#genderideology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #genderideology, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/205723/ Pedro Sánchez’s Weird Socialist Experiment Must End with Ceuta #ceuta #EuropeanUnion #GenderIdeology #IdeologicalEngineering #IllegalMigration #LGBT #MassMigration #PedroSánchez #resistance #Sanchismo #SecurityThreat #SocialTransformation #spain
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1174395/ Pedro Sánchez’s Weird Socialist Experiment Must End with Ceuta #ceuta #EU #Europe #EuropeanUnion #GenderIdeology #IdeologicalEngineering #IllegalMigration #LGBT+ #MassMigration #PedroSanchez #resistance #Sanchismo #SecurityThreat #SocialTransformation #Spain
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re: gender ideology + the fear of destruction
“So I’m not a voluntarist. I don’t think people get up in the morning and decide what gender they’re going to be today, but I do think that we’ve been naive about how deep-seated certain notions of gender are…So I don’t think we’re totally voluntaristic, like I can be anything, nor do I think we’re totally determined. And performativity is a way of naming that space between philosophical determinism and voluntarism…people struggle in different ways to revise their history—not make up a new history, but to find new ways of living in the midst of having been formed. That’s performativity…How do we think about developmental biology in relationship to cultural anthropology and the humanities? I don’t know; I find that interesting. It doesn’t scare me, but for some people—[they want] no complexity. But human life is complex, and we are a complexity of factors that go into making who we are.“
From a chat between Distinguished Professor Judith Butler and Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson.
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#TrumpRegime #woke #GenderIdeology #DEI #science
"The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
'Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.'
A sneaky rule change has the potential to blow up scientific research in the United States. But there’s still time to fight it.
On May 29th, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a 412-page proposal to revise federal financial assistance. The language is a combination of distinctly Trumpian attacks on 'woke' policies and boring governmentese designed to make your eyes glaze over as quickly as possible. But under phrases like 'providing further clarification on the regulatory status of the OMB requirements' is something darker — a threat to scientific research in this country, the livelihoods of thousands of scientists, and the lives of millions of vulnerable people.
If this rule change goes forward, science in the US 'will stop,' says Colette Delawalla, the founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. 'It won’t exist anymore.'
But OMB must look at — and address — all substantive public comments, and the rule change remains open for comments until July 13th. Another route also has potential. If Congress submits an objection, it’s possible the rule change would not go forward.The rule change would require political oversight of more than $1 trillion of federal grants across 42 different agencies. Federal grants are what pay for most of the scientific research, and the researchers, at universities across the country, from research into new vaccines to studies on natural hazards. If the rule passes, political appointees could look over and veto any grant, for any reason, at any time. Scientists could not collaborate with colleagues in many other countries. They could not go to conferences without preapproval, and would be prevented from using their research money to publish their work so the public could access it. All federal grants must align with 'the President’s policy priorities,' and all mentions of 'DEI' (diversity, equity, and inclusion) or 'gender ideology' are immediately off the table. People applying for research funding who can’t fulfill these demands, the rule change says, are welcome to get funding elsewhere. If you don’t like it, the document implies, leave.
(. . .)
The rule change document is not shy about the reasons. It states that 'in 2021 Federal agencies became increasingly focused on using their award programs to serve a ‘woke’ policy agenda.' The new level of review will ensure that grants 'advance the President’s policy priorities,' providing muscle to President Trump’s Executive Order 14332, and echoes the 'Gold Standard Science' touted in Executive Order 14303.
'Rolling out the, ‘Oh, we’re going to have a gold standard of peer review, all science is going to have to meet this standard, which is not defined,’ ignores the fact that that standard already exists and is clearly well defined,' Gill says.In keeping with the administration’s weird fixation on 'DEI' and trans people, part of that 'Gold Standard' is making sure that agencies explicitly do not fund diversity initiatives, that everyone accepts 'the biological reality of sex or the sex binary in humans,' and that no federal grant promotes 'the so-called ‘transition’ of a child under 19 years of age from one sex to another.' That means no research grants for health equity for people of color or LGBTQIA+. Many of those grants, including clinical trials, have already been cancelled. Why use a dog whistle when you can simply scream?"
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#TrumpRegime #woke #GenderIdeology #DEI #science
"The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
'Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.'
A sneaky rule change has the potential to blow up scientific research in the United States. But there’s still time to fight it.
On May 29th, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a 412-page proposal to revise federal financial assistance. The language is a combination of distinctly Trumpian attacks on 'woke' policies and boring governmentese designed to make your eyes glaze over as quickly as possible. But under phrases like 'providing further clarification on the regulatory status of the OMB requirements' is something darker — a threat to scientific research in this country, the livelihoods of thousands of scientists, and the lives of millions of vulnerable people.
If this rule change goes forward, science in the US 'will stop,' says Colette Delawalla, the founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. 'It won’t exist anymore.'
