This is devastating. It looks like all 3 of my kids went to ‘strong’ universities. No wonder they are lost to me. 2 out if 3 estranged over this ideology. SAGE….I had never even heard of it. I’m so depressed
Thank you for doing this. I went to an open house at wheaton college in Ma last year and they were passing out pronoun pins 😳 needless to say that school came off. Why do we need to Announce our pronouns on a pin to display. Ithaca and bard in NY and several others for similar reasons. Sad. I’m sure they are great schools but impressionable teens are not in a good place to attend schools where this ideology/ gender ideology agenda is pushed.
This is very helpful! Just a small tweak, but Wake Forest University in NC (my Alma Mater) is not religiously affiliated. It started as a Baptist school, but is no longer religious.
As someone who attended classes at Portland State University (PSU) as a post-bac student from 2013-2019, I would like to supplement Genspect's assessment of PSU's stance and actions regarding transgender issues.
In an era when progressives demand that we celebrate diversity, progressive queerdom is rapidly going about erasing gay men, lesbians and bisexuals. In progressive circles, it's queer this and queer that all the time. To show they're with-it, the squares in mainstream media are queering everything that was formerly lavender. And at Portland State University's Queer Resource Center, gay, lesbian and bisexual students do not exist.
I hold a particular animus towards the woke variety of queer that prevails at my university's version of what is known on other campuses as the LGBTQ center. (I am a gay senior citizen taking break from a post-bac degree program at Portland State University "PSU".)
You see, Portland State University's Queer Resource Center (QRC) recognizes only two populations and constituencies: Queer and Trans. The words "gay" and "lesbian" are not to be found in the Queer Resource Center's mission statement. In fact, unless my repeated searches missed it, the word "gay" appears on the QRC's site only when citing unaffiliated outside organizations' use of the word.
As if that weren't bad enough, the QRC's politics are stridently woke:
"OUR PURPOSE The Queer Resource Center supports queer and trans students at Portland State University to achieve their educational goals through advocacy, community, and celebration. The Queer Resource Center prioritizes a racial justice framework to improve campus climate through education, policy change, and campus-wide organizing. "
"OUR VISION The Queer Resource Center strives to provide students with the support they need to persist to graduation through increasing equity and access for queer and trans students at Portland State University." https://www.pdx.edu/queer-resource-center/
It is expected that a good Portland State University queer will model the values of diversity, inclusion, equity and anti-racism. Its activities calendar is a festival of intersectional racial, ethnic and gender identity group culture.
If you're BIPOC and trans - or, better yet, both - well, the QRC is your home away from home. You’ll look in vain for a gay men’s board game night.
When I complained to the QRC about its erasure of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals, the reply as good as admitted that the queer hegemony was intentional. In any case, they added, everyone there was fine with it. If I didn't like it, why, they even provided a helpful link to the complaint form.
It is deplorable that PSU’s only official organization for what used to be known as sexual minorities does not recognize or accommodate the university's mainstream gay, lesbian and bisexual students. That the QRC has so thoroughly embraced the leftist ideology of wokeness is unconscionable. It's as if PSU's French club expected students to support the ideology of Marine Le Pen and organized its programming around it.
C'mon, gay men were reclassified as "oppressors" some time ago. I think it's because we were the ones who led and provided the foot soldiers for the fundraisers for AIDS relief, research and prevention, the rallies and marches for gay equality, and who had to bear all the risks of coming out of our closets. Boy, were we duped, to imagine we had something in common with transsexuals. They've turned out to be parasites as deadly as toxoplasmosis: there's no doubt the recent revival of the most vicious, superstitious libels against gay people is the entirely foreseeable backlash against the preposterous demands of the trans fetishists.
If you are approaching the universities and colleges- which offer exploratory therapy, the first line option for countries following the evidence? Which ones fully support "gender journeys", including detransition?
