Science has become meaningless if a biology teacher can be fired for teaching standard lessons on basic genetics. Males of the human species have a genetic XX configuration in their 23rd pair of chromosomes. Females XY. Johnson Varkey has been teaching that same lesson at St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas for 20 years. When four liberally enlightened students stormed out of his class with hurt feelings, Varkey found himself suddenly out of a job. Next on the agenda is declaring Pi equal to 3. All that messy stuff after the decimal point only confuses modern engineers. That’s why our fancy new bridges keep collapsing, like that pedestrian span in Florida which was self-cleaning, had wi-fi and gathering nooks. What it didn’t have was support cables.
Biology not inclusive
In modern biology, determining the sex of an individual based on their genetic profile is considered “religious preaching.” That’s because nobody who’s in charge actually knows how to understand words trapped in books, like insects in amber. Those who still know how to decode the secrets are rapidly becoming extinct. The rest of the human race will follow along soon, since they seem to forget how to breed.
Gender and sex are obviously two separate things but those who don’t know which bathroom to use continue to insist that DNA has nothing to do with it. It’s not a university but St. Philip’s College does bestow degrees as a “community college.” The San Antonio, Texas based center of higher education named after a Catholic Saint doesn’t want to teach truth, science or fact. Especially when it also has religious overtones.
The First Liberty Institute, a Texas-based nonprofit Christian conservative law firm, came to the terminated teacher’s rescue. They aren’t suing the college. Not yet. Last week, they “sent a letter to the school on behalf of the veteran educator and demanded his reinstatement.”
Biology teacher fired for teaching about X & Y chromosomes . Seems biological science has been homophobic all this time🤡https://t.co/f48dQDotBi
— Nancy (@sooo_nance) June 27, 2023
The college, they noted, “fired him for teaching basic and widely accepted concepts of biology. We’re asking the college to immediately reinstate Dr. Varkey to his position and clear his record of any wrongdoing.” If not, then they’ll sue.
Holding the title of adjunct professor, Varkey has “taught human anatomy and physiology to more than 1,500 students since 2003.” He never had a single complaint. “During Dr. Varkey’s 20-year employment as a biology professor at St. Philip’s College, he consistently received exemplary performance reviews and was never subject to discipline. Throughout that time, he never discussed with any student his personal views—religious or otherwise—on human gender or sexuality.”
All it took was four offended students from a single class and he was canned. They didn’t like what he had to say so they had him silenced. What will the next teacher of that subject have to talk about? How can the students move on to more complicated things, which lead to careers in places like the medical profession, if they can’t emotionally cope with the basics.
Students storm out
Obviously the college considers the opinions of the students to be much more valuable than the work of their faculty. As the lawyers point out, “four students stormed out of the lecture hall.” It happened when Varkey “stated, consistent with his study of human biology and religious beliefs, that sex was determined by chromosomes X and Y.”
“In two decades of teaching these basic, unremarkable concepts, no other students complained.” That was then, this is now and it’s “pride month.”
Back in January, Dr. Varkey was handed a “Notice of Discipline and Termination of Employment and Contract letter stating that the school ‘received numerous complaints‘ about his ‘religious preaching, discriminatory comments about homosexuals and transgender individuals, anti-abortion rhetoric, and misogynistic banter.‘” Which came straight from the textbook, he quickly pushed back.
Biology Teacher of the Year suspended for teaching Biology!! @GlendaleUSD Needs to overhauled to rid the board of trans ideology being affirmed & taught in our schools! https://t.co/RFxF2tuI6h— Shannon McNally (@politicogirl770) June 25, 2023
“When decisionmakers at St. Philip’s College terminated Dr. Varkey because of his religious beliefs and classroom statements about biology, they violated several federal and state laws, including the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”
Belief that possessing a Y chromosome makes you biologically female is heresy to the modern indoctrination system. Teaching such inflammatory bigotry “pushed beyond the bounds of academic freedom with [his] personal opinions that were offensive to many individuals in the classroom.” The way the lawyers put it, “in other words, he was fired for teaching true and widely accepted concepts. The statements he made are supported by research and consistent with his professional experience and education.”
Not only that, he teaches biology, not religion and that never entered his classroom, despite the allegations. He may be a devout Christian who “volunteers as an associate pastor at his church and hosts a Bible-teaching radio ministry” but he does that outside the classroom.
