Gender is not an ideology – but conservative groups know learning about it empowers people to think for themselves

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(NB article is by US based academics)

Political attacks on teaching about gender in colleges and universities are about more than just gender: They are part of a grander project of eroding civil and human rights, limiting personal freedoms and undermining democracy in the name of “traditional” values.

On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring there are two sexes determined solely by the kind of reproductive cells the body makes, and that the federal government would recognize nothing else. The order claims to protect the “freedom to express the binary nature of sex” and bans the use of federal funds to “promote gender ideology.” Legal experts have criticized the directive as unconstitutional and are challenging it in the courts.

Yet the order has provided fuel for conservatives, right-wing politicians and activists trying to remove so-called gender ideology from many places in American society, including classrooms. Right-wing activists are pushing for censorship of educational curricula in K-12 schools and in colleges and universities, and they have succeeded in Texas, Florida and other red states.

Why are conservative politicians so determined to control how Americans define sex and understand gender?

As sociologists who research and teach about gender, we know that gender across disciplines is understood to be a complex topic of study, not an ideology. The study of gender represents the kind of free inquiry that allows people to decide for themselves how to live, free of coercion or government control.

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Basically these women academics are handmaidens. I'd say 'do it to Julia' types but Winston was actually being tortured and the worst that would happen to them if they stood up for vulnerable women would be social ostracisation.

They're perfectly happy for less fortunate women to be housed with violent male criminals with their massively bigger physical power (men have 160% the punch power of women) and inclination to rape, hurt and murder women. Many women academics have a lot to answer for.

Of course we do have Jo Phoenix and a few others fighting the good fight but they are few and far between and the consequences of acknowledging material reality in many parts of academia are harsh.

All mammals have two sexes which each produce one of two types of gametes . One of each type being required for reproduction. If you're claiming that sex is not binary in all mammals you need to come up with a third gamete and evidence of how it's involved in reproduction - no-one as yet has done this.

98% of all sexual crimes are committed by men and men have 160% the punch power of women. No-one with a brain cell disputes these well-evidenced facts. These two facts alone should result in single sex spaces in certain circumstances and anyone arguing against that is frankly, in my opinion, either stupid or evil (or possibly both). These academics can take their pick.

And apart from anything else they're turning certain parts of academia into a laughing stock that quite clearly should not be funded from government funds