Course ‘sounds like the result of a game, ’ health reform party says
The University of Minnesota regularly offers a course titled “Intersectional and Decolonizing Approaches to Transgender Health, ” as part of several graduate degree programs.
This completely website, three-credit program is part of the Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Certificate system and the Master’s of Professional Studies in Sexual Health.
According to the college website, the program uses an “intersectional view ” and analyzes “systemic alienation of gender-diverse populations. ” The program also addresses the “historical pathologization of various identity and sexual identities within medical. ”
Learners are encouraged to critically assess prejudices and “western conclusions ” related to “gender identity, sexual orientation, gender assigned at birth, and sex appearance. ”
Professor Nic Rider has taught the lessons in the past. The scientific did not respond to an contacted request for comment, nor a voice left in the past month by The College Fix.
The Fix asked Rider ( pictured ) for a copy of the syllabus, what “decolonizing ” healthcare means, and if the class examines current debates about the safety and efficacy of transgender drugs and surgeries. The Fix even reached up to other professor Taymy Caso for reply, but the teacher did not respond.
Rider uses “they/them ” pronouns, and has an interest in “intersectionality, improving various health disparities, sexual health and pleasure, decolonizing healing justice, systems change and social justice advocacy, ” according to the professor’s bio.
The study director for a health reform party criticized the course
Do No Harm Director of Research Ian Kingsbury said the information “sounds like the result of a trick: ‘How several communist buzzwords may we fit into a single program information? ‘ ”
When asked what a program on transgender healthcare does support, Kingsbury said it does “earnestly struggle with ethical concerns surrounding the ability of minors to provide educated consent. ”
He said it should also “provide information related to medical practice, including the risks associated with traverse sex hormone therapy and puberty blockers. ”
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“Given the frame of the matter, I’d get shocked if this program adequately addressed topics like the Cass Review, detransitioners, or the awful state of health books cited to justify neonatal gender medicine, ” he said.
The Cass Review is an official study undertaken by the National Health Service in the United Kingdom to look at the safety and efficacy of transgender drugs and surgeries.
Dr. Hilary Cass generally warned against their use in her official review.
On the inclusion of “decolonizing ” in the course ’s title and curriculum, Kingsbury remarked: “It’s a leftist shibboleth which broadly hints at a departure from Western traditions like the scientific method. It’s an immediate indicator that the work does n’t deserve to be taken seriously. ”
The university’s transgender health program does not appear to take issue with injecting minors with drugs or removing their healthy organs. It offers a class called “Considerations in the care of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents. ”
“This course will examine the health care ( broadly defined ) needs and care of transgender and gender-diverse children and adolescents, ” the description states. “To lay the groundwork, we will discuss the importance of a well-balanced, nuanced, and thoughtful approach to the available research, clinical knowledge, and dilemmas in the field. ”
Meanwhile, biologists have confirmed that sex is immutable, as previously reported by The Fix.
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