Thu Mar 31, 2022 – 5:50 pm EDT
TOPEKA, Kansas (LifeSiteNews) – Left-wing activists were planning to protest a speech by Daily Wire commentator Michael Knowles at Washburn University this evening after school president Jerry Farley condemned Washburn College Republicans (WCR) for inviting Knowles to campus.
Knowles’ speech, free to the public but in a venue limited to 300 seats, was slated to tackle the ideology of gender fluidity and make the case that men and women are objectively different, which was enough to elicit plans to protest from Washburn leftists who claim this “discriminatory narrative” constitutes “transphobia” and “directly infringes on the safety of Washburn’s transgender and non-binary students and faculty”:
DEAR WU STUDENTS!
if you didn’t already know, a speaker by the name of Michael Knowles will be speaking here at Washburn this Thursday about “ending transgenderism madness”
i along with a large sum of the student body have organized a protest pic.twitter.com/LU2c2DScdu
— #BLM (@sierraljeter) March 29, 2022
i want all students at Washburn to remember that you MATTER and this discriminatory narrative will NEVER and SHOULD never be accepted at Washburn
if you feel unsafe or inadequately protected this week or thursday,
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