The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) published its Standards of Care 8 (SOC 8) seeking to: Provide clinical guidance for health professionals to assist transsexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming people with safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort with their gendered selves, in order to maximize their overall health, psychological well-being,…
According to an opinion piece in the Cougar Chronicle from BYU student Garrett Hostetter, a debate on the Dobbs decision was canceled for Fall of 2022 at the BYU Law School. Hostetter wrote on April 11 of this year, “I was texted that word: Canceled.” However, this is not the only account of the incident.…
A version of Coyne’s class presentation was made available on Learning Suite without pictures of Coyne’s son, and it contained the following: When discussing the need to investigate scientific evidence behind certain inclinations, Dr. Coyne cited a chart attempting to show why the gender binary is incorrect. The following picture was used in the presentation…
Editor’s note: The reason for this report remains the same as the first – to seek the truth. This article focuses strictly on the veracity of Coyne’s research and the conclusions of her study. We believe various concepts in the study directly contradict science and eternal truth. We also address the petition’s claims about the Chronicle. …
Not all recent conservative BYU speakers have been canceled. Rob Jenkins, a father of BYU alumni and professor of Georgia State University, spoke to the BYU Tocqueville Society on April 7. Jenkins, who has written at the Daily Wire, Town Hall, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, spoke to BYU students about the dangers 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…
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…
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…
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…