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In another sign of how unjust modern academia has become, specious “misgendering” accusations now put a Pace Law School student’s entire future at risk.
Crazier still, the charges turn on what should be completely protected speech: an after-hours panel discussion last month hosted by the decidedly un-woke Federalist Society, focused on Prop 1 and women’s sports.
Third-year law student Houston Porter, 28, stands accused of pointing “aggressively” at a transgender student and “misgendering” them as angry wokists dragged the discussion into chaos.
Supposedly, that amounts to “sex-based discrimination” under Title IX, a federal law covering educational institutions that receive federal funding.
Yet the known facts don’t seem to even justify a hearing: Porter, supported by other witnesses, denies pointing at or “purposefully” referring to any student “as a man in front of classmates, law school faculty and administrators, and guests,” as his accuser alleges.
Yet he’s at risk of expulsion or suspension — and getting disqualified from passing the bar under a “morals” clause.
Three years of his life, and all the expense and effort of a law-school education, destroyed over a disagreement.
Ironically, this weaponization of anti-discrimination statutes is one of the main things that critics of Prop 1 — which would codify gender identity and gender expression as protected classes in New York’s Constitution — have warned against.
If Pace University lets this outrage play out, it can say goodbye to any open dissent from the far-left project, and to any future other than as a finishing school for social-justice warriors.
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