The publicly-funded University of Alaska, Anchorage is kicking off the new academic year by offering students a radical LGBTQ activist class called, “Why Pronouns Matter.”
The course is part of an international effort by hard-left organizations to dismantle and reject the traditional understanding that there are only two sexes. Instead, these groups push the notion that human sexuality (or “gender”) is a personal and a fluid social experience that transcends the male/female binary.
Those who push for vast and ever-growing array of LGBTQ pronouns claim that using only terms like he/she, or him/her creates an “unsafe” environment for gender-confused people who want others to actively affirm their novel and often fluid sexual identities.
“Do you want to bolster your efforts to create safe and inclusive spaces for under-represented students? Join our new course in the spring!” a description of the one-credit class at UAA states.
Changing the English language with regard to personal pronoun usage is only the starting point of the UAA class. Ultimately, the course aims to prepare students to become identity politics activists who will go on to advance so-called “collective liberation” of certain groups which claim to suffer from various forms of victimhood.
“[T]he focus of the curriculum will be on exploring and deepening our understandings of why respectful language matters, which will indeed include discussions of pronoun use, but that is the mere surface level of where we endeavor to go,” a flyer for the class notes. “Through this focal point on identity exploration, we’ll come to better understand our own positionality in the cycle of oppression, and come away with tangible ways we all can be more present in the cultivation of collective liberation.”
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The class is scheduled to meet once per week, on Wednesdays from 2:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m., and is open to all students, staff and faculty.
LGBTQ activists Zoe Dohring and Dr. Sara Caldwell-Kan are listed as the course instructors. Dohring, who goes by the personal pronouns “they/them,” works as the campus Student Activities Civic Engagement & Inclusion Coordinator. Caldwell-Kan is the university’s Director of Multicultural Student Services and the (LGBTQ) Pride Center.
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The evil is punching, punching, punching, punching trying to wear down the people whose assignment is to protect the children.
It’s really sad that all the normal people have to put up with this crap! How about (they/them) go get some real professional help instead of forcing they/them on 98% of the normal people?
How is it impacting your life? It isn’t. No one is forcing you to associate with transgender people. I’m sure you don’t. Personally I’ve known quite a few trans people, and I treat them with the same respect with which they treat me, and that means NOT misgendering or dead-naming them.
What’s really sad is that you aren’t in the grave yet.
Comments like this are allowed, but comments on topic and not wishing people dead are not allowed. The filters for this website seem to be going left-leaning editor. Wishing people to be in the grave is not appropriate. This is not Facebook or Truth Social or Gab or any other website where crap talk like this is allowed.
I think that for someone to be writing a statement wishing someone were dead is a highly inappropriate statement. The filter for this website is must be becoming corrupt allowing bad things to be said. Hmmm.
Joel occasionally censors comments. This should have been one of them.
Lucinda, you are correct that Joel should have “censored” your comment. It was unnecessary…just like most of the word salad that comes out of your fingertips.
Some snowflakes on here think your comment is so offensive it should be removed by censorship. Frankly, I’m fine with anyone wishing I were in the grave. It doesn’t bother me in the least. I would actually relish the idea that I triggered them enough to say such a thing.
This is crazy. These people live in an alt-fantasy world. And we’re all being asked to affirm their craziness. When does this nonsense end? I’m out!
You don’t have to “affirm” anything. You don’t have to associate with any LGBTQ people. I’m sure you don’t. It’s really none of your business.
Mass delusion effects us all. It is all of our business.
Chuck, when they make a class about it at a publicly-funded university then its all of our business. I should not need to tell you that.
The whole thing is cultic lunacy and now at taxpayer expense.
I know right, next they’ll start saying they can talk to people no one can hear, and that they follow the teachings of someone who can rise from the dead, who knows they might even start putting oil on their heads and chanting magick words. At least Christians are rational.
There are plenty of things that MY tax dollars are used for that I don’t like. I have my vote ready to get rid of the people who spend my tax dollars on things I don’t like.
Chuck, its uplifting to see you agree that issues you disagree with are indeed your “business” and you are entitled to express yourself thereon.
Michael Dunleavy , are you getting your money’s worth of wickedness! You idiot, funded this with my tax dollars and I’m pissed!
Mr. Maxwell, Why is it that EVERYTHING about you is Governor Dunleavy’s fault? Not once have you EVER commented regarding ANY article that did not contain a criticism of our Governor. How about an occasional constructive comment and/or recommendations? Your implacable obsession with the Governor is unhealthy. Good day Sir!
