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Vaccine mandates complicate the jobs recovery

A growing number of companies are thinking about requiring employees to vax up for work.

Why it matters: COVID-19 vaccination rates are plateauing across the country while infections spike. Mandating that all employees be vaccinated will make some workers feel safer about returning to the office — but it risks alienating those who are opposed to getting the jab.

  • And with employers trying desperately to hang on to workers — and attract new ones — they may find themselves in a no-win situation.

Driving the news: This week, a number of states and municipalities, including California and New York, announced vaccine mandates for state employees. Those who choose not to get the COVID-19 vaccine will have to get tested regularly.

The big picture: In some states, like Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Alabama, less than 40% of the population is fully vaccinated — far from what’s needed for local herd immunity.

In May, 72% of employers said they would not require employee vaccinations, in a survey of 660 U.S. companies by Willis Towers Watson.

But, but, but: Some of those employers have changed course as the Delta variant has spread and are reconsidering a mandate, Willis told the Wall Street Journal.

State of play: Unions representing health care workers, firefighters, teachers and police forces, among others, are pushing back on mandates.

  • They argue that mandating the shots would be unfairly risky, often citing the fact that the vaccines have not yet received full approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
  • The vaccines received emergency authorization earlier this year, and experts expect the FDA to grant them full approval in the next couple of months.

The impact: Employers are walking a tightrope.

  • While some are requiring all employees to be vaccinated, others are mandating only that new hires get the shots.

Vaccine mandates could also be a legal minefield.

  • The legality of mandates is complicated, given the range of local laws on the issue. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has said that federal law doesn’t bar employers from requiring vaccinations — but some states have taken matters into their own hands and moved to ban vaccine mandates.

In one example of the fallout, Houston Methodist Hospital in April required that workers get vaccinated — and a group of 117 employees sued the hospital system.

What to watch: When the FDA fully approves the vaccines, it’ll be a watershed moment for the legal debate.

Democrats’ Jim Crow Vaccine Laws Disproportionately Persecute Blacks, Hispanics

The Democrat party is desperate to use the coronavirus to bring back its Jim Crow laws, and there’s no question this discrimination will disproportionately persecute racial minorities.

Let’s begin by flying 30,000 feet over this problem for some perspective…

From what we now know, there’s almost zero chance the vaccinated will become seriously ill or die from a “breakthrough” China Flu infection. That’s not only a fact; it’s a fact coming directly from the CDC. Yet, Democrats and their fascist allies in the corporate media, Big Business, Big Tech, and Hollywood want to turn half the country into second-class citizens over what is currently a 0.0037 percent chance the vaccinated will be hospitalized by a “breakthrough” infection and an even smaller chance, 0.00071 percent, the vaccinated will die.

Currently, and again this is according to the CDC, 161 million-plus Americans have been vaccinated. Of the 161 million-plus, only 5,914 have gotten sick enough to be hospitalized, and 1,141 have died. Of those, 74 percent were over the age of 65.

So let me repeat, of the vaccinated, only 0.0037 percent have gotten sick enough to be hospitalized, and only 0.00071 have died. That means 1 out of 27,223 people have gotten seriously ill, and 1 out of 141,000 have died. Those are astronomically low odds. How low? Your chances of someday dying in a car accident are 1 in 107. Your chances of dying in a car accident this year are 1 in 8,393.

Yes, the numbers for breakthrough hospitalizations and deaths can change. But this is the information we have right now, which makes it the best information available. And in all the hysteria, let’s not forget the numbers could decrease.

Knowing this, I can tell you with unquestionable certainty that I’d feel safer in a mosh pit with the unvaccinated than driving down the street, and I feel perfectly safe driving down the street.

Nevertheless, despite all this, the organized left is coming hard for the unvaccinated. They want to exclude roughly half the country from being able to work, go to school, participate in sports, enter supermarkets, restaurants, sporting events, and the list goes on and on and will continue to go on and on as our dreadful left-wing elites fill themselves with bloodlust against those who refuse to do what they’re told.

