Sex and Gender – The College Fix

New study proves reality: Biological sex is a huge factor in sports performance

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 23:03:22 +0000

What would we do without studies? Despite a growing trend of downplaying biology’s significance in athletic performance, a recent study — refreshingly — shows what should be obvious: Biological men are stronger and faster than biological women. The study “Performance of non-binary athletes in mass-participation running events” by two U.K. university scholars and an independent researcher found…

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Philly university ordered to pay $15M to doctor for anti-male bias in Title IX case

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 05:02:34 +0000

Male doctor and female subordinate each opened Title IX investigations A Philadelphia university must pay $15 million to a male doctor after a jury found it had discriminated against him based on gender in a Title IX investigation. On Dec. 11, a jury entered the judgment against Thomas Jefferson University based on its decision in favor of the plaintiff, former Rothman Orthopaedic Institute…

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Young men just more interested in STEM fields, poll finds

Micaiah Bilger - Assistant Editor — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 05:18:43 +0000

Gender gap exists despite equal opportunities, encouragement, Gallup says Young men are more interested in science and technology careers than young women even though both equally report receiving opportunities and encouragement to enter STEM fields, a new Gallup survey found. The poll by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation found that 85 percent of young men ages 12 to 26 are interested in…

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Economist details backlash for saying kids need two parents

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 05:02:19 +0000

‘It worries me deeply that there are right answers and there are wrong answers among academics,’ professor said Economist Melissa Kearney has the research to back up a common-sense conclusion: on average, children raised by married parents have better life outcomes than children raised by a single mother or father. Kearney (pictured) is a professor at the University of Maryland…

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Gender-transition critic speaks at Syracuse despite cancel attempts by LGBTQ ‘experts’

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 16:12:27 +0000

‘Her perspective is directly contributing to harm for the transgender community’ Despite attempts by LGBTQ “experts” and students to cancel her appearance at Syracuse University, gender therapist Sara Stockton spoke Wednesday at an event sponsored by the College Republicans. According to the student paper The Daily Orange, Stockton used to be a proponent of so-called “gender-affirming care”…

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Scholars exploring gender disparities forget about biology, free will

Micaiah Bilger - Assistant Editor — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 05:15:51 +0000

Time to get back to basics: Men and women are different Two recent studies set out to discover why huge gender disparities exist among students who play chess and choose to study philosophy. Although they were separate studies by different researchers, both concluded that misconceptions about “brilliance” are what keep women from participating. But there is another factor that neither set…

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Chess wrongly perceived as a ‘brilliance’ game, leaving girls out: NYU study

Emily Rosecrans - Clemson University — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 05:01:21 +0000

Researchers say coaches, parents don’t recognize own biases against girls Fewer girls play chess competitively because their own parents and coaches hold biases about skills such as “brilliance” that they connect to male players, according to a new study out of New York University. The researchers said their study, published last month in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, provides “the…

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‘Let’s Talk About Sex’: Free speech group hosts canceled all-female panel affirming biology

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 05:02:22 +0000

Two professional anthropology associations had canceled the panel, accusing scholars of ‘transphobia’ An all-women panel on biological sex as a basic research category, canceled by the anthropology academic establishment, drew hundreds of viewers when an educational freedom association recently hosted it online. “Let’s Talk About Sex Baby: Why Biological Sex Remains a Necessary Analytic…

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Bowdoin College hosts Pride Prom to combat ‘gendered, heteronormative’ high school tradition

Micaiah Bilger - Assistant Editor — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 23:58:39 +0000

Billed as a night for LGBTQ students to be ‘unapologetically you’ Bowdoin College hosted its first Pride Prom over the weekend, welcoming students to dance with a drag queen and dress in “whatever makes your queer (and ally) selves happy.” A project of Natalie Turrin, the new leader of the Maine college’s Sexuality, Women and Gender Center, the event included drag queen host Gigi Gabor and…

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Trans-advocate professor doesn’t understand ‘evidence-based medicine,’ scholar says

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:11:07 +0000

The ACLU paid Jack Turban $400 per hour to testify in support of child transgender procedures A medical professor and paid expert witness for a transgender advocacy seems to lack knowledge of principles of evidence-based medicine, according to one researcher and scholar. Child and adolescent psychiatry professor Dr. Jack Turban miscategorized the fundamental scientific concept of “systemic…

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