Hiding behind an alias is juvenile and has been adopted as normal in our present day culture, because adults forget how to stand up for others and principals, unafraid and not intimidated by shadows! Take this as advisory!
Mr dunleavy is the governor! My own resources and sweat contributed to getting him there! He has failed at every turn. In this particular case defunding the university. His 16 gauge wire spine bent and gave it all back with more when they pushed back! Hence now he’s directly responsible for lgbtwhatever crap that is brainwashing you and your children! That “sir” was the beginning of the garbage this state has been forced to endure because of this weak mindset “man”! Other subjects you look at and evaluate! Election fraud, Clhoe Cole, Principal Mary Fulp, ocs, dhss twice as big, Covid killing with Ann zinc, carbon credits, dunleavy’s AG sending letter of instruction to librarian lawbreakers etc! I advise you to grow up and be the man God made you to be and critically think, be unafraid to hold your leaders accountable! We have become way too soft and as Emerald Robinson is quoted , “ we have done an enormous amount of damage by promoting the false gospel of tolerance “! It’s time to think again!
DaveMaxwell ( who are you?)
remember when he cut university funding and the left flipped out? let’s go back to that Dunleavy.
Yes, agreed. Let’s cut University funding
The universities are responsible for the majority of the insanity we see in this country. They have been corrupting students for decades!
I just want to vomit , their sick and lost individuals
Wake up people open your eyes to all this Evil, Christ is coming get right with him before it’s to late.
Further proof that a college degree is more of a hinderance than a help when it comes to professional advancement.
That depends on what you want to do in life. If you think you would be happy working as a plumber or an electrician, you could go to a vocational school. But if you want to be a doctor or a civil engineer, you’ll need a good college education. What if your daughter says she wants to be an ornithologist? Are you just going to say, “Sorry, honey, I know how much you love birds, but no child of mine is going to college” ?
That is exactly correct Chuck. No child of mine is going to a leftist indoctrination center known as a “college”. However, there still are some conservative colleges out there. You are also correct in that I would be very happy if some of my 10 children become plumbers and/or electricians. In fact my son is getting a degree in Texas as an electrician and will start his own electrical company and make more money than almost all of the graduates of these “colleges”.
Have you hired an electrician or plumber lately Chuck? They make bank of they’re any good and, gasp!, willing to actually show u and do the job.
I have friends who are MD’s who regret their career choice. College is an indoctrination these days. Learn a skill, develop a work ethic and thrive.
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R we censoring again?
Leftists are now using transgenderism as one more political issue to divide people, and dividing people helps to reinforce the Left-vs-Right dichotomy, which they feel works in their favor. The Democrats have been playing that game for decades now, and they accelerated it greatly during the Obama administration, playing on “racism” (of all things with a black president!), and they liked the results. So, maybe transgenderism is just the latest. Pretty soon it will be goat- and turkey-‘fu..rs.’ And the ‘educated elite’ will not only go along with it, they’ll eat it up as quickly as it’s dished out. American society is so sick in so many ways—mentally, emotionally, physically, and soon financially.
Those kind of “slippery slope” arguments are intellectually lazy.
You mean to say “those kinds… of arguments…” to maintain grammatic parallelism in your sentence. In any event, your point is fundamentally erroneous. All immorality and depravity starts incrementally. The slippery slope is Satan’s most-used trick.
1.6 million people over age 13 identify as transgender, accdg to Reuters. That number would increase if children under 13 were also included. The suicide rate of this class is quite high too, when they get depressed and cannot reverse their life-changing surgeries pushed on them by the insanity of the education and the medical system. Now, 98% of us need to relearn English incorrectly at UAA to accommodate the 2%, when the majority of them will regret their actions? (I bet those teachers are quite an addition too.) What’s next, library hour for the college students, featuring the drag queens during afternoon break from 1-3? Since this is UAA’s focus, ie, contributing to the further destruction of American culture, why not boycott them? Defund them and don’t relent. It’s pure arrogance on their part to use taxpayer money to contribute to our own ruination. We are the majority and this won’t stop until pedophilia is legalized. This is the end goal, folks, the ability of pedophiles to strut out in the open with our minor children. This is their dream and their hope. It won’t be long . Change starts at the bottom, with us, the PEOPLE. We are 98% strong. We don’t have to take it.
