"Biological sex is not a social construct – male and female are distinct material realities which have significant implications for medical and surgical treatment of many different conditions...
https://twitter.com/lascapigliata8/status/1390406708250415104
...These physiological differences are relevant on the levels of clinical practice, research, and policy, and absolutely must be acknowledged in order for physicians to best treat their patients."
"2/3rds of our written materials have been updated with this new language. For the 1/3rd that has remained out-of-date, our class has received multiple..emails from course instructors in which they provide corrections, beg for forgiveness and patience, and avow to “do better”"
"A vocal minority of students are loudly in favor of the most extreme aspects of gender ideology, while the majority seem to be vaguely supportive in a nonspecific way. I think that this comes from a mixture of naive goodwill and fear – they are trying to be good allies...
...and this is the only way they know how. Additionally, it is heavily implied that to ask critical questions, even in a way which is ultimately patient-centered and supportive, is perpetuating bigotry, so they just nod along"
"One professor broke down crying after a genetics lecture which relied heavily on the use of “male” and “female” by necessity. (Though the lecture also made ample space to talk about transgender and non-binary individuals, this was not enough to appease the critics.)...
...Another professor referred to “pregnant women” rather than “pregnant people” and spent a very uncomfortable few minutes after class abjectly apologizing for having caused offense “by implying that only women can get pregnant”. It was incredibly disturbing to see"
"A person’s pronouns are not relevant when deciding to prescribe a particular antibiotic, and at which dose."
"If there are relevant but subtle sex-specific differences, then they will often be downplayed or ignored altogether..(e.g)we were told that the higher risk of heart attacks in men was due only to the presence of testosterone, and not for any other reason,which is patently false"
"the denial of sex is just one manifestation of a greater problem, which is the corrosion of critical thinking itself..the triumph of dogma over data ..is fundamentally incompatible with critical thinking, the most powerful all-purpose tool a physician has at his or her disposal"
"Our positions as students are precarious, especially if one is labeled as being on the wrong side of history. Consequences for speaking out can include shunning, being anonymously reported to the school for “remediation”, being informally blacklisted...
... from research and leadership opportunities, and potentially expulsion. Until I have earned my degree and have completed residency, I need to remain anonymous. To do otherwise would be to kill my career before it has even begun"
"I think it should be on the onus of administration and our tenured professors to stand up against this madness, rather than on lone students to publicly put themselves at risk of debt and ruin. For now, I resist in the small ways that I can"
The above thread is quotes from this Q&A with a medical student at an American university. plebity.org/conversations/…
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