Monday, June 6, 2022

Science Teachers Adopt more Woke Terms

Evolutionary scientists used to complain a lot about the possibility that some teacher somewhere might suggest intelligent design as an alternative hypothesis about the origins. They won that battle, and such ideas have been purged.

Jonathan Turley writes:

In academia, there have been growing controversies over language guides and usages, including the use of pronouns that some object to as matters of religion or grammar. Now the largest association of science teachers in the world has issued a guide for “anti-oppression” terminology for science teachers. In the guide, titled “Gender-Inclusive Biology: A framework in action,” the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has called for “gender-inclusive biology,” which includes the abandonment of terms like “parent,” “men,” “women,” “mother,” and “father.”

Under the guide, mothers are now referred to as “persons with ovaries” in reference to reproduction cycles while fathers are now “persons with testes.” Additionally, the association declares the move of various states toward “Sex verification in sports” as an example of oppression. ...

Under the new guidelines, teachers are encouraged to drop terms like “male” in favor of “XY individuals.”

The NSTA suggests that this can be a fun exercise like having students come up with an entirely new name for the word “parents,” such as “gene-givers” or “biological life transmitters.”

I did not verify this, so maybe it is a joke. Regardless, this is where we are headed.

I refuse to believe that anyone is really offended by terms like "mother". This is just a step in a Leftist battle.

2 comments:

  1. Yes, yes, let's talk about human biology... without the ability to even denote sexual reproduction accurately, for fear of offending a tiny precious few someones (with percentages all over the map under 1%) that who are mentally ill, highly prone to attempting suicide (41%) and apparently can't figure out the physical difference between a penis and a vagina. I can see it now:
    "gene giver A and gene giver B exchanged biological material to create proto gene giver C... which will not be considered a gene giver at all until one of the gene givers suddenly wishes to rediscover they are actually a female woman in order to terminate the child. Yeah. That will work.

    ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive,’
    Sir Walter Scott

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  2. Hating to pile on another comment, but I can't resist.
    How exactly does someone claim to be for women's rights when someone doesn't even know what a woman is? And conversely, how does one even know what a man is without knowing what a woman is?

    Being told what to think and say by the mentally ill is not going well in this country. Big shock.

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