Professors who are critical of “gender-affirming care” should be fired and lose their academic titles, a Harvard University professor and faculty chair recently said.
“There’s a particular place in hell for academics who use their academic expertise and power to distort and do violence to people in the world,” Professor Timothy McCarthy told Washington Square News. The New York University student newspaper interviewed McCarthy for his thoughts about two professors at the school who are affiliated with groups that are critical of surgical and chemical interventions for gender dysphoria.
Two medical advocacy groups, including one criticized by McCarthy, told The College Fix the professor’s “approach would suppress valid scientific inquiries to enforce ideological alignment” and result in “disastrous consequences for the kids caught up in this mess.”
McCarthy told WSN that any professor, whether at Harvard or elsewhere, who is a member of organizations that are critical of “gender-affirming” medical treatments, including Therapy First and Genspect, should face dismissal.
The professor “said that while a level of suspicion and inquiry into medical practices is healthy, the purpose of questioning the validity of gender-affirming care is oftentimes intended to ..."