But OMB must look at — and address — all substantive public comments, and the rule change remains open for comments until July 13th. Another route also has potential. If Congress submits an objection, it’s possible the rule change would not go forward.The rule change would require political oversight of more than $1 trillion of federal grants across 42 different agencies. Federal grants are what pay for most of the scientific research, and the researchers, at universities across the country, from research into new vaccines to studies on natural hazards. If the rule passes, political appointees could look over and veto any grant, for any reason, at any time. Scientists could not collaborate with colleagues in many other countries. They could not go to conferences without preapproval, and would be prevented from using their research money to publish their work so the public could access it. All federal grants must align with 'the President’s policy priorities,' and all mentions of 'DEI' (diversity, equity, and inclusion) or 'gender ideology' are immediately off the table. People applying for research funding who can’t fulfill these demands, the rule change says, are welcome to get funding elsewhere. If you don’t like it, the document implies, leave.
(. . .)
The rule change document is not shy about the reasons. It states that 'in 2021 Federal agencies became increasingly focused on using their award programs to serve a ‘woke’ policy agenda.' The new level of review will ensure that grants 'advance the President’s policy priorities,' providing muscle to President Trump’s Executive Order 14332, and echoes the 'Gold Standard Science' touted in Executive Order 14303.
'Rolling out the, ‘Oh, we’re going to have a gold standard of peer review, all science is going to have to meet this standard, which is not defined,’ ignores the fact that that standard already exists and is clearly well defined,' Gill says.In keeping with the administration’s weird fixation on 'DEI' and trans people, part of that 'Gold Standard' is making sure that agencies explicitly do not fund diversity initiatives, that everyone accepts 'the biological reality of sex or the sex binary in humans,' and that no federal grant promotes 'the so-called ‘transition’ of a child under 19 years of age from one sex to another.' That means no research grants for health equity for people of color or LGBTQIA+. Many of those grants, including clinical trials, have already been cancelled. Why use a dog whistle when you can simply scream?"
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#TrumpRegime #woke #GenderIdeology #DEI #science
"The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
'Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.'
A sneaky rule change has the potential to blow up scientific research in the United States. But there’s still time to fight it.
On May 29th, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a 412-page proposal to revise federal financial assistance. The language is a combination of distinctly Trumpian attacks on 'woke' policies and boring governmentese designed to make your eyes glaze over as quickly as possible. But under phrases like 'providing further clarification on the regulatory status of the OMB requirements' is something darker — a threat to scientific research in this country, the livelihoods of thousands of scientists, and the lives of millions of vulnerable people.
If this rule change goes forward, science in the US 'will stop,' says Colette Delawalla, the founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. 'It won’t exist anymore.'
But OMB must look at — and address — all substantive public comments, and the rule change remains open for comments until July 13th. Another route also has potential. If Congress submits an objection, it’s possible the rule change would not go forward.The rule change would require political oversight of more than $1 trillion of federal grants across 42 different agencies. Federal grants are what pay for most of the scientific research, and the researchers, at universities across the country, from research into new vaccines to studies on natural hazards. If the rule passes, political appointees could look over and veto any grant, for any reason, at any time. Scientists could not collaborate with colleagues in many other countries. They could not go to conferences without preapproval, and would be prevented from using their research money to publish their work so the public could access it. All federal grants must align with 'the President’s policy priorities,' and all mentions of 'DEI' (diversity, equity, and inclusion) or 'gender ideology' are immediately off the table. People applying for research funding who can’t fulfill these demands, the rule change says, are welcome to get funding elsewhere. If you don’t like it, the document implies, leave.
(. . .)
The rule change document is not shy about the reasons. It states that 'in 2021 Federal agencies became increasingly focused on using their award programs to serve a ‘woke’ policy agenda.' The new level of review will ensure that grants 'advance the President’s policy priorities,' providing muscle to President Trump’s Executive Order 14332, and echoes the 'Gold Standard Science' touted in Executive Order 14303.
'Rolling out the, ‘Oh, we’re going to have a gold standard of peer review, all science is going to have to meet this standard, which is not defined,’ ignores the fact that that standard already exists and is clearly well defined,' Gill says.In keeping with the administration’s weird fixation on 'DEI' and trans people, part of that 'Gold Standard' is making sure that agencies explicitly do not fund diversity initiatives, that everyone accepts 'the biological reality of sex or the sex binary in humans,' and that no federal grant promotes 'the so-called ‘transition’ of a child under 19 years of age from one sex to another.' That means no research grants for health equity for people of color or LGBTQIA+. Many of those grants, including clinical trials, have already been cancelled. Why use a dog whistle when you can simply scream?"
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#TrumpRegime #woke #GenderIdeology #DEI #science
"The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
'Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.'
A sneaky rule change has the potential to blow up scientific research in the United States. But there’s still time to fight it.
On May 29th, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a 412-page proposal to revise federal financial assistance. The language is a combination of distinctly Trumpian attacks on 'woke' policies and boring governmentese designed to make your eyes glaze over as quickly as possible. But under phrases like 'providing further clarification on the regulatory status of the OMB requirements' is something darker — a threat to scientific research in this country, the livelihoods of thousands of scientists, and the lives of millions of vulnerable people.
If this rule change goes forward, science in the US 'will stop,' says Colette Delawalla, the founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. 'It won’t exist anymore.'
