Their petition claims that allowing this person to speak is violence.
The College Fix reports:
NYU radicals protest speaker who wants males out of women’s sports
The chief legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom spoke at New York University Thursday afternoon regarding banning men from women’s sports — but not without leftist students expressing their disapproval via petition and protest.
According to Washington Square News, Jim Campbell’s Federalist Society-sponsored discussion “The 14th Amendment Case for Keeping Sports ‘On the Basis of Sex’” was attended by about 30 NYU law students and centered on the recent U.S. Supreme Court case West Virginia v. B.P.J. which allows states to ban males from participating on female athletic teams.
A student petition, titled “Call on NYU Law to Stop Platforming Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate,” claims the ADF is a “Christian nationalist hate group” and that its stance on keeping men from competing against women is “overt anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.”
The petition invokes NYU’s Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment policy which prohibits “unwelcome contact” “based on…gender and/or gender identity [or] religion” that, to a “reasonable” person, “create[s] an intimidating, hostile, or offensive academic or residential environment…”
Allowing Campbell to speak amounts to “a tacit endorsement of discrimination and violence against LGBTQ+ people and students,” the petition reads.
The petition also had demanded that NYU Law cancel Campbell’s talk, to “commit to not platforming transphobic and anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech on campus,” and “ensur[e] the safety of transgender and LGBTQ+ students.”
Various NYU students expressed displeasure with the law school, the spokesperson of which noted the school “regularly schedule speakers who represent a broad range of viewpoints on matters of law and policy.”
Third-year law student Yuri Ceriale told WSN the law school “want[s] to welcome any opinion on campus as valid,” but that the “‘valid opinion’ that they have is that queer people are not real — it should be fixed and should not exist.”
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