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Suzanne's avatar

Thank you for this. Yikes, this is alarming, especially when you multiply it (as we can assume it is multiplied) across university campuses, university health services, university medical schools. I encourage parents who are part of online parent groups at their kids' universities to share this and speak out, as many kids head back to college this month. And find ways to speak to your college-aged kids about how misguided and dangerous this is.

Can this article be offered in front of the paywall for sharing?

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Colin Wright's avatar

The paywall will be lifted in 2 weeks, but you can forward the email containing the piece to anyone.

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Suzanne's avatar

Thanks - sharing with Yale parents now.

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Gerda Ho's avatar

This is so disturbing! A college like Yale spreading such rubbish! There seems to be no end to the gender crap thrown around polluting our country!

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BeadleBlog's avatar

We are clearly stuck in an episode of The Twilight Zone.

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Linoak's avatar

Peak insanity. Is no one in higher education at captured schools capable of rational thought anymore?

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Ute Heggen's avatar

As a tranes widow, ex-wife but once married for 16 years to a man who now claims he's the mother of our children, I attest to the high frequency of illegal substance abuse and alcohol consumption in the category of men who crossdress because they have an ideation that they belong to the opposite sex. With 47 trans widows' experiences documented in my survey, 20 Questions to Ask a Trans Widow, there's an incidence of over-consumption of alcohol or cocaine or other illegal drugs in this group. Drag shows are known places of high cocaine consumption, to the point where some 'queens' put a coke-snorting shtick into their performances. This has been done at shows where children were present. Several of us report getting beaten up when crossdressing husband came home drunk. The locales favored by crossdressers are very often bars with an alphabet-friendly reputation. I had it in writing, in my then-husband's 3 crossdressing diaries. The medical/mental health professionals 'assisting' this delusion usually don't ask about these habits, and operate on the assumption that the addictions will disappear after "transition."

uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com

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Gerda Ho's avatar

It’s disturbing, disgusting, and also just lying , lying lying! What sort of person or persons have captured Yale’s culture? They’re probably DEI people reaping big bucks! They need to DIE .

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Nancy Robertson's avatar

Larry Fink and Soros are having the time of their lives. Boola Boola.

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for the kids's avatar

Well, Yale has provided a ton of misinformation in the medical school too- they are providing witnesses for many lawsuits and incorrect statements.....it's amazing. These are loaded with errors as are papers which rely on them. https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/new-report-refutes-flawed-science-texas-and-alabama-transgender-legal-actions

Yale. Wow.

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Suzanne's avatar

Yes, and if we're compiling instances of "gender ideology capture at the Ivies", here's one of Harvard's recent, and alarming, contributions - from June at the School of Public Health:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbroz0CQ0H8

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Sufeitzy's avatar

Another example where a factual substitution of “sex” for the fictional “gender” results in instant clarification; along with the elimination of “cisgender” and “transgender”. It’s effortless. We should really begin writing these kinds of institutions to stop living in fantasy land. The reality of gender is that in reality gender doesn’t exist. Has the same material reality as ghost or pixie.

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TrackerNeil's avatar

Thanks for this.

Yale's position reminds me of a "Simpsons" episode, in which something important hangs on people with Simpson DNA. Lisa points out that Marge, being a Bouvier, lacks this, but Marge insists, "Oh, no...when I took your father's name, I took everything." So Yale is using Marge Simpson logic.

Isn't Yale supposed to be full of smart people?

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Suzanne's avatar

FWIW, here's the part of Yale, the Alcohol and Other Drugs Harm Reduction Initiative, that puts out the "Work Hard, Play Smart" module. You can reach out to them here:

AODHRI is funded out of the President’s Office and has been in existence roughly since August 2011 and under its current name since January 2013. You can contact AODHRI anytime at aodhri@yale.edu.

If you've any affiliation to Yale, perhaps write in and ask about it. I don't, but I have anyway. They will likely not respond to me, but they might respond to a current parent or an alum.

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Lisa's avatar

Perhaps this is an Orwellian acknowledgement that the girls on campus who are pretending to be boys actually have an alcohol tolerance that is lower than their natal (actual) male peers? Just like we I guess need to say that someone with a male designation on their drivers license might be pregnant when they show up in the ER after a car accident. I'm so sick of all of this.

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Bluestocking's avatar

Trans women have male bodies, that is XY chromosomes. Trans men have female bodies, XX chromosomes. No amount of transition and/or body manipulation changes this. Yale is correct here.

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Linoak's avatar

“Yet regarding the rate at which alcohol metabolizes in the male and female bodies of people who identify as “trans” or “gender-nonconforming,” Yale claims there’s “not yet solid research.”

Maybe I misinterpreted your comment, but please explain how Yale, who is putting out the dangerous assumption that somehow your *gender identity* affects how your body processes alcohol, is correct here.

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Sandra Pinches's avatar

The only positive effect I can see of the critical theory movement is that it has uncovered the profound level of ignorance hidden under diplomas from top tier universities.

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Eric Coppala's avatar

Follow the science? That was so 2020…

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Matt Osborne's avatar

I think I first encountered this phenomenon in the wild ca. 2019. It is absolutely nuts. Magical literalism.

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David Atkinson's avatar

This is proof that when it comes to gender issues, even the administrators are getting in on the LARPing. Let's all pretend this is true.

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Pedro Frigola's avatar

Ironically I think these types of (pseudo) educational videos will lead people (back) to Reality…Most college students will experimentally figure out how alcohol affects their bodies, (eventually) putting two and two together and getting four.

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