But OMB must look at — and address — all substantive public comments, and the rule change remains open for comments until July 13th. Another route also has potential. If Congress submits an objection, it’s possible the rule change would not go forward.The rule change would require political oversight of more than $1 trillion of federal grants across 42 different agencies. Federal grants are what pay for most of the scientific research, and the researchers, at universities across the country, from research into new vaccines to studies on natural hazards. If the rule passes, political appointees could look over and veto any grant, for any reason, at any time. Scientists could not collaborate with colleagues in many other countries. They could not go to conferences without preapproval, and would be prevented from using their research money to publish their work so the public could access it. All federal grants must align with 'the President’s policy priorities,' and all mentions of 'DEI' (diversity, equity, and inclusion) or 'gender ideology' are immediately off the table. People applying for research funding who can’t fulfill these demands, the rule change says, are welcome to get funding elsewhere. If you don’t like it, the document implies, leave.
(. . .)
The rule change document is not shy about the reasons. It states that 'in 2021 Federal agencies became increasingly focused on using their award programs to serve a ‘woke’ policy agenda.' The new level of review will ensure that grants 'advance the President’s policy priorities,' providing muscle to President Trump’s Executive Order 14332, and echoes the 'Gold Standard Science' touted in Executive Order 14303.
'Rolling out the, ‘Oh, we’re going to have a gold standard of peer review, all science is going to have to meet this standard, which is not defined,’ ignores the fact that that standard already exists and is clearly well defined,' Gill says.In keeping with the administration’s weird fixation on 'DEI' and trans people, part of that 'Gold Standard' is making sure that agencies explicitly do not fund diversity initiatives, that everyone accepts 'the biological reality of sex or the sex binary in humans,' and that no federal grant promotes 'the so-called ‘transition’ of a child under 19 years of age from one sex to another.' That means no research grants for health equity for people of color or LGBTQIA+. Many of those grants, including clinical trials, have already been cancelled. Why use a dog whistle when you can simply scream?"
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Brazilian Couple Sentenced to 50 Days in Jail for Homeschooling Without Gender Ideology
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Czech Government Decides Not To Ratify Istanbul Convention
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Laverne Cox: I've lost 90 percent of my income since Trump crushed DEI
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/people/laverne-cox-dei-income-trump
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Laverne Cox: I've lost 90 percent of my income since Trump crushed DEI
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/people/laverne-cox-dei-income-trump
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Meloni’s Italy Pushes Back against Gender Ideology with New Education Reform https://www.byteseu.com/2083120/ #CJEU #conservative #DemocraticParty #EducationalReform #EuropeanCommission #FamilyPolicy #GenderIdentity #GenderIdeology #GenderPropaganda #GiorgiaMeloni #Hungary #Italy #LGBTQ+ #ParentalOversight #progressive #SexEducation #ViktorOrban
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Meloni’s Italy Pushes Back against Gender Ideology with New Education Reform
Italy has approved an education reform designed to strengthen parental control over what children are taught about sexualit…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #CJEU #conservative #DemocraticParty #educationalreform #EuropeanCommission #familypolicy #genderidentity #genderideology #genderpropaganda #GiorgiaMeloni #Hungary #LGBTQ+ #parentaloversight #progressive #sexeducation #ViktorOrban
https://www.europesays.com/italy/22582/ -
https://www.europesays.com/people/102925/ Meloni’s Italy Pushes Back against Gender Ideology with New Education Reform #CJEU #conservative #DemocraticParty #EducationalReform #EuropeanCommission #FamilyPolicy #GenderIdentity #GenderIdeology #GenderPropaganda #GiorgiaMeloni #Hungary #Italy #lgbtq #ParentalOversight #progressive #SexEducation #ViktorOrbán
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Hungarian YouTube Channel under Woke Fire after Gender-Critical Interview https://www.byteseu.com/1992701/ #activist #backlash #Censorship #feminist #GenderIdentity #GenderIdeology #HateSpeech #Hungary #HungaryNews #IdeologicalConformity #IsabellaCêpa #Partizán #progressive #TERF #transgender #Zsófilter
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Study: ‘Gender Treatment’ Does Not Help Mental Health
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Iceland Becomes Cautionary Tale of How Gender Ideology Captures Society
A recent opinion piece published by the British outlet The Telegraph presents Iceland, long regarded as a global…
#Iceland #IS #Europe #Europa #EU #GenderAutonomyAct #Genderideology #hatespeech #iceland #ideologicalindoctrination #institutionalcapture #island #legalsystem #lgbt #Model #Progressive #SocialEngineering #transgender #youthgendertransition
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Alleged shooter 'in a dress' behind Canadian school massacre was trans-identifying man
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Alleged shooter 'in a dress' behind Canadian school massacre was trans-identifying man
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Freedom of Speech or plain old CENSORSHIP? How do these guys still have the nerve to preach Europeans about freedom of speech? This is State-led TOTAL SURVEILLANCE that has absolutely nothing to do with freedom.
"Since last March, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using AI tools from Palantir to screen and audit grants, grant applications, and job descriptions for noncompliance with President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting “gender ideology” and anything related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), according to a recently published inventory of all use cases HHS had for AI in 2025.
Neither Palantir nor HHS has publicly announced that the company’s software was being used for these purposes. During the first year of Trump’s second term, Palantir earned more than $35 million in payments and obligations from HHS alone. None of the descriptions for these transactions mention this work targeting DEI or “gender ideology.”