You are so correct! However, the most of the general public has no spine to stand up to this evil. Fear has taken over and I am not sure if we will ever get back to normal. Yes, this LGBTQ+ whatever is not normal, but is being shoved at us as if it were. Attend the Board Of Regents meetings, take like-minded people with you and testify every single time. Use facts and not emotion. Make the move toward normalcy!
The numbers you illuminate fit the precise definition of a social fad.
Where do I sign up to pay these student’s loans? Or is it done automatically? I’m assuming they won’t be able to get jobs or pay their own debts. Thanks!
You are so correct! However, the most of the general public has no spine to stand up to this evil. Fear has taken over and I am not sure if we will ever get back to normal. Yes, this LGBTQ+ whatever is not normal, but is being shoved at us as if it were. Attend the Board Of Regents meetings, take like-minded people with you and testify every single time. Use facts and not emotion. Make the move toward normalcy!
If people are mentally disturbed by the identity wording of she or he, they have bigger issues mentally than mere words. How about identifying as peaceful within and let that mental thought lead the way, in harmony with the natural order of life and not confusion, and not to the strange ideas of lower intellects who clearly do not understand the laws of mind and how to operate them. This will fail as fast as all the former empires (today would be called political corporations) throughout history did when it forced to integrate strange and unnatural ideologies and the minds of those in the culture, and those who went along with it fell into a hell experience along with the leaders. A sign that any species is in decline, is when that species is unable to naturally reproduce. Whether plant, animal or human body. Pretty difficult to reproduce when you castrate the reproductive system and rely on synthetic chemicals to keep the body in a fight against nature within just to keep going. And it all started with a stupid idea and stupid questions to the most vulnerable, our children and adults who are already mentally torn within.
People have wondered for a long time what came first, the chicken or the egg? The answer is the idea and that thought came from the Mind of God, the Invisible author of Life.
Gosh Kristina, you are so “ peaceful within”.
Very insightful and God honoring! Well done Katrina!
The “alphabet mafia” is at it again. Claiming that they are victims and in their imagination accusing us of oppressing them. That is called communism or Marxism and it comes under many different labels including “progressive.” Governor Dunleavy is surrounded by moderates who give him bad advice. We tried to meet with him up here in Fairbanks but he did not come through. Leaders like Dunleavy can be insulated against us by whom he uses as advisors. He could be powerful if he would stand up to all the confusion he is surrounded by.
God bless you Jon and Ruth. Common sense comments are always brought forth from you! As far as dunleavy, he is indeed surrounded by bad and evil advisers. This is his own doing! Multiple people have tried to convince him Ann Zinc is dangerous and has to go! He stubbornly refuses! I had hoped that when I worked diligently to get him into office that he would fight on our behalf! What we got was another unneeded enemy of the people! This can’t continue, and now is the time to address him in mass and break his protected bubble with protests, loud voices, in front of the capital building, etc. wherever it is legal to bring a tingle of sobriety back to his conscience! He is responsible for much of the chaos in this state! As Sally Duncan state s accurately! “ COURAGEOUS “ people are needed now!
What’s next? Classes on infanticide? Or have they evolved to that stage already? I’ll pray for them all, they need a moral compass
WE ARE THE VICTIMS NOT THE OPPRESSORS because we are forced to put up with this lunacy from the so-called colleges which are oppressing us and our children and communities>
Oh sniff Ewing. You Christians have made bank playing the victim card over the centuries. I guess it works for awhile. I could counter that you right wing Christian nationalists are oppressing me since you want to ban books but not machine guns, take away a woman’s health care autonomy (see Texas), and install religion in US government.
But I’m not a victim. I’m just pissed.
Your bitter roots are showing! Time to go back to your hair dresser and again get your temporary makeover!
I couldn’t send my kids there.
Things are slowly turning and we are getting more and more wins for humanity. Here’s a heartwarming video of “American players sing the Star Spangled Banner after defeating Sweden in Sweden at the U20 Junior Championship” (don’t need telegram account to view).
https://t.me/SGTnewsNetwork/58462
When the pronoun “they” is randomly exchanged with he or she we are left with a “Tower of Babel” state of confusion. We will not know when someone speaks in singular or plural. I understand they have contrived entirely new pronouns such as ze zir and zem which are actually less confusine. So why are they persisting in trying to confuse everyone by re-purposing they/them as both singular and plural? Never before has our language given people a choice of “their pronouns;” that is what proper names are for. Is this another topic of argument to keep us distracted from truly important matters.