And that’s all this is about. As made clear by the CDC’s own numbers above, this rampage has zero to do with science. The organized left is angry for only one reason: half the country is not doing what it’s told. That’s the only reason for all this rage and hysteria, and we know this because the math proves that those of us who are vaccinated have no rational reason to fear the unvaccinated. But in order to bully the unvaccinated into doing what they’re told, the left’s treating some 150 million people, including small children, like they’re walking biohazards.

But here’s the thing… If Democrats are going to use the China Flu to return to their Jim Crow roots, once again, it will be racial minorities who face the brunt of this political prosecution. It is simply a fact that black and Hispanic Americans are the least likely to get vaccinated.

As of the latest polling, 47 percent of whites are vaccinated, and 62 percent of Asians, but Hispanics sit at a much lower 39 percent, and blacks at an even lower 34 percent.

That means that 66 percent of blacks and 61 percent of Hispanics, clear majorities, will bear the brunt of these anti-science Jim Crow vaccinations laws, mandates, and policies.

So much for equity.

That also means a disproportionate number of black and Hispanic Americans are – for no valid scientific reason — being scapegoated by the likes of an elite white racist like His Fraudulency Joe Biden, who this week attacked the intelligence of the unvaccinated.

“But if you’re not vaccinated, you’re not nearly as smart as I thought you were,” Biden said Tuesday.

How long before Democrats suggest the unvaccinated should not be allowed to vote? You know that’s coming.

Oh, and let’s not forget that all of this is taking place as Biden flies tens of thousands of unvaccinated illegal aliens all over our country and drops them into our towns and cities.

The facts, as we know them right now, are this…

On any reasonable scale, the unvaccinated are no threat to the vaccinated.

The unvaccinated are only a threat to others who are unvaccinated, and they have every right to take that risk if they so choose.

Nowhere in the country is our health care system at any risk of being overrun.

Coronavirus deaths are still well, well, well below the levels we saw pre-vaccine.

Even among the unvaccinated, the chances of surviving the coronavirus are over 99.5 percent for those under 70 and over 99.9 percent if you’re under 50.

This bigotry, persecution, and segregation make no scientific sense.

Lockdowns and mask mandates make no scientific sense.

None of this makes scientific sense.

Things could change, the numbers could change, but right now, it’s all politics, bigotry, and bloodlust.

With Trump gone and Democrats worried sick about a 2022 blowout, the unvaccinated are being set up to be the left’s midterm bogeyman.

Everyday Americans, predominantly blacks and Hispanics, are the left’s new scapegoats and demons.

Walt Disney, Walmart Mandates COVID-19 Vaccine for US Employees, Alters Mask Policy

The Walt Disney Company and Walmart announced a new policy on Friday that will require every employee working for the company in the United States to be vaccinated against the CCP virus.

Disney’s new measure will give both salaried and non-union hourly employees across the nation 60 days to be compliant, the company said in a statement. Newly hired employees will also be required to be fully vaccinated before beginning employment.

“Employees who aren’t already vaccinated and are working on-site will have 60 days from today to complete their protocols and any employees still working from home will need to provide verification of vaccination prior to their return, with certain limited exceptions,” according to the statement.

The company added that it also started conversations with union leaders representing employees over COVID-19 vaccinations.

“Vaccines are the best tool we all have to help control this global pandemic and protect our employees,” Disney said. The international family entertainment and media enterprise has about 203,000 employees and is headquartered in Burbank, California.

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A Disney+ streaming service sign is pictured at the D23 Expo, billed as the “largest Disney fan event in the world,” at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif., on Aug. 23, 2019. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

It is unclear how many employees are affected and if workers will be given the option to show a weekly COVID-19 test as other companies with similar proof of vaccination mandates have allowed.

Disney’s policy was announced as several big-tech companies, including Google and Facebook, said in July that every American employee must get the jab before stepping back into office.

Also on Friday, Arkansas-based multinational retailer Walmart said all employees at its headquarters and managers who travel within the United States must be vaccinated by early October.

“We’re hoping that will influence even more of our frontline associates to become vaccinated,” said Scott Pope, a Walmart spokesman.

The retailer, which announced in May that fully vaccinated employees could work without masks, also reversed its mask policy for employees working in stores, clubs, distribution facilities, and warehouses. Going forward, they will be required to wear masks in areas with high infection rates, even if they have been vaccinated.

