According to Campus Reform, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I) will host a ‘Big Ten Trans Research Symposium’ next semester, which highlights papers from trans studies and scholars affiliated with Big Ten institutions.
“The University of Oregon Division of Graduate Studies promoted the symposium on Instagram and announced the event will take place on March 27 and 28.”
As stated in their paper submission form, they invite “proposals from scholars and students from all disciplines and interdisciplines whose research meaningfully engages trans studies.”
If this wasn’t sick enough, they also seek to fight “authoritarian efforts” to “eradicate trans life.”
The submission form also states, “This symposium is part of a three-year project funded by the Big Ten Academic Alliance to strengthen intellectual and pedagogical networks in trans studies across the Big Ten.”
As early as 2024, the Big Ten Academic Alliance pledged $30,000 in grants to help. er studies” across campuses affiliated with the Big 10, and this is found on the build “transgender Illinois.
“Toby Beauchamp, chair of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the university, teamed up with the University of Minnesota to apply for the grant.”
“As a tenured trans studies scholar now, I am thrilled that this grant enables me to facilitate the kind of robust intellectual and pedagogical community that I often wished for earlier in my career,” Beauchamp said, according to a U of I webpage.
This idea and investment in Trans studies is clearly an affront to true academic studies and is part of a broader liberal effort to indoctrinate university students.
“Trans studies today is a dynamic field, growing rapidly even as its interventions and practitioners are increasingly under threat.”
“By centering trans frameworks and examining how the dominant frame of binary gender is inscribed in the practices of all academic fields, trans studies broadly transforms the stakes of knowledge production,” the symposium submission form continues.
This is not the first such program.
In March Boston University hosted “Pre and Early Modern Trans Studies Symposium.”
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