UT Southwestern teaches med students that 'gender is independent of physical structure, chromosomes, or genes'
Gender is a 'psychological, social, and cultural construct, including self-identification,' the university teaches
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Documents obtained by Fox News Digital show that University of Texas Southwestern medical students are being taught that gender is independent of physical structure.
Fox News Digital obtained the documents via a FOIA request from Do No Harm, a national association of medical professionals that combats "woke" activism in the healthcare system.
According to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Human Structure curriculum, they "explicitly acknowledge the differentiation between the terms sex and gender."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"The latter is a psychological, social, and cultural construct, including self-identification. Gender is independent of physical structure, chromosomes, or genes," curriculum materials read.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Human Structure curriculum "explicitly acknowledge the differentiation between the terms sex and gender." (Justine Rodriguez)
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Human Structure curriculum does teach in their Sex and Gender course the anatomy of the sexual organs in a binary manner. They define anatomical sex as the physical structure including chromosomes, genes, and products "as the most frequent anatomical variants traditionally termed male and female."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}However, they added, "We are aware that there are anatomical variants that do not correspond to either of these so-called 'typical male’ or ‘typical female’ anatomical variants of sex."
A video on the Human Structure Development of the Urogenital System shows the speaker refers to the "typical male" and "typical female" sex organs as the "two extreme manifestations of the sex spectrum."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Fox News Digital obtained the documents via FOIA request from Do No Harm, a national association of medical professionals that combats "woke" activism in the healthcare system. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
It also introduces that students will learn in more depth about intersex individuals and the continuum of the sex spectrum.
"As for other disorders and birth defects, disorders of sex differentiation should be briefly mentioned here. This is a whole complex of disorders in which the composition of sex chromosomes, internal genitalia, and external genitalia does not match or is ambiguous."
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Fox News Digital recently reported on a similar curriculum material being adopted at another academic institution in Texas. A Texas school district offers a course that teaches students to use "gender-neutral" language when describing jobs in order to be more inclusive.
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The Judson Independent School District [JISD] told Fox News Digital that students are taught about "gender-neutral" language in a "Women and Gender Studies" course.
One activity called "Gender Language," on page 11 of the "Gender Equity Booklet," instructs students to consider words used to describe occupations, gives them a list of examples, and asks them to "think of ways you would change these titles to make them more gender fair or neutral." For example, the course gave students a list of job titles and phrases such as "mailman," "policeman," "woman’s institution" and "sportsmanship," and asked them to take "man" out to make the terms "bias-free."