Left-wing Lunacy

Just when you think the woke left has reached peak lunacy, it somehow manages to outdo itself.  The latest example involves St. Philip’s College, a historically black community college in San Antonio, Texas.

For more than 20 years, Professor Johnson Varkey has taught biology, human anatomy and physiology at St. Philip’s College.  But last November, as he was teaching a class on human anatomy, four students walked out in protest. 

What did Professor Varkey say that so outraged these students? He told them, as he has told students every year, that our sex as male and female is determined by our individual X and Y chromosomes. 

For that “heresy,” students accused Dr. Varkey of “religious preaching” and “discriminatory comments about homosexuals and transgender individuals.”  Not long after that, St. Philip’s College fired Dr. Varkey.

For years, Dr. Varkey has taught his students the same thing.  For years, he has “followed the science.”  But now, his teaching is suddenly a huge controversy.  Our friends at First Liberty are in court fighting to help Dr. Varkey get his job back. 

This isn’t just a transgender issue.  It’s bigger than that. It’s another example of how the left exploits, abuses and manipulates science and demands that reality must bend in order to advance its radical agenda. 

On climate change and global warming, the left has made it impossible for any professor or scientific journal to raise any questions about global warming or to what degree climate change is caused by human activity.

During COVID, we were confronted with a new virus, and there were competing scientific claims about the origins of the disease and what were best practices to stop its spread.  But the left did not want that debate, and it did everything to shut debate down. 

Decisions were made that advanced the left’s policy and political goals.  If you questioned their assertions, you were ostracized and called a “bigot.”  In some states, if you refused to follow the left’s dictates, you lost your job or faced fines meant to bankrupt you.

But when it was all over, we learned that the censored “minority opinion” was correct and that so much of what we were told was “settled science” was a lie.  (Here, here and here.)

Now we see the same thing happening on transgenderism.