University Professor Loses Admin Job For Stating That ‘Men Cannot Get Pregnant’

 

A professor at the University of Alberta was fired from her administration role because her views on gender (based on the fact that one’s biological sex is real) made some students to “feel unsafe”.

Kathleen Lowrey is an associate professor of anthropology at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Alberta, in Canada. She is also serving as the chair of the undergraduate program – an administrative role which includes duties such as chairing a committee about courses, approving transfer credits, and running a special seminar for honors students in the department.

She’s also a feminist. However, according to some anonymous students and the higher-ups of her University, she is not the right kind of feminist. Because she believes that women are… women. Even worse, she believes that men cannot be women because they don’t have a vagina.

These extreme and radical views caused her to become “problematic” as she was pressured to leave her administrative role. When she refused to do so, she was fired.

Lowrey says she was told in meetings that complaints, made to the dean of students and the university’s Office of Safe Disclosure and Human Rights, were that her views on feminism were making students “feel unsafe” and there were concerns this was driving students away from choosing anthropology as a major. She doesn’t know exactly the nature of the complaints — or who made them — because they were made informally and anonymously, she said.

She said she was also told she had been discouraging students from organizing Pride events, which she denies. It was this claim which led her to conclude the complaints centered around her views on gender.

Following a subsequent meeting with the dean of the faculty, she received a letter saying she couldn’t effectively continue in the role and her leaving would be in the best interests of the department. Lowrey said the letter didn’t expound upon the reasons for her dismissal, and she maintains she has never been given proper reasons for her dismissal in writing.

Lowrey describes herself as a “gender-critical feminist” who considers biological sex of primordial importance in fighting for women’s rights. While, only a few years ago, this precept was the norm in feminist circles, it is now deemed bad and “transphobic”.

Until what seems like a few minutes ago, there was nothing controversial about this opinion. But now there is. The only “correct” opinion to hold is that gender expression trumps biology in any rights-based claims. And in academic circles, Lowrey’s views, which she is at no pains to hide on campus and off, are a form of apostasy that cries out for punishment.

Lowrey boils her views on feminism down to a few key ideas: Men cannot get pregnant, lesbians don’t have penises, and biological sex is real. These common sense views apparently made students feel “unsafe” and “caused them harm”.
We are talking about a University (a place of the highest learning possible) being “harmed” by the pre-school teaching that “boys have weewees”.

In an interview with the Edmonton Journal, Lowrey explained the rationale behind her views:
“People should be able to express their gender in whatever manner they wish (but) I don’t agree with biological sex being irrelevant. I think treating biological sex as irrelevant has some really serious policy implications. As an example, housing trans-identified men in women’s prisons is not fair to women prisoners and I think it puts women at risk.”

“I said on the first day of class we’re going to read material in this class that are currently out of fashion in academia. You certainly don’t have to agree with me. Since this is a university, I think it’s important to be exposed to it — this is important literature they should be aware of.

The university has said it’s perfectly fine to fire people for doubting that men can get pregnant, for doubting lesbians can have penises. The implications are very dangerous because this is a live issue in our contemporary Canadian democracy.”

She is also worried about students who agree with her but are afraid to voice their opinion due to the current climate of intimidation.

“They’re not paranoid. Because this is not an abstruse problem, it’s a live debate in our current society and for the university to take the position that if you’re on the wrong side of this, we’re going to fire you, is terrifying for students.”

When she was pressured to resign, Lowrey refused to do so, arguing that the onus was on the university to dismiss her and to explain its reasons in writing. The Dean of arts then dismissed her in writing with the vague reason: “It is not in the best interests of the students or the university for Lowrey to continue sitting.”

In other words, Lowrey wanted the university to justify in writing the basic principle behind her dismissal. There was none. The sad fact is that Lowrey was probably targeted by the radical groups that are turning universities into indoctrination camps. And the university caved into the pressure. This is happening all over the world.

J.K. Rowling Also Under Attack

Until recently, the author of the Harry Potter series J.K. Rowling has been enjoying unlimited praise from the social justice crowd. However, things soured greatly when she began expressing her views regarding gender a few months ago. More recently, Rowling expressed her frustration towards an absurdly-worded headline that uses the expression “people who menstruate” instead of “women”.

The response to this tweet was immediate. And, of course, mass media amplified everything to make it a big issue. Somehow, the tweet was interpreted as being “transphobic” – even though she never expressed any kind of “phobia” towards trans people. Rowling was also accused of being a TERF – an acronym for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist”. Yes, they are very good at inventing words for censoring ideas.

