The CRT to Gender Studies One-Two Punch

Be a Racist or Be a Victim; The Choice is Yours

By

Stephen Schwager and Eddie Speir

American colleges and universities are caught in the grips of mass hysteria. Students genuinely believe their existence, their very lives, are in grave danger. Faculty and administrators pour gasoline on paranoid fires lit by narcissistic victimology, intersectional and gender identitarianism, and the promulgation of flat-out lies.

New College of Florida is not immune to this hysterical social contagion. To listen to the loud utterances of speakers at Board of Trustees meetings and student rallies, to read their open letters and opinion pieces, one would believe the college has been captured by a band of white supremacist fascists who have launched a war of lethality on them.

The truth is that American campuses of higher learning are the most intellectually and physically safe spaces in the history of the world, and minority groups of students are among the most protected. Anyone who says differently is lying and pushing a nefarious agenda. Left-wing ideologues deploy many dishonest strategies to advance these lies, including using Orwellian double-speak, hiding inconvenient truths and facts, and employing Trojan Horses to sneak in stealth dogmas and doctrines.

We are all familiar with the Woke Marxists’ use of Orwellian language. This is a landscape where “words are violence” and “gender-affirming health care” includes the chemical and surgical castration of boys and the genital mutilation, sterilization, and double-mastectomies of girls.

One example of the Trojan Horse strategy is the deployment of Critical Race Theory throughout education. CRT has long been used to divide racial groups into the oppressed (people of color, except successful Asian-Americans, including Indian and Persian-Americans) and their oppressors (whites and those who are classified as “white adjacent”). A primary goal of this insidious, Woke ideology is to disorder, destabilize, and demoralize children and young people. This generates an array of psychological and emotional maladies, including anxiety, self-loathing, and anger.

This also makes vulnerable people, children, and young men and women already struggling to form self-identities easy prey for gender/trans ideologues and activists who stand ready to offer a solution.  Instead of being an oppressor of their peers, you can adopt victim status by becoming an oppressed sexual minority.  You can stop being evil, and instead, you can be good.  All you have to do is adopt a new identity that fits our political framework, i.e., trans, non-binary, intersex, polyamorous, agender, etc. One can’t change their race or ethnicity, but one can select a new sexual identity that places them in a victim class. CRT is used as a club to batter and disorient, gender/trans ideology is offered as a remedy.

Is it any wonder that the number of adolescents identifying as one of these gender/sexual identities exploded by 300% from 2017 to 2021? Or that demand for “gender-affirming surgeries” surged four-fold from 2000 to 2014, fueled by a new acceptance of allowing minors to be castrated, double-mastectomied, and have their genitalia mutilated.

As with almost all terrible Woke ideas, dogmas, doctrines, and policies, these, too, have been nurtured in the Academy. Gender/trans ideology has found its home in Gender Studies courses and programs. For this reason, Gender Studies at NCF, and across campuses in Florida and nationwide, needs to go, just as DEI has gone.

Since the 1400s, sex, and gender have been synonyms. But now the lie that sex and gender are different, that gender is in one’s head and sex is between one’s legs, has taken root. This lie is wreaking havoc among young people emotionally and physically, where irreversible and permanent harm is being done to vulnerable children in the name of health care.

For Wokeism, every grievance is used to build on these mountains of lies and acted upon to re-orient the vulnerable to a left-wing, Marxist political identity. CRT and gender/trans ideology are two of the worst vessels deployed to create Woke adherents. And the ideas behind both are demonstrable lies. For instance, the father of gender/trans ideology, the late sadistic psychiatrist Dr. John Money of Johns Hopkins University, is solely responsible for taking a fringe hypothesis of his – that one’s gender is a tabla rasa at birth and completely unhooked from biological sex – manufacturing “evidence” to support it, and launching what he called a “proved scientific theory” into mainstream healthcare and public consciousness.

The fact that Money performed only a single study on one set of identical twin boys, lied about his findings, sexually abused his young subjects for his own twisted pleasure in a multi-year experiment that would have made Josef Mengele proud, and sold his lies to a gullible public and medical community, has been buried under a further mountain of lies and propaganda. The entire gender/trans medical industry, worth billions of dollars to pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, doctors, therapists, and professors for years to come, is built on this one man’s terrible lies. Wherever John Money’s lies live, and on campuses, they live and thrive in Gender Studies, which has successfully planted its ill seeds throughout other disciplines, especially in the humanities and social sciences, must be removed for the health and well-being of all institutions of learning and society as a whole. 

One final note. First, we strongly encourage those who seek truth and believe truth matters to learn more about Dr. John Money and his monstrous experiment on the twins Bruce and Brian Reimar. Money’s transition of Bruce to Brenda, and his insistence that Brenda never be told “she” was born a boy, ended up destroying the Reimar family and resulted in Brian’s fatal OD in his mid-30s and Bruce-to-Brenda-to-David’s suicide in his late 30s. You will learn that, in fact, Dr. Money not only failed utterly to prove his hypothesis, he demonstrated the exact opposite – gender was intimately and inseparably tied to biological sex. It could not be changed no matter how extreme the physical, emotional, and psychological interventions were. That John Money’s assertion that gender is a social construct apart from sex is a total lie and based on a tragic experiment about which he lied to everyone is a terrible irony considering how much damage it has wrought. Places to start include the BBC’s article “Health Check: The boy who was raised a girl” (https://www.bbc.com/news/health-11814300) and the article “The Tragedy of David Reimar, The Boy Forced To Live As A Girl For A Doctor’s Experiment” (https://allthatsinteresting.com/david-reimer). Interviews with David Reimar as an adult can be found on YouTube. Warning: the interviews and articles are harrowing.