[Daily Mail where America gets its news] A queer Canadian academic who identifies as trans and is a parent to three non-binary children, was torched online after wanting to be called an absurd name.
The Assistant Professor of Queer Studies in Education at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan asked that others use the name j wallace skelton in lieu of third-person pronouns.
Skelton, who has a PhD in Education,
| …so she must have studied early child development…. |
noted on Facebook that the name should be spelled with lowercase letters - as he reiterated that he gave birth to three children who identify as nonbinary and queer.
| And that, my dears, is proof of child abuse. How could a baby know such a thing about itself? Children don’t think in terms of sexuality until they approach puberty when allowed to develop normally. Before all they know is the anatomy: boys have a p3nis and babies grow in the bellies of grown up girls. |
'When you misgender someone, you tell a lie about them and a truth about yourself,' reads Skelton's personal website.
Users online expressed their extreme disapproval, describing the assistant professor as 'sick', 'mentally disturbed', and 'a self-hating woman'.
Skelton, who appears as a man sporting a goatee, began working at the University of Regina in 2022, where he invites students to take courses in queer and trans studies.
The trans activist believes these courses 'invite us to move beyond binaries, and to expect, respect, and celebrate people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.'
'It's about making classrooms safe and welcoming and celebratory for 2SLGBTQ people, refusing to see heterosexuality and cissexuality as normal—heck about refusing the idea of normal,' he added.
'It's about centering the views, experiences, and knowledge of 2SLGBTQ people, and about queering and transing curriculum. For me, it means doing this informed by Queer of Color Critique, Disability Justice, Feminism, and Social Justice.'
Other posts online by Skelton show him pushing the message that 'Education is Political'.
'When people argue that we should “keep politics out of education,” what they mean is that only their politics should inform education,' wrote Skelton.
He notes on his website that his academic work centers on young children and that he is committed to creating queer- and trans-centered spaces.
Skelton's PhD thesis description reads as 'an exploration of the desires of 2SLGBTQ children and children of 2SLGBTQ parents in education, and the desires of their parents.'
In the thesis, he describes himself as 'White, Jewish, fat, not visibly disabled, and not living in poverty.'
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