As if on cue, Harry Potter himself took his broom and flew into the debate to “correct” Rowling.

Faced with this kind of backlash, many retract what they say and apologize profusely. J.K. Rowling stood her ground and tried to clarify things. However, small chance it will quell the Twitter bots programmed to attack anything that goes against the Agenda.

Although we might fundamentally disagree with both Lowrey and Rowlings on a wide range of topics, we can agree on some basic facts. First, telling the truth is not an act of hate – it is an act of telling the truth. Second, one’s gender is based on one’s genitals. The words gender and genitals both come from the Latin root gen, which means “to reproduce”. Gender is based on one’s reproductive organs. The fact that one declares that they identify as another gender does not change one’s actual gender. However, that is what is being forced on the world right now. Some like cite WHO-funded “studies” from 2015 to explain that sex and gender are not the same. How about the “studies” from the last several thousands of years before that?

There are currently men who “identify as women” competing in women’s sports and dominating them. Newsflash: Men and women have different bodies. Are we seriously becoming that delusional?

This agenda is nothing less than insane. And they know it. For this reason, they do not encourage rational debates based on facts. Instead, they label those they disagree with as “hateful”. The result: University professors get shunned and authors get attacked by media, even though they did not say anything hateful. As Rowling stated: “It isn’t hate to speak the truth”.

LGBTQs are society’s fakest and most privileged “victims” who perpetually receive more special treatment than anybody else

Known as Bostock v. Clayton County, the case that led to this ruling involved a homosexual man by the name of Gerald Bostock who had worked in child welfare services in Georgia before allegedly being fired for joining an LGBTQ softball league.

Bostock says he was criticized by his supervisor for his sexual orientation and made to feel less than before ultimately being terminated for “conduct unbecoming” of Clayton County’s employee standards.
Now, some 8.1 million LGBTQ workers across the United States will be shielded from scrutiny, as anything that comes their way that might be unpleasant, whether it be a reprimand for “poor work performance” or “sexually suggestive behavior” towards other employees, could be dubbed “discrimination” and ruled as such by the legal system.

The case represents the first involving LGBTQ issues since Justice Anthony Kennedy retired and was replaced by Brett Kavanaugh. Kennedy, as you may recall, was the author of the landmark ruling in 2015 that legalized so-called “same-sex marriage”.

Meanwhile, conservatives, Christians, and other apparent minority groups still have no legal shield against discrimination, hate and violence. They can still be wrongfully terminated from their jobs, or driven out of them by the leftist mob, without consequence.

Will the Supreme Court under Trump ever declare that conservative Christians in America must be afforded the same protections as everybody else? Will they be protected from being driven out of their jobs and livelihoods, or protected from having to bake cakes and perform other business functions that violate their free expression of religion?

At this point in time, only the LGBTQs are getting special treatment, as is usually the case. Somehow, they are always the perpetual victims in society, even as they get most of the attention, support and praise from society for their “bravery” in just being “who they are.”

LGBTQ is now a “protected” class according to Supreme Court, but conservatives are ROUTINELY discriminated against and have no protections?

Homosexuals, transgenders and all others in the rainbow tribe are full of pride after the recent Supreme Court decision adding LGBTQ protections to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But what about conservatives, who are still discriminated against while being afforded no protections?

The landmark 6-3 vote expands the definition of a key provision known as Title VII that prohibits discrimination against someone on the basis of sex, which the court now says includes LGBTQ status or expression. Employers can no longer do anything to homosexuals or transsexuals that might be deemed as “discrimination,” in other words.

“An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex,” stated Trump appointee Justice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote the decision for those in favor of the change.
“Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.”

The only dissenters to the ruling were Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas. Writing for the dissenters, Justice Alito explained that it is “preposterous” for the court to try to convince readers of Title VII that it somehow includes protections for the full LGBTQ spectrum of perversion.
“Even as understood today, the concept of discrimination because of ‘sex’ is different rom discrimination because of ‘sexual orientation’ or ‘gender identity’,” he wrote, explaining that the ruling does not represent “merely enforcing the terms of [Title VII].”

Mike Adams, an influential alternative media journalist, discussed in several online debates how leftists who support these types of agendas are infused with demonic evil that is diametrically opposed to God’s will.

 

yogaesoteric
September 10, 2020