The course description states the class will explore the “deep histories of transgender embodiment by exploring literary, historical, medical, and religious texts from the Middle Ages.”
A full-time graduate student at BU, who signs up for the three-hour weekly class, is paying the Arts and Sciences Department $33,300 a semester or, more likely, racking up student loan debt for a master's degree.
“It's no surprise that the same university that hired Ibram Kendi also has a nonsense course,” Matt Lamb, editor of The College Fix, tells AFN.
Kendi (pictured at right) is the black scholar whose best-selling “How to be an Antiracist” book won him an antiracist “research center” at Boston University. The university later announced it was laying off half the staff due to mismanagement of funds and employee complaints about Kendi.
Citing concern about "long-term sustainability," Boston University similarly announced in November it is eliminating one dozen PhD programs in philosophy, history, and English.
The university was forced to cut courses and costs after it caved to a "historic" new union contract with graduate school student workers last fall.
The famous public university, founded by Methodists in the 1800s, has approximately 37,500 students. It currently accepts only about 15% of its applicants.
Professor calls himself 'trans literary scholar'
According to the university website, the person teaching “Medieval Trans Studies” is assistant professor Micah Goodrich. The professor calls himself a “trans literary scholar” and refers to himself with illogical “they” pronouns.
The College Fix reported on the transgender-based BU course in a story that blasted the university for allowing a professor to twist the history of the Middle Ages for his own warped views.
“In the Middle Ages there was no rational doubt that humans were created only male and female,” Adam Kissel, an education analyst at The Heritage Foundation, told the Fix.
“The people knew that freaks of nature were abnormal,” Kissel also said.
Goodrich’s course description, however, says students will read about “alchemical hermaphrodites, genderfluid angels, Ethiopian eunuchs, trans saints, sex workers, and genderqueer monks.”
Lamb, who is Catholic, tells AFN he is offended the course refers to saints and monks that way.
“I think we can say conclusively,” he says, “that there has never been either of those."