The audits have been taking place within HHS’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF), which funds family and child welfare and oversees the foster and adoption systems. Palantir is the sole contractor charged with making a list of “position descriptions that may need to be adjusted for alignment with recent executive orders.”
In addition to Palantir, the startup Credal AI—which was founded by two Palantir alumni—helped ACF audit “existing grants and new grant applications.” The “AI-based” grant review process, the inventory says, “reviews application submission files and generates initial flags and priorities for discussion.” All relevant information is then routed to the ACF Program Office for final review."#USA #Trump #Surveillance #Palantir #ChildWelfare #DEI #GenderIdeology
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Freedom of Speech or plain old CENSORSHIP? How do these guys still have the nerve to preach Europeans about freedom of speech? This is State-led TOTAL SURVEILLANCE that has absolutely nothing to do with freedom.
"Since last March, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using AI tools from Palantir to screen and audit grants, grant applications, and job descriptions for noncompliance with President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting “gender ideology” and anything related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), according to a recently published inventory of all use cases HHS had for AI in 2025.
Neither Palantir nor HHS has publicly announced that the company’s software was being used for these purposes. During the first year of Trump’s second term, Palantir earned more than $35 million in payments and obligations from HHS alone. None of the descriptions for these transactions mention this work targeting DEI or “gender ideology.”
The audits have been taking place within HHS’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF), which funds family and child welfare and oversees the foster and adoption systems. Palantir is the sole contractor charged with making a list of “position descriptions that may need to be adjusted for alignment with recent executive orders.”
In addition to Palantir, the startup Credal AI—which was founded by two Palantir alumni—helped ACF audit “existing grants and new grant applications.” The “AI-based” grant review process, the inventory says, “reviews application submission files and generates initial flags and priorities for discussion.” All relevant information is then routed to the ACF Program Office for final review."#USA #Trump #Surveillance #Palantir #ChildWelfare #DEI #GenderIdeology
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Freedom of Speech or plain old CENSORSHIP? How do these guys still have the nerve to preach Europeans about freedom of speech? This is State-led TOTAL SURVEILLANCE that has absolutely nothing to do with freedom.
"Since last March, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using AI tools from Palantir to screen and audit grants, grant applications, and job descriptions for noncompliance with President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting “gender ideology” and anything related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), according to a recently published inventory of all use cases HHS had for AI in 2025.
Neither Palantir nor HHS has publicly announced that the company’s software was being used for these purposes. During the first year of Trump’s second term, Palantir earned more than $35 million in payments and obligations from HHS alone. None of the descriptions for these transactions mention this work targeting DEI or “gender ideology.”
The audits have been taking place within HHS’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF), which funds family and child welfare and oversees the foster and adoption systems. Palantir is the sole contractor charged with making a list of “position descriptions that may need to be adjusted for alignment with recent executive orders.”
In addition to Palantir, the startup Credal AI—which was founded by two Palantir alumni—helped ACF audit “existing grants and new grant applications.” The “AI-based” grant review process, the inventory says, “reviews application submission files and generates initial flags and priorities for discussion.” All relevant information is then routed to the ACF Program Office for final review."#USA #Trump #Surveillance #Palantir #ChildWelfare #DEI #GenderIdeology
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Freedom of Speech or plain old CENSORSHIP? How do these guys still have the nerve to preach Europeans about freedom of speech? This is State-led TOTAL SURVEILLANCE that has absolutely nothing to do with freedom.
"Since last March, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using AI tools from Palantir to screen and audit grants, grant applications, and job descriptions for noncompliance with President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting “gender ideology” and anything related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), according to a recently published inventory of all use cases HHS had for AI in 2025.
Neither Palantir nor HHS has publicly announced that the company’s software was being used for these purposes. During the first year of Trump’s second term, Palantir earned more than $35 million in payments and obligations from HHS alone. None of the descriptions for these transactions mention this work targeting DEI or “gender ideology.”
The audits have been taking place within HHS’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF), which funds family and child welfare and oversees the foster and adoption systems. Palantir is the sole contractor charged with making a list of “position descriptions that may need to be adjusted for alignment with recent executive orders.”
In addition to Palantir, the startup Credal AI—which was founded by two Palantir alumni—helped ACF audit “existing grants and new grant applications.” The “AI-based” grant review process, the inventory says, “reviews application submission files and generates initial flags and priorities for discussion.” All relevant information is then routed to the ACF Program Office for final review."#USA #Trump #Surveillance #Palantir #ChildWelfare #DEI #GenderIdeology
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Freedom of Speech or plain old CENSORSHIP? How do these guys still have the nerve to preach Europeans about freedom of speech? This is State-led TOTAL SURVEILLANCE that has absolutely nothing to do with freedom.
"Since last March, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using AI tools from Palantir to screen and audit grants, grant applications, and job descriptions for noncompliance with President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting “gender ideology” and anything related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), according to a recently published inventory of all use cases HHS had for AI in 2025.
Neither Palantir nor HHS has publicly announced that the company’s software was being used for these purposes. During the first year of Trump’s second term, Palantir earned more than $35 million in payments and obligations from HHS alone. None of the descriptions for these transactions mention this work targeting DEI or “gender ideology.”
