ASU Dean Pushing Radical Gender Ideology

Are Faculty Required to Conform to 2SLGBTQIA+ Teaching?

I read an email from a dean of one of ASU’s colleges encouraging faculty to put a “SafeZONE” sign on their office door. The dean claims this will help 2SLGBTQIA+ students know they belong. The dean also says that faculty who make a commitment to being a “SafeZONE Ally” and have this sign on their door will no longer assume heterosexuality but instead will adopt the ideological teaching of the radical gender movement. This dean confuses affirming a specific radical gender ideology with supporting students.

Three problems stand out to me about this email. First, all ASU students should know they are respected and belong, even without a sign on a door. It would be wrong to treat any student as if he/she does not belong or is not respected. And that leads to the second problem . . .

By not posting a sign on the door, the dean implies that the faculty communicate that they do not support all students. The sign becomes a way of judging or identifying faculty as either agreeing to the radical gender ideology being pushed by the 2SLGBTQIA+ movement or not supporting this teaching and, by implication, not supporting all ASU students. Can you see the fallacy? All faculty are required to respect all students. Faculty who post this sign indicate their respect for the 2SLGBTQIA+ students. And therefore, those who do not post a sign do not support all students. This is a common way for the intolerent to identify unwanted dissenters.

Third, why is this specific group singled out for a special sign on office doors? From my own experience, I know that Christians are often belittled in secular university classrooms. Shouldn’t faculty make an extra effort to let Christian students know they are also welcome and belong? And why stop there? Why not a sign for every one of the world’s religions? And each country? And maybe that won’t be specific enough, so why not just list all the names of every ASU student on each faculty’s office door so that each one knows they belong?

The truth is that this is just another way of requiring conformity to radical gender ideology and a not-so-subtle attempt to single out the non-conformists. Remember when college professors took pride in non-conformity? Parents, potential students, and donors, is this the behavior you expect from the dean of a college?