teachers, especially those teaching biology and grammar lessons.

Sadly, this behavior reminds me of a young non-binary adult I know, who recently shouted at an 11yr old boy with autism for making 'uneducated judgements on people'. You can't make this up. I had to apologize to the young boy's mother for being subjected to this adult in my home. The non-binary adult thought shouty education was social justice work, and still doesn't understand what is wrong with yelling at children. In my experience, non-binary is anti-social behavior.

They're graduate students too.
Good grief

"That's nice dear. Now getting back to the figures..."

I'm really quite frightened at the prospect of coming across people like this at work. Most people I work with (large corporate) are 30+ but it's only a matter of time, isn't it? How do they function in the real world and how do sensible people around them manage?

How are they going to actually cope in the real working world.

I keep hoping something will p...fuck...take him to the* *top of a mountain. This is in his backyard and pretty indefensible.

I believe it does

Does "Whiny pathetic narcissist student" class as a gender identity?

The students should be kicked out. How the hell they ever got into uni is a mystery. Unless, of course, the can produce the additional sexes.