The audits have been taking place within HHS’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF), which funds family and child welfare and oversees the foster and adoption systems. Palantir is the sole contractor charged with making a list of “position descriptions that may need to be adjusted for alignment with recent executive orders.”
In addition to Palantir, the startup Credal AI—which was founded by two Palantir alumni—helped ACF audit “existing grants and new grant applications.” The “AI-based” grant review process, the inventory says, “reviews application submission files and generates initial flags and priorities for discussion.” All relevant information is then routed to the ACF Program Office for final review."#USA #Trump #Surveillance #Palantir #ChildWelfare #DEI #GenderIdeology
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/323618/ Linehan: Gender ideology and free speech can’t co-exist #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FreeSpeech #GenderIdeology #GrahamLinehan #Headlines #LatestNews #LatestNews #LorcanPrice #MainNews #MainNews #News #PäiviRäsänen #TopStories #TopStories #USCongressionalCommittee #World #WorldNews #WorldNews
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Win for kids! Major surgeon group reverses course, comes out against child genital mutilation
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Win for kids! Major surgeon group reverses course, comes out against child genital mutilation
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Lessons from a trans man on how to tell our stories
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/how-to-tell-transgender-stories
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Lessons from a trans man on how to tell our stories
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/how-to-tell-transgender-stories
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Lessons from a trans man on how to tell our stories
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/how-to-tell-transgender-stories
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Lessons from a trans man on how to tell our stories
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/how-to-tell-transgender-stories
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Lessons from a trans man on how to tell our stories
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/how-to-tell-transgender-stories
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Berlin Youth Art School Offers Drag Courses
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📚🚫 Oh, Texas A&M, you've really outdone yourselves this time! Banning Plato because of "gender ideology"—what's next, Aristotle for his sandals? 👡🔍 In a world where ancient philosophy meets modern absurdity, Texas A&M has taken the trophy for the most creative way to misinterpret history. 🏆
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/ #TexasAM #BanOnPlato #GenderIdeology #PhilosophyAbsurdity #ModernMisinterpretation #HackerNews #ngated -
📚🚫 Oh, Texas A&M, you've really outdone yourselves this time! Banning Plato because of "gender ideology"—what's next, Aristotle for his sandals? 👡🔍 In a world where ancient philosophy meets modern absurdity, Texas A&M has taken the trophy for the most creative way to misinterpret history. 🏆
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/ #TexasAM #BanOnPlato #GenderIdeology #PhilosophyAbsurdity #ModernMisinterpretation #HackerNews #ngated -
📚🚫 Oh, Texas A&M, you've really outdone yourselves this time! Banning Plato because of "gender ideology"—what's next, Aristotle for his sandals? 👡🔍 In a world where ancient philosophy meets modern absurdity, Texas A&M has taken the trophy for the most creative way to misinterpret history. 🏆
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/ #TexasAM #BanOnPlato #GenderIdeology #PhilosophyAbsurdity #ModernMisinterpretation #HackerNews #ngated -
📚🚫 Oh, Texas A&M, you've really outdone yourselves this time! Banning Plato because of "gender ideology"—what's next, Aristotle for his sandals? 👡🔍 In a world where ancient philosophy meets modern absurdity, Texas A&M has taken the trophy for the most creative way to misinterpret history. 🏆
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/ #TexasAM #BanOnPlato #GenderIdeology #PhilosophyAbsurdity #ModernMisinterpretation #HackerNews #ngated -
Texas A&M university is banning Plato, citing his "gender ideology"
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/
#HackerNews #TexasAM #BanningPlato #GenderIdeology #EducationNews #Controversy
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Texas A&M university is banning Plato, citing his "gender ideology"
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/
#HackerNews #TexasAM #BanningPlato #GenderIdeology #EducationNews #Controversy
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Texas A&M university is banning Plato, citing his "gender ideology"
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/
#HackerNews #TexasAM #BanningPlato #GenderIdeology #EducationNews #Controversy
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Texas A&M university is banning Plato, citing his "gender ideology"
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/
#HackerNews #TexasAM #BanningPlato #GenderIdeology #EducationNews #Controversy
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Texas A&M university is banning Plato, citing his "gender ideology"
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/
#HackerNews #TexasAM #BanningPlato #GenderIdeology #EducationNews #Controversy
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Will the Supreme Court save women’s sports?
This is our moment. God has placed us here for such a time as this. Pray for this case. #SupremeCourt #trans #womenssports #genderideology
Source: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/will-the-supreme-court-save-womens-sports.html
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Will the Supreme Court save women’s sports?
This is our moment. God has placed us here for such a time as this. Pray for this case. #SupremeCourt #trans #womenssports #genderideology
Source: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/will-the-supreme-court-save-womens-sports.html
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Will the Supreme Court save women’s sports?
This is our moment. God has placed us here for such a time as this. Pray for this case. #SupremeCourt #trans #womenssports #genderideology
Source: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/will-the-supreme-court-save-womens-sports.html
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#Plato #GenderIdeology #Texas #AI #philosophy
"Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his 'gender ideology.'
Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed gender identity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology'' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the 'Myth of Androgyne,' in which Aristophanes describes three genders.
(. . .)
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities,' feminist and queer film, or race and ethnicity as a subject…full stop
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/
-
#Plato #GenderIdeology #Texas #AI #philosophy
"Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his 'gender ideology.'
Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed gender identity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology'' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the 'Myth of Androgyne,' in which Aristophanes describes three genders.
(. . .)
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities,' feminist and queer film, or race and ethnicity as a subject…full stop
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/
-
#Plato #GenderIdeology #Texas #AI #philosophy
"Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his 'gender ideology.'
Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed gender identity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology'' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the 'Myth of Androgyne,' in which Aristophanes describes three genders.
(. . .)
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities,' feminist and queer film, or race and ethnicity as a subject…full stop
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/
-
#Plato #GenderIdeology #Texas #AI #philosophy
"Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his 'gender ideology.'
Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed gender identity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology'' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the 'Myth of Androgyne,' in which Aristophanes describes three genders.
(. . .)
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities,' feminist and queer film, or race and ethnicity as a subject…full stop
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/
-
Texas A&M banned these Plato readings from my class. Here’s what everyone should know about his teachings. – MS NOW
Opinion
Texas A&M told me not to teach these Plato readings. That’s not how you make universities great again.
The Greek philosopher explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial. So should universities.
“Plato explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial.” Ben King / MS NOW; Getty ImagesBy Martin Peterson, Jan. 10, 2026, 6:00 AM EST
As a professor of philosophy and ethics, I am more accustomed to reading the news than being a part of it. But many media outlets have reported this week on a directive I was given to excise Plato lessons from a course syllabus. I offer this to provide insight into my experiences at Texas A&M both recently and more broadly.
I have been to Athens many times, and on every visit I make a point of stopping by the site of Plato’s Academy, the world’s first university, founded around 387 BCE. Whereas other schools at the time primarily trained students in rhetoric and the art of winning debates, Plato explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial. It is precisely this attitude toward teaching and research that has made American universities the best in the world. We do not Make Universities Great Again by censoring the classics.
We do not Make Universities Great Again by censoring the classics.
The ban on teaching Plato’s “Symposium” at Texas A&M is, in a sense, understandable. If one accepts the university rule, adopted in November, that bans the teaching of “race and gender ideology,” Plato joins a long list of prominent thinkers whose ideas might be deemed corrupting to youth and therefore subject to censorship.
In the “Symposium,” Plato describes homosexuality as fully natural and suggests that there are more than two genders: “you should learn the nature of humanity … in times past our nature was not the same as it is now, but otherwise. For in the first place there were three kinds of human being and not two as nowadays, male and female. No, there was also a third kind, a combination of both genders.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
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Texas A&M banned these Plato readings from my class. Here’s what everyone should know about his teachings. – MS NOW
Opinion
Texas A&M told me not to teach these Plato readings. That’s not how you make universities great again.
The Greek philosopher explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial. So should universities.
“Plato explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial.” Ben King / MS NOW; Getty ImagesBy Martin Peterson, Jan. 10, 2026, 6:00 AM EST
As a professor of philosophy and ethics, I am more accustomed to reading the news than being a part of it. But many media outlets have reported this week on a directive I was given to excise Plato lessons from a course syllabus. I offer this to provide insight into my experiences at Texas A&M both recently and more broadly.
I have been to Athens many times, and on every visit I make a point of stopping by the site of Plato’s Academy, the world’s first university, founded around 387 BCE. Whereas other schools at the time primarily trained students in rhetoric and the art of winning debates, Plato explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial. It is precisely this attitude toward teaching and research that has made American universities the best in the world. We do not Make Universities Great Again by censoring the classics.
We do not Make Universities Great Again by censoring the classics.
The ban on teaching Plato’s “Symposium” at Texas A&M is, in a sense, understandable. If one accepts the university rule, adopted in November, that bans the teaching of “race and gender ideology,” Plato joins a long list of prominent thinkers whose ideas might be deemed corrupting to youth and therefore subject to censorship.
In the “Symposium,” Plato describes homosexuality as fully natural and suggests that there are more than two genders: “you should learn the nature of humanity … in times past our nature was not the same as it is now, but otherwise. For in the first place there were three kinds of human being and not two as nowadays, male and female. No, there was also a third kind, a combination of both genders.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Texas A&M banned these Plato readings from my class. Here’s what everyone should know about his teachings.
Tags: Bans Teaching Plato, Gender Ideology, Higher Education, Humanity, Martin Peterson, MS NOW, MSNBC, Philosophy, Plato, Professor, Race Ideology, Symposium, Teaching, Texas, Texas A&M University, Western Education
#BansTeachingPlato #GenderIdeology #HigherEducation #Humanity #MartinPeterson #MSNOW #MSNBC #Philosophy #Plato #Professor #RaceIdeology #Symposium #Teaching #Texas #TexasAMUniversity #WesternEducation -
Texas A&M banned these Plato readings from my class. Here’s what everyone should know about his teachings. – MS NOW
Opinion
Texas A&M told me not to teach these Plato readings. That’s not how you make universities great again.
The Greek philosopher explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial. So should universities.
“Plato explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial.” Ben King / MS NOW; Getty ImagesBy Martin Peterson, Jan. 10, 2026, 6:00 AM EST
As a professor of philosophy and ethics, I am more accustomed to reading the news than being a part of it. But many media outlets have reported this week on a directive I was given to excise Plato lessons from a course syllabus. I offer this to provide insight into my experiences at Texas A&M both recently and more broadly.