This is devastating. It looks like all 3 of my kids went to ‘strong’ universities. No wonder they are lost to me. 2 out if 3 estranged over this ideology. SAGE….I had never even heard of it. I’m so depressed
Thank you for doing this. I went to an open house at wheaton college in Ma last year and they were passing out pronoun pins 😳 needless to say that school came off. Why do we need to Announce our pronouns on a pin to display. Ithaca and bard in NY and several others for similar reasons. Sad. I’m sure they are great schools but impressionable teens are not in a good place to attend schools where this ideology/ gender ideology agenda is pushed.
What a good idea. Forewarned is fore-armed as the saying tells us.
Very discouraging information! I am relieved that I have no kids who are on their way to college, and I feel deep empathy for any parents who do.
This list, combined with FIRE'S rankings by free speech, is helpful. Thank you! Quick correction: Notre Dame College in OH closed last spring.
This is very helpful! Just a small tweak, but Wake Forest University in NC (my Alma Mater) is not religiously affiliated. It started as a Baptist school, but is no longer religious.
As someone who attended classes at Portland State University (PSU) as a post-bac student from 2013-2019, I would like to supplement Genspect's assessment of PSU's stance and actions regarding transgender issues.
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In an era when progressives demand that we celebrate diversity, progressive queerdom is rapidly going about erasing gay men, lesbians and bisexuals. In progressive circles, it's queer this and queer that all the time. To show they're with-it, the squares in mainstream media are queering everything that was formerly lavender. And at Portland State University's Queer Resource Center, gay, lesbian and bisexual students do not exist.
I hold a particular animus towards the woke variety of queer that prevails at my university's version of what is known on other campuses as the LGBTQ center. (I am a gay senior citizen taking break from a post-bac degree program at Portland State University "PSU".)
You see, Portland State University's Queer Resource Center (QRC) recognizes only two populations and constituencies: Queer and Trans. The words "gay" and "lesbian" are not to be found in the Queer Resource Center's mission statement. In fact, unless my repeated searches missed it, the word "gay" appears on the QRC's site only when citing unaffiliated outside organizations' use of the word.
As if that weren't bad enough, the QRC's politics are stridently woke:
"OUR PURPOSE The Queer Resource Center supports queer and trans students at Portland State University to achieve their educational goals through advocacy, community, and celebration. The Queer Resource Center prioritizes a racial justice framework to improve campus climate through education, policy change, and campus-wide organizing. "
"OUR VISION The Queer Resource Center strives to provide students with the support they need to persist to graduation through increasing equity and access for queer and trans students at Portland State University." https://www.pdx.edu/queer-resource-center/
It is expected that a good Portland State University queer will model the values of diversity, inclusion, equity and anti-racism. Its activities calendar is a festival of intersectional racial, ethnic and gender identity group culture.
If you're BIPOC and trans - or, better yet, both - well, the QRC is your home away from home. You’ll look in vain for a gay men’s board game night.
When I complained to the QRC about its erasure of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals, the reply as good as admitted that the queer hegemony was intentional. In any case, they added, everyone there was fine with it. If I didn't like it, why, they even provided a helpful link to the complaint form.
It is deplorable that PSU’s only official organization for what used to be known as sexual minorities does not recognize or accommodate the university's mainstream gay, lesbian and bisexual students. That the QRC has so thoroughly embraced the leftist ideology of wokeness is unconscionable. It's as if PSU's French club expected students to support the ideology of Marine Le Pen and organized its programming around it.
C'mon, gay men were reclassified as "oppressors" some time ago. I think it's because we were the ones who led and provided the foot soldiers for the fundraisers for AIDS relief, research and prevention, the rallies and marches for gay equality, and who had to bear all the risks of coming out of our closets. Boy, were we duped, to imagine we had something in common with transsexuals. They've turned out to be parasites as deadly as toxoplasmosis: there's no doubt the recent revival of the most vicious, superstitious libels against gay people is the entirely foreseeable backlash against the preposterous demands of the trans fetishists.
Thank you so much. I'm grateful.
If you are approaching the universities and colleges- which offer exploratory therapy, the first line option for countries following the evidence? Which ones fully support "gender journeys", including detransition?