Georgetown University

Georgetown University's School of Medicine is teaching its students to administer puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors, an investigation by The Spectator reveals. Medical students were told in a 2021 pre-clinical course that the "only way to help" many transgender people is to "'fix' their bodies" through medical intervention. The course also falsely claimed that puberty blockers are "fully reversible." Georgetown University did not return a request for comment. First year medical students at Georgetown are required to take a course on Human Sexuality, which is part of a foundational block on the reproductive system. In an iteration of this course last year, students were greeted with a guest lecture on "Transgender Health Care" by Dr. David S. Reitman.

Georgetown University, my alma mater, informed alumni this week that they will require Covid-19 vaccines and booster shots for attendees of the upcoming reunion celebration for the classes of 1970, 1971, 2015 and 2016. I sent the following letter to the Office of Alumni Relations to share my outrage at this policy, which I've reprinted below: To whom it may concern, My name is Amber Athey and I am a graduate of the College, Class of 2016. I am writing to express my deep disappointment and concern that Georgetown will be requiring all attendees of its fifth and fiftieth reunion celebration to have received a Covid-19 vaccine and booster shot. It is unacceptable that the university will prevent unvaccinated and unboosted alumni from reuniting with their classmates.

Georgetown University announced Tuesday that it is canceling its fall homecoming festivities 'out of an abundance of caution' due to the spread of the delta variant of COVID-19. To my alma mater I say: trust the science — give us back our homecoming. A college campus, particularly Georgetown, is one of the safest places in the country to be if you are worried about the pandemic. Students, faculty and staff were required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine before they were allowed to step on campus this fall. The data tells us that the vast majority of hospitalizations and nearly every death from the coronavirus is among the unvaccinated.

For a thousand years, Western universities were the champions and guardians of reason. Now, they know better. Such is the lesson from the sorry tale of Georgetown University Law Center professor Sandra Sellers, whose career abruptly ceased to exist Thursday for the crime of being able to observe patterns. Of course, Sellers’s remarks aren’t a shocking revelation. They’re common sense. Georgetown proudly maintains an 'Office of Affirmative Action Programs'. What is affirmative action, if not a pledge to admit less-qualified students for identity reasons, even if it means watching them struggle in class? Any poor soul who has hit the rock bottom of applying to law school knows that 'Under-Represented Minority' (URM) status is a boon for law school applications.

Undergraduates at Georgetown University have voted to pay reparations to descendants of slaves the school once owned. Meanwhile, Democratic candidates for the 2020 US presidential nomination unanimously support creating a commission to study slavery’s impact on African Americans, with a reparations program as a possible outcome. These are the latest victories of an international movement for reparations which, despite its flawed and misguided justifications, continues to grow. Reparations means compensation from Western European and American governments for the systems of African chattel slavery once practiced throughout the Americas. Campaigners also cite post-slavery racial injustices against ‘Afro-descendants’, and the colonization and genocide of Amerindian peoples.