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Philosopher: Missed Class to Get an Abortion? Not Excused.

A philosophy professor and a finance professor at the University of Texas at Austin have joined with the state in a lawsuit against the Federal government, particularly the US Department of Education’s “Final Rule” regarding the interpretation of Title IX, which aims to prevent “discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.” The professors are Daniel Bonevac and John Hatfield. The lawsuit says that with the Final Rule the Federal government oversteps its authority by requiring “students and teachers to, for example, use someone’s ‘preferred pronouns'” and by “reinterpreting the word ‘sex’ to include ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity.'” It also aims to protect the plaintiffs’ rights to treat student absences from class for the purposes of getting an abortion as unexcused, to regulate the clothing their teaching assistants wear, and to decline to hire as teaching assistants students who have received abortion pharmaceuticals in the mail. In a section of the lawsuit (reproduced below), Professors Bonevac and Hatfield describe ways they plan to behave that they believe are rendered illegal by the Final Rule interpretation of Title IX—hence the lawsuit. These include: Not honoring any student’s demands to be addressed by the singular pronoun “they”. (“I will not violate the rules of grammar or make a fool of myself to accommodate a student’s delusional beliefs.”) Not allowing his teaching assistants to teach or otherwise interact with students while wearing clothing traditionally not associated with their genders. Not treating absences to obtain an “illegal abortion” or “purely elective abortion” as an excused absence. (Note that in Texas, abortions are generally illegal with few exceptions.) Not knowingly hiring teaching assistants who have received shipments of “abortion pills and abortion-related paraphernalia”. Here’s the full text of Professor Bonevac’s declaration (Professor Hatfield’s is the same): I, Daniel A. Bonevac, declare as follows: I am over 18 years old and fully competent to make this declaration. I have personal knowledge of the facts stated in this declaration, and all of these facts are true and correct. I am a named plaintiff in this litigation. I am a professor of philosophy of the University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas at Austin is subject to Title IX and..
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