I have been to Athens many times, and on every visit I make a point of stopping by the site of Plato’s Academy, the world’s first university, founded around 387 BCE. Whereas other schools at the time primarily trained students in rhetoric and the art of winning debates, Plato explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial. It is precisely this attitude toward teaching and research that has made American universities the best in the world. We do not Make Universities Great Again by censoring the classics.
We do not Make Universities Great Again by censoring the classics.
The ban on teaching Plato’s “Symposium” at Texas A&M is, in a sense, understandable. If one accepts the university rule, adopted in November, that bans the teaching of “race and gender ideology,” Plato joins a long list of prominent thinkers whose ideas might be deemed corrupting to youth and therefore subject to censorship.
In the “Symposium,” Plato describes homosexuality as fully natural and suggests that there are more than two genders: “you should learn the nature of humanity … in times past our nature was not the same as it is now, but otherwise. For in the first place there were three kinds of human being and not two as nowadays, male and female. No, there was also a third kind, a combination of both genders.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Texas A&M banned these Plato readings from my class. Here’s what everyone should know about his teachings.
Tags: Bans Teaching Plato, Gender Ideology, Higher Education, Humanity, Martin Peterson, MS NOW, MSNBC, Philosophy, Plato, Professor, Race Ideology, Symposium, Teaching, Texas, Texas A&M University, Western Education
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Texas A&M banned these Plato readings from my class. Here’s what everyone should know about his teachings. – MS NOW
Opinion
Texas A&M told me not to teach these Plato readings. That’s not how you make universities great again.
The Greek philosopher explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial. So should universities.
“Plato explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial.” Ben King / MS NOW; Getty ImagesBy Martin Peterson, Jan. 10, 2026, 6:00 AM EST
As a professor of philosophy and ethics, I am more accustomed to reading the news than being a part of it. But many media outlets have reported this week on a directive I was given to excise Plato lessons from a course syllabus. I offer this to provide insight into my experiences at Texas A&M both recently and more broadly.
I have been to Athens many times, and on every visit I make a point of stopping by the site of Plato’s Academy, the world’s first university, founded around 387 BCE. Whereas other schools at the time primarily trained students in rhetoric and the art of winning debates, Plato explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial. It is precisely this attitude toward teaching and research that has made American universities the best in the world. We do not Make Universities Great Again by censoring the classics.
We do not Make Universities Great Again by censoring the classics.
The ban on teaching Plato’s “Symposium” at Texas A&M is, in a sense, understandable. If one accepts the university rule, adopted in November, that bans the teaching of “race and gender ideology,” Plato joins a long list of prominent thinkers whose ideas might be deemed corrupting to youth and therefore subject to censorship.
In the “Symposium,” Plato describes homosexuality as fully natural and suggests that there are more than two genders: “you should learn the nature of humanity … in times past our nature was not the same as it is now, but otherwise. For in the first place there were three kinds of human being and not two as nowadays, male and female. No, there was also a third kind, a combination of both genders.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Texas A&M banned these Plato readings from my class. Here’s what everyone should know about his teachings.
#BansTeachingPlato #GenderIdeology #HigherEducation #Humanity #MartinPeterson #MSNOW #MSNBC #Philosophy #Plato #Professor #RaceIdeology #Symposium #Teaching #Texas #TexasAMUniversity #WesternEducation -
Texas A&M banned these Plato readings from my class. Here’s what everyone should know about his teachings. – MS NOW
Opinion
Texas A&M told me not to teach these Plato readings. That’s not how you make universities great again.
The Greek philosopher explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial. So should universities.
“Plato explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial.” Ben King / MS NOW; Getty ImagesBy Martin Peterson, Jan. 10, 2026, 6:00 AM EST
As a professor of philosophy and ethics, I am more accustomed to reading the news than being a part of it. But many media outlets have reported this week on a directive I was given to excise Plato lessons from a course syllabus. I offer this to provide insight into my experiences at Texas A&M both recently and more broadly.
I have been to Athens many times, and on every visit I make a point of stopping by the site of Plato’s Academy, the world’s first university, founded around 387 BCE. Whereas other schools at the time primarily trained students in rhetoric and the art of winning debates, Plato explicitly urged his students to seek the truth — even when it was uncomfortable or controversial. It is precisely this attitude toward teaching and research that has made American universities the best in the world. We do not Make Universities Great Again by censoring the classics.
We do not Make Universities Great Again by censoring the classics.
The ban on teaching Plato’s “Symposium” at Texas A&M is, in a sense, understandable. If one accepts the university rule, adopted in November, that bans the teaching of “race and gender ideology,” Plato joins a long list of prominent thinkers whose ideas might be deemed corrupting to youth and therefore subject to censorship.
In the “Symposium,” Plato describes homosexuality as fully natural and suggests that there are more than two genders: “you should learn the nature of humanity … in times past our nature was not the same as it is now, but otherwise. For in the first place there were three kinds of human being and not two as nowadays, male and female. No, there was also a third kind, a combination of both genders.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Texas A&M banned these Plato readings from my class. Here’s what everyone should know about his teachings.
