Life is steeped in stereotypes, but one medical man is punching at pigeonholing. Thanks to his speaking out, people in and around Carbondale, Illinois can live less limited by insidious assumption. It's part of the administrator's #Resist-rooted stance.
Video published by Fox News shows Dr. Jerry Kruse elucidating next to a seated panel at Southern Illinois University. Jerry is the dean, provost, and CEO of SIU's School of Medicine. In the clip, he opines on things not merely schoolwide but universal. Jerry is jousting, in essence, with Donald Trump.
On January 20th, the White House issued Executive Order 14168. Taken from its text:
Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong. Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being.
POTUS promised:
[M]y Administration will defend women’s rights and protect freedom of conscience by using clear and accurate language and policies that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.
Fast-forward to footage of Jerry at the podium; he cuts to the crux:
"[Trump's executive orders] and actions -- and the general philosophy that they espouse -- constitute direct attacks on all that is important to us: science, higher education, healthcare."
Sex, as it turns out, is not at all narrow:
"For gender equity, an executive order is titled 'Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.' This...order seeks to narrowly define sex and gender in order to target transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people for mistreatment and discrimination."
Gender ideology, as you're likely aware, updates our understanding of men and women: Select cowboys suffer from uterine cramps, while some cowgirls are sour on saddles 'cause they scrunch up their scrotums. Per pro-gender Jerry, The Donald's dastardly datedness is deafening; let's turn down the stereotypes:
"While the order allegedly attempts to protect women and girls, what it really does is threaten any woman or girl who doesn’t conform to sex-based stereotypes and opens them up to invasion of privacy."
The School of Medicine is avidly anti-assault:
"This is an attack on women, on gender identity, on sexual orientation, and on basic human rights. ... Thankfully, the SIU system stands firm with a strong voice. ... [P]resident Dan Mahoney has stated that we will hold our ground, and that 'the executive actions are antithetical to the values of our institution...'"
It's an interesting idea -- medical ethics oppose assumptions about what Paulas and Peggys are packing in their pants.
Though alluring, however, it's not nearly novel. Training ground for America's doctors is replete with principled positions -- such as one razing the racism of grading.
Consider a literary likening: In 2017, Harvest House Publishers released "Men Are Like Waffles -- Women Are Like Spaghetti: Understanding and Delighting in Your Differences." The book posed that males compartmentalize while females combine all components. If that's true, it might be said that society has undergone a feminine overhaul. Previously, arenas of endeavor operated independently. What was medical, for instance, wasn't also ideological. But presently, wokeness is the noodle that binds.
Spot the spaghetti:
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Back to Dr. Jerry, his school bio affirms an appreciation for mixing medicine and mores:
Dr. Kruse is a student of the interactions of biology and society. ... He has a special interest in cross-cultural and population health to inform effective policies and improve health care systems.
To be clear, the medical school isn't merely against stocking-or-stuffer sexual distinctions. In the video, Jerry protests a panoply of oppression:
"[P]resident Trump...took a number of executive actions in...areas that potentially will have a direct, negative effect on the SIU School of Medicine. These...include...immigration; equity, diversity and inclusion; healthcare programs; nutrition programs; gender identity; global health..."
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It's a lot to defy, but such is the burden of your future physician's alma mater. SIU is poised to meet the need.
Not long ago, everyone had a sex and no one had a gender. And state-funded medical institutions were invested solely in objective science. But it's a new day, and the world is unprecedentedly complex. Social consciousness informs all. In Southern Illinois, ICE is a cold cancer; global health occupies a local school's purview; DEI is a prophylactic priority; and some patients put the "guy" in "gynecology."
Maybe most notably, academic medicine has declared itself the prescription -- for an ailment otherwise known as America's Commander-in-Chief.
-ALEX
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