Walmart is also encouraging customers to wear masks in stores located in areas with surging cases and will be adding back signs at the entrances. It will also bring back so-called health ambassadors who will be stationed at the entrances and hand out masks.

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A family wears masks while shopping at a Walmart store in Bradford, Penn., on July 20, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

The reversal in its mask policy came three days after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) altered its CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus-related guidance once again, telling people to wear masks in some areas even if they are fully vaccinated against the virus that causes the disease COVID-19.

New research into outbreaks from several states and other countries “indicate[s] that on rare occasions some vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant after vaccination may be contagious and spread the virus to others.” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC, told reporters on a call.

The research indicates that vaccinated people who contract the Delta variant have the same viral load, or amount of virus, as unvaccinated people, and that vaccinated people can transmit the variant.

“This new science is worrisome and warrants an update to our recommendations,” Walensky said.

New Mexico House Democrat Resigns Amid Criminal Probe Into Racketeering, Money-Laundering

New Mexico House Majority Leader Sheryl Williams Stapleton, a Democrat, resigned Friday amid a criminal probe involving allegations that include money laundering and racketeering, according to reports.

Stapleton announced her resignation in a July 30 letter, obtained by The Paper, to the Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, in which she “unequivocally” denied the allegations.

“This is a decision that weighs heavily on me, and which I have made after a tremendous amount of consideration of the best interest of the People,” she wrote, adding that she “must devote a significant amount of time and energy to fully defend against these allegations.”

While no charges have been filed against Stapleton, authorities are investigating her for possible racketeering, money laundering, kickbacks, and violations of a law governing the conduct of state lawmakers, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.

Stapleton’s attorney, Ahmad Assed, told the Albuquerque Journal on Wednesday that it’s too early to comment on the investigation.

“We have to do our due diligence and our own investigation,” Assed said. “Rep. Stapleton will have a comment when it is appropriate. That could be soon or later in the process.”

Authorities are probing Stapleton’s possibly illegal connections to a company that received more than $5 million in contracts to do business with Albuquerque Public Schools, and whether she received financial kickbacks.

As part of that investigation, the Attorney General’s Office on Wednesday executed search warrants at Stapleton’s home and businesses, and at Albuquerque Public Schools, where Stapleton oversees career technical education, according to documents featured in The Paper’s report.

“While we cannot comment on the specifics of an ongoing investigation, I can assure New Mexicans that because this matter involves schools and public funds, we will be swift and diligent in concluding this investigation,” Attorney General Hector Balderas said in a statement about the investigation.

Stapleton has been put on paid administrative by the school district, The Associated Press reports.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, said in a statement that she is “deeply, deeply troubled by the reports this morning about a law enforcement investigation into Rep. Stapleton,” adding that “public confidence in government is seriously damaged by even the appearance of impropriety, or illegal activity, which is why public officials must always hold themselves to the highest possible standard of behavior.”

“New Mexicans expect and deserve elected officials who, regardless of party, will put the people before themselves. Anything less violates a sacred public trust and must be dealt with accordingly,” Grisham added.

In a joint statement, New Mexico House Speaker Brian Egolf, House Majority Whip Doreen Gallegos, and House Majority Caucus Chair D. Wonda Johnson, said they support Stapleton’s decision to resign.

“Given the weight of the allegations against Rep. Stapleton and the ongoing investigation, her resignation from the House is appropriate and in the best interest of the Legislature and the state,” they said.

Commenting on the probe, New Mexico Republican Party Chairman Steve Pearce called it “a sad day in New Mexico politics.”

“I know Rep. Stapleton personally, and we have worked together, but there’s no excuse for what she’s apparently done,” he said in a statement Friday. “Rep. Stapleton must be held accountable, and we hope the investigation and judicial process will take the proper course in this matter.”

Officials cited by The Associated Press said that 11 additional district staff who are subjects of the investigation have also been placed on administrative leave.

‘Queer That Class’: Middle School Teacher Presents Curriculum To Teach Preteens About Pronouns, Queer Theory, Critical Theory

A Colorado middle school teacher explains how to “Queer That Class” by teaching Critical Theory and Queer Theory to 12-year-old 6th graders.