#BansTeachingPlato #GenderIdeology #HigherEducation #Humanity #MartinPeterson #MSNOW #MSNBC #Philosophy #Plato #Professor #RaceIdeology #Symposium #Teaching #Texas #TexasAMUniversity #WesternEducation -
Texas A&M is banning #Plato, citing his “#GenderIdeology.”
Brittany Allen January 12, 2026
"Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed #GenderIdentity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology' ' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the the 'Myth of #Androgyne,' in which #Aristophanes describes three genders.
Most musical theatre nerds will also catch the reference—the same myth was called up in #JohnCameronMitchell and #StephenTrask’s epic ballad, 'The Origin of Love,”'from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern #gay, #lesbian or #transgender identities,' #feminist and #queer film, or #race and #ethnicity as a subject…fullstop.
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
Source:
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/#USPol #Censorship #AncientHistory #Philosophy #Philosopher #GBLTQ #History #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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Texas A&M is banning #Plato, citing his “#GenderIdeology.”
Brittany Allen January 12, 2026
"Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed #GenderIdentity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology' ' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the the 'Myth of #Androgyne,' in which #Aristophanes describes three genders.
Most musical theatre nerds will also catch the reference—the same myth was called up in #JohnCameronMitchell and #StephenTrask’s epic ballad, 'The Origin of Love,”'from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern #gay, #lesbian or #transgender identities,' #feminist and #queer film, or #race and #ethnicity as a subject…fullstop.
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
Source:
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/#USPol #Censorship #AncientHistory #Philosophy #Philosopher #GBLTQ #History #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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Texas A&M is banning #Plato, citing his “#GenderIdeology.”
Brittany Allen January 12, 2026
"Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed #GenderIdentity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology' ' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the the 'Myth of #Androgyne,' in which #Aristophanes describes three genders.
Most musical theatre nerds will also catch the reference—the same myth was called up in #JohnCameronMitchell and #StephenTrask’s epic ballad, 'The Origin of Love,”'from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern #gay, #lesbian or #transgender identities,' #feminist and #queer film, or #race and #ethnicity as a subject…fullstop.
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
Source:
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/#USPol #Censorship #AncientHistory #Philosophy #Philosopher #GBLTQ #History #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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Texas A&M is banning #Plato, citing his “#GenderIdeology.”
Brittany Allen January 12, 2026
"Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed #GenderIdentity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology' ' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the the 'Myth of #Androgyne,' in which #Aristophanes describes three genders.
Most musical theatre nerds will also catch the reference—the same myth was called up in #JohnCameronMitchell and #StephenTrask’s epic ballad, 'The Origin of Love,”'from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern #gay, #lesbian or #transgender identities,' #feminist and #queer film, or #race and #ethnicity as a subject…fullstop.
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
Source:
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/#USPol #Censorship #AncientHistory #Philosophy #Philosopher #GBLTQ #History #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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Texas A&M is banning #Plato, citing his “#GenderIdeology.”
Brittany Allen January 12, 2026
"Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid.
As The Texas Tribune has reported, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that 'a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender' is set to take effect today.
The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing 'problematic' content. But the foes were loosely framed.
Under the new restrictions, gender ideology is defined as 'a concept of self-assessed #GenderIdentity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.' Race ideology entails 'attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity' or anything that 'promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.'
As a European history professor pointed out at the time, this wording could effectively prohibit a professor from teaching about the Holocaust.
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
The hammer came down over the weekend for assorted religion, film, ethnic studies, sociology, communications, and literature classes. And in a truly-beyond-parody move, a philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to 'either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology' ' from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Most philosophy nerds will recognize the 'gender ideology' readings in question, which are lifted from the Symposium. The university apparently quibbled with Plato’s reference the the 'Myth of #Androgyne,' in which #Aristophanes describes three genders.
Most musical theatre nerds will also catch the reference—the same myth was called up in #JohnCameronMitchell and #StephenTrask’s epic ballad, 'The Origin of Love,”'from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Even as we note the rise of smoothbrain rhetoric sea to sea, the fact that Plato has been deemed inappropriate for an Introduction to Philosophy course is a surreal escalation of terms.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to 'literature with major plot lines that concern #gay, #lesbian or #transgender identities,' #feminist and #queer film, or #race and #ethnicity as a subject…fullstop.
As Abby Monteil at them reports, these curricular restrictions have all trickled down from the Trump administration, which continues to dangle federal funding as a carrot for universities compliant with its agenda. We simply hate to see it.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies."
Source:
https://lithub.com/texas-am-is-banning-plato-citing-his-gender-ideology/#USPol #Censorship #AncientHistory #Philosophy #Philosopher #GBLTQ #History #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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A philosophy professor at Texas A&M University has been told to change his syllabus to omit some teachings from Plato's "Symposium" in order to comply with guidance banning advocacy for “race and gender ideology.” Martin Peterson's course on contemporary moral issues covers concepts like Aristophanes' myth of the the split human and Diotima's Ladder of Love. Here's Spectrum Local News's coverage, plus a story from Daily Nous that includes the email exchange where Professor Peterson is told either to remove the modules and readings, or be assigned to a different course.
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