Top Christian College Tells ‘Natural Sciences’ Professors to Never Say ‘Woman’ or ‘Female’ – Opinion

If you’re interested in science, Wheaton College can help you follow some.

Massachusetts’s school issued a language guide to professors.

Under the heading of “Natural Sciences,” the instructions explain, “Gender identity has a complicated relationship to biology and bodies.”

It’s about assignment:

[T]Ransgenders identify with another sex/gender than the one they were given at birth and often (but not always), alter their bodies to make this transition. And intersex people, who make up a significant minority of all births (estimated to be as common as one in every 100 births), disprove the “naturalness” or inevitability of two exhaustive and mutually exclusive sex categories.

Stay true to your science

Natural science instructors who are tasked with teaching about sexuality and sex differences may want to use terms that are more specific and better reflect the bodies and experiences of their students.

These are three examples:

• Penis/testes/vulva/clitoris/etc. instead of “male genitalia” and “female genitalia”
• Assigned [male/female] at birth (AMAB or AFAB), instead of “born female” or “biological male”: acknowledges that which physical characteristics we use to assign sex at birth are determined by social norms and technological capabilities (in the U.S., for example, we rarely test hormone levels or chromosomes unless physical genitalia appear ambiguous), as well as the fact that this is an assignment, not the individual’s own self-identification.
• People with uteruses/people who menstruate/pregnant people/etc., instead of “women” or “females”: helps to specify the relevant organs or biological processes, instead of making assumptions about the identities of the people in question. “People with uteruses,” then, would include most (but not all) cisgender women, as well as many transgender men and nonbinary AFAB people. This specificity matters for trans and nonbinary students in class, but also for anyone who, for example, might become a healthcare worker — inability to access competent and sensitive medical treatment (not just transition-related health care, but also basic preventive and acute medical care) is a persistent problem for transgender people.

While wakingness can be described as a matter of language, this seems contrary to its intended purpose. Logophiles used to expand their dictionary of terms to be more literate in the past. 1. Clear 2. concise. These days, we’re being told to keep vocabulary at a minimum.

Human beings have sought words to describe a concept for thousands of years. It now appears that the reverse is necessary.

For maximum compliance, you should stop learning new words. Also, you should delete everything that is possible.

Use “four-wheeled automotive vehicle designed for passenger transportation” rather than “car.”

And refrain from employing “elephant;” simply say or write this:

An extremely thickset, almost hairless herbivorous mammal that is often large (Family Elephantidae: the Elephant family). The snout has been elongated to form a trunk, and the two upper jaws developed in particular in males into long ivory-tusks.

Definitions include words. Words have definitions. Perhaps eventually, we’ll attain complete wokeness and only draw.

People with periods should not be referred to as such for the moment.

Wheaton’s guide — called “The Gender-Affirming Classroom” — also advises teachers not to “correct students’ use of the singular ‘they.’”

Furthermore, “Be mindful of respecting the pronoun a person requests that you use — not everyone who identifies as nonbinary uses ‘they.’”

Be all-around educated

It is not just about gender affirming pronouns in the classroom; it’s also evident in the text we give and how we talk about them.

Tip 1: Recognize when the text is using outdated, excluded, or hetero/cis normative language.

We’re living in an age of affirmation. Sorry — we’re exhibiting the life or motion of nature in or into the interior of the time of life at which some particular qualification, power, or capacity arises or rests of the act of stating or declaring positively and often forcefully or aggressively something, such as a judgment or decree, as valid or confirmed.

The evangelical abolitionists who founded Wheaton College in 1860.

-ALEX

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