An outdated concept

at to a man and another to a woman as “an outdated concept” that reinforced the “gender binary.” Mr Decaudin persuaded New York Democrats to rewrite the rule in October 2019. The amended rule requires each district to elect to the state committee two people who “do not identify as the same gender.”

Around that time, Mr Decaudin caused a public scandal when he appeared onstage in a tight red dress that emphasized the bulge of his erect male genitalia. He was a speaker at the event, where he discussed the resolution he authored to make the State Committee’s sex-parity rule “inclusive.” In response to backlash surrounding his protruding bulge, Mr Decaudin tweeted: “TERFs and SWERFs and truscum can suck my girld**k.”

And, in Canada – University Associate Chair Fired; Her Belief in Biological Sex Makes Students Feel “Unsafe”:

“The university has said it’s perfectly OK 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,” Kathleen Lowrey stated.

An associate professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta, Kathleen Lowrey began a three-year term in 2019 as associate chair of undergraduate programs for the department. On March 24, she received a letter from Lesley Cormack, dean of Arts at the time, informing Dr Lowrey that her appointment as associate chair would conclude July 1, 2020.

No reason for the dismissal was provided, other than an assertion that the professor was “not able to be as effective in this administrative role” and it was “not in the best interests of the students or the University for you to carry on”. 

The dismissal followed meetings with Lowrey, Cormack and the department chair, in which Lowrey had been told there had been informal complaints made to the dean of students and the university’s Office of Safe Disclosure and Human Rights. Because the complaints were informal and anonymous, Dr Lowrey has no other information on the nature of the claims, other than her views on feminism were making students feel unsafe.

As she notes:

If you’ve done something bad to students you’re supposed to have a hearing about it so you can answer what the charges are. If I’ve done something bad they should be able to say what it is. Or it is about my views? Which in that case that’s not so good because that’s really a violation of academic freedom.

Dr Lowrey says her views on feminism can be summarized as follows:

# men cannot get pregnant

# lesbians don’t have penises

# biological sex is real

A controversialist, clearly.