Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic University in the US, is facing criticism for hiring a transgender studies professor for its Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Department of English. Critics, including a pro-life Catholic group, argue that the position is inappropriate for a Catholic institution, claiming it contradicts Catholic teaching on gender and biology.
This is further proof that the academic left is flat-out ignoring the lessons of the 2024 election and just doing what they want to do.Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic University in the United States, is hiring a transgender studies professor for its Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Department of English, prompting some criticism.is for an “Assistant Professor in Transgender Studies Approaches to Literatures, Media, and Cultures of the Global South.
“Georgetown has been heading away from God for some time,” he said, adding that a transgender studies professor would “twist” biology.in an interview that “it is sinful to offer a program that directly offends God and goes against His teaching.” He said that gender ideology contradicts Catholicism “because Catholic teaching is clear: God created us male and female. That reality is good and self-evident. Therefore, the denial of one’s biological sex assigned by God is morally wrong. … A woman cannot claim she is a man, and a man cannot claim he is a woman.”
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