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

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TheBiologyStupid · 01/10/2022 18:19

According to the Bangor Daily News, a newspaper in Maine, USA:

Nearly two dozen graduate students at the University of Southern Maine are demanding their education professor be replaced after the professor allegedly said only two biological sexes exist.

The students said professor Christy Hammer’s remarks were inaccurate and transphobic.

After all but one student walked out of Hammer’s class on Sept. 14 in protest, they demanded a facilitated restorative justice meeting between the 22 students and their professor.

They got it, but, according to students, Hammer maintained her position saying non-binary biological sex designations are merely variations on male and female. Now they want Hammer gone.

www.bangordailynews.com/2022/09/29/news/portland/usm-professor-two-sexes/

Professor Kathleen Stock has tweeted about this ridiculous situation:
twitter.com/Docstockk/status/1576060008533757952

Jerry Coyne, an emeritus professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, has also just written about it: whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/10/01/professor-in-maine-demonized-for-teaching-that-humans-have-two-sexes-students-walk-out-and-demand-her-suspension/

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RoseslnTheHospital · 01/10/2022 18:54

What is genuinely alarming is that these are graduate students who are training to be science teachers. Ffs.

In that article it blithely states that apparently biologists believe that sex is not binary. As always I'd like to know what the additional sexes are and what their role is in mammalian reproduction.

These petulant students should be told that if they choose to not attend classes they will be kicked out of university. Then the lecturer should continue with her teaching.

WandaWomblesaurus · 01/10/2022 18:45

Fuckwits.

TheClogLady · 01/10/2022 18:40

‘I felt under personal attack’?

By who? Charles Darwin?

ReeseWitherfork · 01/10/2022 18:39

Teacher teaches students something.
Students disagree with teacher and demand they are fired.
Teacher gets fired and students no longer have to learn about whatever it was.

Wish this was an option when I was studying calculus because I never did quite get differentiation.

Doesn’t stop differentiation being mathematically correct though.

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TheBiologyStupid · 01/10/2022 18:35

Wellies54 · 01/10/2022 18:31

Leibiger will get a shock when they finally get round to studying reproduction and discover that there are no middle sized gametes.

I'm not so sure, he/she/it has obviously managed to avoid reality so far...!

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Wellies54 · 01/10/2022 18:31

Leibiger will get a shock when they finally get round to studying reproduction and discover that there are no middle sized gametes.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 01/10/2022 18:23

From the article, there are many gems:

Leibiger, who is non-binary, was absent from class that week but learned about the incident from classmates. When Leibiger arrived for the next class, on Sept. 14, they immediately brought up the discussion again.

“I asked [Hammer] how many sexes there were,” Leibiger said. “She said, ‘Two.’ I felt under personal attack.”
Leibiger then gathered their things and walked out of class because they no longer felt respected.

“I let her know I didn’t think she was qualified to teach a class about positive learning environments,” Leibiger said. “It’s the ultimate irony.”

Ereshkigalangcleg · 01/10/2022 18:21

Yes, an American friend of mine in the area sent me this yesterday. We were unsure how much to amplify it as we didn't want to make it worse for her but it looks as if it's past that point now and would benefit from some attention.