Gender Studies Faces a Bleak Future on College Campuses; Leftists Worried.

Proponents of the controversial “gender studies” discipline are now on high alert as Republicans move to do away with it on college campuses, arguing that it is less a legitimate academic field and more an instrument of left-wing politics.
Florida, which has recently been a battlefront of many culture-war issues, is once more causing stir with the news that the newly appointed conservative trustee board at the New College of Florida in Sarasota voted last week to scrap the university’s 28-year gender-studies program.
Trustee Matthew Spalding, a professor at the right-leaning Hillsdale College and now a trustee for New College of Florida, asserted in a statement to The Daily Signal that gender studies does not offer anything substantial that is not covered by other fields.
“Not only does gender studies fall well outside this focus, but its ideologically driven and tendentious character render it more a movement of cultural politics than an academic discipline,” Spalding said. “Any substantial topic taken up in gender studies may be found thoroughly treated in the ordinary academic disciplines such as history, psychology, or biology.”
He concluded, “Removal of gender studies as an area of concentration at New College is fully in accord with its strategic mission to be the state of Florida’s liberal arts honors college.”
Gender studies was born out of women’s studies, and places a focus on LGBT ideology. This emphasis has earned it the scrutiny of conservatives. Now that there is a nationwide momentum to push back against transgender indoctrination in K-12 classrooms, those in the higher education community anticipate a similar, far-reaching push against gender studies on college campuses.
Lisa Moore, professor of women’s and gender studies and the director of the LGBTQ Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin, told The Hill, “Those of us who are working in red states are on pretty high alert.”
If the Rainbow Flag brigade doesn’t want to be the recipient of public censure, maybe they should stop trying to force their views on minors in the classrooms and via drag shows, and simply keep their sexual proclivities to themselves.
(And stay the hell out of FLORIDA.)

 

https://thenewamerican.com/us/education/gender-studies-faces-a-bleak-future-on-college-campuses-leftists-worried/