Amanda Cherry, a middle school Language Arts instructor at Southern Hills Middle School in Boulder, Colorado, presented a lesson plan called “Queer That Class!” reportedly to a A Queer Endeavor conference, which describes itself “queer-led” organization that seeks to expand “gender, sexual and family diversity in education”.

In the session, Cherry says the presentation will teach instructors “about queering the content of your secondary Language Arts classes”. She explicitly seeks to inform fellow educators how to introduce middle school children to Queer Theory, including “pronouns, Critical Lenses and Queer Theory”. Cherry notes that she has been teaching 6th graders for 12 years, but has been teaching her students Queer Theory for six years, since she connected with the Queer Endeavor project.

Queer Theory, which is linked to Critical Theory – the basis for Critical Race Theory – teaches children to view books, poems, and other texts through the lens of a person who is LGBTQ, or to examine what impacts such texts may have on those who are LGBTQ. Cherry seems to suggest that her 6th grade students are first learning about Queer Theory in her classroom.

In her PowerPoint notes, Cherry states that her goal is to present herself as an “ally” to her students and create a “safe space” to discuss gender identity and Queer Theory “from day one.” In the video, Cherry explained, “Work starts really right away, on day one. And I start with pronouns right away, partially because it’s so important to be in a relationship with someone to know their pronouns, but also because it starts our path, it lets kiddos know that I’m an ally to LGBTQ+ students, it lets kiddos know that justice and equity are important to me, and it kind of sets the path for the work that we can do throughout the year.”

Cherry admits in her notes that when she began teaching Queer Theory to 12-year-olds, “most 6th graders said they didn’t care”, which led her to refine her tactics. The next year, Cherry says she “modeled what it looks like to misgender someone – how I would feel if I was misgendered” which “kids understood much better” and led them to share their pronouns. Still, Cherry warns not to force kids to share their pronouns if they prefer not to, seemingly suggesting this could be counterproductive.

“When I first started teaching pronouns years ago, I came in and I introduced my pronouns, and I said okay, if you would like to share your pronouns you can. And so many students said, I don’t really care what pronouns you use with me. I thought oh, I kind of messed this up,” Cherry admitted in the video. “The next year I came back and I again introduced myself with my name and my pronouns, then I also said, I told the story, last year everyone said they didn’t care what their pronouns are, but if someone used the wrong pronouns with me, I would correct them, so it does matter.”

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Vaccinated People ‘Can Transmit the Virus’: CDC Director Walensky

Vaccinated people infected by Covid-19 Delta variant carry as much virus as unvaccinated.

QUICK FACTS:
  • A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report says “127 vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant during the outbreak appeared to carry as much virus as 84 unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people who become infected,” according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
  • CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Friday that “High viral loads suggest an increased risk of transmission and raised concern that, unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus.”
  • The report referred to an outbreak in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, where local officials said that “at least 430 confirmed Covid-19 cases have been linked to one cluster following festivities over the July 4 weekend in Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod,” notes WSJ.
  • Cases in which people are infected after having received the vaccine are called “breakthrough infections.”
  • WSJ says it “isn’t clear how common breakthrough infections are and how much they contribute to the virus’s spread.”
  • The New York Times reports scientists are saying vaccinated individuals becoming infected with coronavirus is “more common than once thought.”
BACKGROUND:
  • Nevertheless, the CDC still recommends individuals receive the vaccine.
  • The CDC also recommended earlier this week that even vaccinated people must go back to wearing masks.
  • Dr. Peter McCullough—epidemiologist, cardiologist, and professor with thousands of National Library of Medicine (NLM) publications—said in a recent interview that the coronavirus vaccine spike protein is “dangerous,” “damaging to organs,” and can be “lethal.” See the full interview below.
  • On June 1, American Faith reported how McCullough had warned early on that the vaccines do not protect against new variants.
  • An FDA slideshow presentation from 2020 resurfaced on social media this week showing the FDA’s “working list of possible adverse event outcomes” after taking the vaccine that included Guillain-Barré syndrome, encephalitis, seizures, stroke, acute myocardial infarction, myocarditis/pericarditis, autoimmune disease, deaths, pregnancy and birth outcomes, and more.

Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.

Critics cast doubt on alarming new Delta variant findings from CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention altered its mask guidance after a report found the Delta COVID-19 variant spreads as easily as chickenpox, possibly even among the vaccinated — but critics have ripped it as misleading and based on weak data.

The widely ridiculed change in mask policy followed an internal CDC presentation, first obtained by the Washington Post, that claimed that it was time to “acknowledge the war has changed.”

The leaked report, compiled of several different studies, claimed that the variant causes more severe illness among the unvaccinated and is more transmissible than Ebola, the flu and even the common cold, regardless of vaccination status.

The Delta strain is now the most dominant one in the US.

“Delta variant vaccine breakthrough cases may be as transmissible as unvaccinated cases,” the report claims.

The unidentified authors insisted that it was now time for experts to stop claiming that breakthrough infections were “rare” — even arguing that “universal masking is essential” given the spread amongst those vaccinated.

The presentation was based largely on unpublished research, The Washington Post noted — with warnings in large red type also noting that it was “preliminary data, subject to change.”

It was quickly panned by critics, who noted the vague data used in raising the alarm.

“Democrats are basing their new mask mandate on a 100-person study from India,” tweeted Republican leader Kevin McCarthy.

“It didn’t pass peer-review and uses vaccines that aren’t approved in America. This is the ‘science’ they are using to try to control Americans!” he wrote.

The presentation did mention studies in India, although it also referenced research of a community spread in Massachusetts, as well as work in Los Angeles, Scotland, Singapore and Israel.

Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw also insisted that “the CDC has presented no data showing vaccinated people are spreading COVID infections” — taking aim at the lack of transparency by the public federal agency in not releasing this report publicly.

“If you’re vaccinated, you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than dying of COVID,” the former SEAL tweeted.

“Our government, now considering lockdowns, has lost its effing mind,” he said.

Fellow Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday also tweeted that “the CDC’s willingness to twist facts for political expediency is stunning.”

He shared a video of him asking if there has “ever been an institution in American public life that has more discredited itself more rapidly than the CDC.”

“Today, the CDC has willingly allowed itself to be politicized, to behave as an arm of the DNC, and their credibility is in tatters. It is a joke,” Cruz said.

The Washington Post noted that the leaked presentation was informational, rather than official CDC policy. The agency did not respond to the paper’s requests for comment.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, ripped the way the latest mask advice was given without clear data and justification.

“You don’t, when you’re a public health official, want to be saying, ‘Trust us, we know, we can’t tell you how,’” Jamieson told the Washington Post.

“The scientific norm suggests that when you make a statement based on science, you show the science.”

She also said the CDC made a “second mistake” in that “they do not appear to be candid about the extent to which breakthroughs are yielding hospitalizations.”

The report was primarily offering advice on how the CDC should handle “communication challenges” now that evidence suggests even those jabbed are getting infected and spreading the virus. It expressed concern about how the findings “may reduce public confidence in vaccines.”

It noted “concerns from local health departments,” and insisted it was time to stop describing breakthrough infections as a “small percentage of cases.”

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TX Gov. Abbott orders Nat. Guard to arrest illegal immigrants

On Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas National Guard to begin assisting troopers with arresting illegal immigrants who violate Texas law as thousands continue pouring across the United States-Mexico.

“To respond to this disaster and secure the rule of law at our Southern border, more manpower is needed—in addition to the troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and soldiers from the Texas National Guard I have already deployed there—and DPS needs help in arresting those who are violating state law,” Abbott wrote in a letter to Maj. Gen. Tracy R. Norris, adjutant general of the Texas National Guard.

“By virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, I hereby order that the Texas National Guard assist DPS in enforcing Texas law by arresting lawbreakers at the border,” he continued.

Abbott’s announcement builds on a broader effort launched earlier this month in which Texas law enforcement started jailing illegal immigrants who were caught trespassing on private land. According to The Associated Press, the arrests in Texas have so far taken place in Val Verde County, where local officials were notified that individuals traveling alone, not family units, would be arrested. Detainees are being held at a previously empty prison in Dilley, Texas, roughly 100 miles north of Laredo.

