STATEMENT: TITLE IX REGS MEAN STUDENTS LESS LIKELY TO RECEIVE JUSTICE

Today the Department of Education released new Title IX regulations that threaten student free speech and due process rights.

Justice is only possible when hearings are fair for everyone.

So today’s…

Was great to hear a question from Lisa Selin Davis (author of the below editorial) at our debate last night. Thanks for coming out!

If you're curious to hear a bit more from alex byrne & A/Prof Holly Lawford-Smith, watch their just-posted discussion with National Association of Scholars's Scott Turner (@macrotermiteman). Thanks to Alice and Holly for giving extra time out of their days for the chat!
youtube.com/watch?v=mokBif…

A fascinating and rigorous debate on the sex binary and whether it exists went down in Boston tonight. Follow the thread for a link to the video:

It was our pleasure!

Mission accomplished 🙌

Our sex & gender debate is underway! Tune in live here:
youtube.com/watch?v=PoT_ay…

Looking forward to it, MIT Free Speech Alliance! Kudos on raising the level of debate on campus.

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Our debate on sex and gender is today! It's not too late - there are two ways you can watch:
1. Attend in person at MIT's Wong Auditorium! Register here for free:
buff.ly/4csk6fS
2. Tune in to the livestream on our YouTube channel at this link:
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Check out this podcast at Persuasion, in which Yascha Mounk interviews MIT Philosophy Professor Alex Byrne (@byrne_a) about his new book, Trouble With Gender. persuasion.community/p/byrne.

Like what you hear? Then come see Alex in our April 17 debate!
mitfreespeech.org/spring_2024_de…

Our debate on sex and gender, featuring is tomorrow! If you want to watch, here are two ways to do so:

1. Attend in person at MIT's Wong Auditorium! Register here for free:
sloangroups.mit.edu/adamsmithsocie…

2. Tune in to the livestream on our YouTube channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=PoT_ay…

Notable in Boston Globe Opinion today: (bostonglobe.com/2024/04/15/opi…)

'An exhaustive, level-headed 388-page report, commissioned by the National Health Service in England and released last week, warns: 'Polarisation and stifling of debate do nothing to help the young people caught in the…

Alex Byrne and Aaron Kimberly are repping the opposing sides of our debate on sex & gender next Wednesday, but they came together for a discussion of Alex's book 'Trouble With Gender' on the Transparency Podcast, and you can listen to Aaron Kimberly & alex byrne's discussion here:…

Last fall, Prof. Holly Lawford-Smith (A/Prof Holly Lawford-Smith) participated in a 🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ Union debate on, well, debate. The proposition: 'Some discussions will only cause harm.' You can watch it on YouTube here:
youtube.com/watch?v=EWnStY…

And when you're done, you can see her in our…

Peaceful protest on public campuses is protected speech. Disruptive protest and trespassing on private property is not.

The First Amendment doesn’t protect seriously disrupting events on public college campuses, much less at someone’s backyard dinner party.

If you're curious to hear more from Alice Dreger, Ph.D., you can watch the keynote she delivered at FIRE's Faculty Network Conference in 2017:
youtube.com/watch?v=onVV4H…

Want to watch Alice in our debate on April 17? More info below:
members.mitfreespeech.org/Calendar/morei…

MIT Professor Alex Byrne on the challenges he (as well as Holly Lawford-Smith) encountered when writing and publishing on gender issues in their field:

'The discussion of sex and gender should have been philosophy’s finest hour, with our profession contributing to the wider…