On Thursday, March 30, a BYU professor revealed to her SFL200 “The Eternal Family” class that her eight-year-old son was “diagnosed with gender dysphoria” after taking him to a professional as he would frequently play with Barbies and dress in girls’ clothes. According to our sources, throughout the class, Professor Sarah Coyne presented photos of…
Yesterday, April 11, the Chronicle broke a story of the BYU Law School recently canceling an event with Rick Duncan who spoke at the school a year before. [READ: BYU Cancels Debate Event on Abortion: Beams before Motes] Ed Whelan, the author of the National Review article about the J. Reuben Clark Law School’s cancellation…
SEE ADDTIONAL UPDATE HERE: Complaints of ‘disrespectful’ Speaker Used to Cancel Abortion Debate Appear Unfounded The recent petition to ban Elder Holland from speaking at Southern Utah University’s Commencement ceremony has once again sparked a debate over cancel culture throughout the Wasatch front. This attempt to cancel Elder Holland perhaps carries an extra dose of…
The BYU official policy of Political Neutrality states, “Residents of university housing may display partisan political signs in their apartment windows.” This rule means that individuals living in On-Campus housing have freedom to show support to any particular candidate or ideology without facing consequences from the University so long as the decorations are displayed from…
Elder Holland conducted what he said would be an “unusual” devotional “with a twist” on Tuesday March 21, 2023. Elder Holland began by stating the devotional was “essentially a business meeting of the BYU board of trustees.” He indicated that Russel M. Nelson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Chairman…
The BYU Anti-racism club recently held a speaking event titled, “We Can’t Belong Ourselves: Creation of Community Precedes a Sense of Belonging,” which was advertised on their Instagram. The event featured Jacob Rugh, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at BYU, and Anthony Bates, the managing director of the BYU Sorensen Center for…
Intermountain healthcare recently added a presentation video on cross-sex hormone therapy to its YouTube videos under the Project ECHO channel. The presenter, Rixt Luikenaar, said that cross sex testosterone therapy does not cause infertility in women who have started periods. Luikenaar also added, “[W]e don’t know why” PCOS is at a 50% rate in women…
Over the 2022-23 school year, the BYU Office of Civic Engagement (OCE) Instagram account has drawn concern from BYU students. The (OCE) website states their mission is “to provide students and faculty with the appropriate skills and meaningful opportunities to become engaged in their respective communities. We seek to promote civic service and to encourage…
BYU, as part of its antiracism project started in 2020, has created a new antiracism database. The goal of their project, as stated on the website, is to “promote and support antiracist actions at BYU to create a more inclusive, loving, safe, Christlike, Zion campus.” The antiracist database provides a searchable catalog of materials that…
During a February 14 presentation on gender surgery, a doctor associated with Intermountain Healthcare commented that he has performed top surgery on minors. Primary Children’s Hospital (PCH), a part of the Intermountain Healthcare (Intermountain) system, also appears to be limiting information about its adolescent gender clinic on its website, referring to it only as the…