County Judge Lewis Owens said crime is on the rise in the county of almost 50,000 residents, including home break-ins, theft and property damage.

Despite the increased state efforts to combat illegal immigration and local crime that is rising as a result, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last Friday announced that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is canceling two Texas border barrier projects that include 31 miles of border wall construction, asserting they “are not necessary to address any life, safety, environmental or other remediation requirements.”

“The [Biden] Administration also continues to call on Congress to cancel remaining border wall funding and instead fund smarter border security measures, like border technology and modernization of land ports of entry, that are proven to be more effective at improving safety and security at the border,” the DHS said.

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Professor apologizes to medical students for being ‘offensive,’ saying ‘only women can get pregnant’

A California medical school student says professors are cowering to “woke ideology” out of fear that students will use an instant reporting system against them if they teach that sex is a biological reality and not a “social construct.”

In a piece titled “Med Schools are Now Denying Biological Sex,” on the Substack page called “Common Sense with Bari Weiss,” journalist Katie Herzog shared recordings of lectures captured by a student at a medical school in the University of California system. One recording details how, after using the term “pregnant women” during a lecture, the professor of an endocrinology course apologized for uttering that phrase. 

“I’m very sorry for that. It was clearly not my intention to offend anyone. The worst thing that I can do as a human being is be offensive,” he said. “I said ‘when a woman is pregnant,’ which implies that only women can get pregnant and I most sincerely apologize to all of you.” 

While biologically speaking, only women can get pregnant, Herzog’s report comes at a time when many people are claiming otherwise. Just last week, draft drawings of a proposed emoji featuring a “pregnant man” first surfaced. The proposed emoji, designed to advance the idea that men can get pregnant as well as women, could be available to the public as early as next year. 

The medical school student who provided recordings to Herzog explained that from the perspective of some of her classmates, “acknowledging biological sex can be considered transphobic.” Herzog wrote that “when sex is acknowledged by her instructors, it’s sometimes portrayed as a social construct, not a biological reality.” For example, one of the girl’s professors reportedly argued that “Biological sex, sexual orientation, and gender are all constructs.”

When asked whether professors actually believe the aforementioned statements that they recited in front of their students, the student, who Herzog referred to as the pseudonym “Lauren,” theorized, “I think there’s a small percentage of instructors who are true believers. But most of them are probably just scared of their students.”

Additionally, this particular medical school has an online forum where students can correct their professors for using gender-specific terms such as “male,” “female,” or “breastfeed” as opposed to gender-neutral terms like “chestfeed.” This forum enables students to “lodge their complaints in real time during lectures.” Lauren recalled how one time, “a professor was so upset by students calling her out for using ‘male’ and ‘female’ that she started crying.”

Lauren also told Herzog that at the beginning of the previous school year, students circulated petitions in an effort to “name and shame” professors for engaging in “wrongspeak.”

Examples of “wrongspeak” cited in the petitions included use of the pronouns “she” and “her” as well as the terms “father” and “son.” Upon receiving the petition, the professor accused of using the “cisnormative” language apologized for speaking in “binary” terms and noted that she had consulted with a member of the school’s LGBT Committee before giving the lecture.

Another professor became the subject of a petition for calling a trans-identified male “a man changing into a woman,” which upset students because “it implies that the trans woman wasn’t always a woman.”

Lauren added that “since the petitions were sent out, instructors have been far more proactive about ‘correcting’ their slides in advance or sending out emails to the school listserv if any upcoming material has ‘outdated’ terminology.” 

In one case, a professor sent out an email warning that an upcoming lecture might not align with the school’s “approach to gender inclusivity and gender/sex antioppression” because it would include the phrase “premenopausal women.” The professor vowed to rectify the issue by using the term “premenopausal people” in the future.

The “woke ideology” that has taken hold in medical schools has also made its way into the larger scientific community. Herzog mentioned that the American Psychological Association now considers the terms “natal sex” and “birth sex” “disparaging” and instead uses the phrase “assigned sex at birth.” 

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