{"id":137386,"date":"2023-11-15T00:12:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T05:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=137386"},"modified":"2023-11-17T09:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:01:38","slug":"we-are-butchering-children-conference-proposes-alternative-to-gender-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/we-are-butchering-children-conference-proposes-alternative-to-gender-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We are butchering children’: Academics unite against ‘medical transitioning’ of kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘The premise of the current \u2018gender-affirming\u2019 model of care is unsound and leads to serious harm,’ conference participant and biologist said<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Academics, clinicians, writers, and others critical of contemporary gender ideology gathered in Denver at a conference hosted by an international group opposing \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d for children.<\/p>\n

Genspect launched its \u201cBigger Picture Conference\u201d Nov. 4-5 to advance its mission and build community. The group formed in 2021 \u201cas a coalition of parent and professional groups, united in concern about the inappropriate social and medical transitioning of young people questioning their gender,\u201d according to its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Conference organizers invited 20 speakers on topics ranging from psychology, education reform, detransition accounts, and gender identity.<\/p>\n

\"\"Among that lineup was evolutionary biologist Heather Heying, formerly a professor at Evergreen State College. She agreed to speak at the conference \u201centhusiastically and without hesitation\u201d because \u201cwe are butchering children and there is no excuse,\u201d she told The College Fix<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Heying went to the conference to \u201cprovide scientific findings and language for parents and young people\u2026 to gain an understanding of biology and human complexity.\u201d<\/p>\n

“We should understand reality (sex is binary, differences between the sexes are real), and not fight that reality, but also know what we can actually change a lot about ourselves that seems unchangeable,” she said.<\/p>\n

Heying and her husband, fellow former Evergreen State College Professor Bret Weinstein, co-host<\/a> the popular \u201cDarkHorse\u201d podcast exploring life from an evolutionary perspective and criticizing social justice taboos.<\/p>\n

In 2017, baseball-bat wielding protesters at Evergreen State surrounded and threatened Professor Weinstein, who is white, for refusing to leave campus for a day of sensitivity trainings alongside his white peers during the school\u2019s annual \u201cDay of Absence,” The Fix<\/em> reported<\/a> at the time. Both Weinstein and Heying resigned shortly after.<\/p>\n