Media studies department at University of Buffalo falsely accuses Michael Knowles of calling for trans 'genocide'

The University of Buffalo has put Michael Knowles on the curriculum, although not in the way one might think. The Department of Media Study has specifically called out Knowles, political commentator, bookish former theater nerd, family man, for comments he's made about the differences between men and women—namely, that men and women are not interchangeable and one cannot become the other simply through the medical wizardries of surgeries and drugs. He spoke on campus nearly two years ago and they're still super salty about it.

Knowles said that trans ideology "is false" and must be eradicated from public life. But the Department of Media Study, that literally attempts to educate students on how to understand and create media, has decided that he had called for genocide, and it is on that basis that they took this stand. YouTube has even banned him for saying it was "delusional" to think humans can swap sex.

The second paragraph on the landing page for the department reads "The faculty of the Media Study department stand in solidarity with the transgender community and others who have been the target of Michael Knowles’ rhetoric and threats of eradication and genocide." The lambasting of Knowles isn't just about trans and gender ideology, but claims that there are "others" against whom Knowles has threatened genocide. The school is part of the State University of New York system that receives state and federal funding.

“A year and a half after I lectured on campus," Knowles told The Post Millennial, "a public university has devoted the second paragraph of an academic homepage to denouncing me for stating—in a different speech at a different location more than two years ago—that men and women are different. However much you think American higher education has degraded, the reality is many times worse."

The denunciation of Knowles ont he site comes after an opening salvo discussing the "award-winning, internationally-active faculty who continue to probe media and its social implications in the widest context" and they ways they "offer students exposure to an always evolving array of thematic foci."

"Come to Buffalo and see for yourself!" They say enthusiastically, before delving into the problem with Michael Knowles. After denouncing him by name, they say "While we are committed to the free and open exchange of ideas, we are also committed to inclusiveness, social justice and respect for all. There is no space for hate speech as there can be no open exchange of ideas without inclusion, justice, and respect. We view Knowles’ public appearance on our campus as contrary to the values and aims of our academic community."

Knowles posted it, saying "I have just been informed by Young America's Foundation that the University of Buffalo Media Studies department has devoted a portion of its homepage—the second paragraph, actually—to a permanent denouncement of me for saying men and women are different. (I spoke at the school almost a year and a half ago.)"

And that's what it all goes back to. Almost two years ago, Knowles spoke on campus and campus activists freaked out. They screamed at reporters who showed up to document the protest, they said Knowles called for an "eradication of transgenderism." They claimed this was a "call for genocide." This outlet covered the protest and the insane vitriol of the activists, who saw it as their gender-given duty to shut down Knowles talk, to gnash their teeth, to freak out in the hallways. 

The hundreds of students, activists, and faculty members completely lost it on Knowles and the others who were on campus to speak that day. They were called fascists, racists, and any other ist that came to the minds of the protesters, who wanted not only to make their views known but to stop Knowles and others from being able to do so themselves.

And what were they so mad about? Knowles had spoken only days before at CPAC, a conservative political conference. It was here that he said conservatives in the US "suffer from low expectations" and "think that the thing hat we can most hope for is that we halt the left exactly where it is, preserve the status quo and hope we don't lose any more ground."

"Sometimes, it feels as if all conservatives do is defend the policies that the Liberals fought for 10 years ago," he said, before launching into his critique of trans and gender ideology, that insidious belief that people can be born in the wrong sexed bodies and need to change them via medical science to be who they truly are.

"On one side of the debate," he said "you've got the liberals who argue that third graders should be taught to change their sex in schools and on the other side you've got the conservatives who say that we should wait until fourth grade. Doesn't seem like much of a difference to me."

Here's where he really expressed an opinion that is unpopular at SUNY Buffalo. "The problem with transgenderism is not that it's inappropriate for children under the age of nine, the problem with transgenderism is that it isn't true. Thr problem with transgenderism is that it puts forward a delusional vision of human nature that denies the reality and importance of sexual difference and complimentarity.

"The problem with transgenderism is that its acceptance at any level necessarily entails the complete destruction of women's bathrooms, women's sports all of the specific rights and spaces that women currently enjoy. There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism. It is all or nothing. If transgenderism is true, if men really can become women, then it's true for everybody of all ages. If transgenderism is false, as it is, if men really can't become women, as they cannot, then it's false for everybody too.

"And if if it's false, then we should not indulge it—especially since that indulgence requires taking away the rights and customs of so many people. If it is false, then for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely the whole preposterous ideology at every level."

That was the line in the sand, the proverbial camel's back-breaking straw, that "transgenderism must be eradicated from public life," that lies must be replaced with truth, that ruined Knowles reputation with the Buffalo activist and media studies set. Knowles told truth, it was interpreted as lies, and is now a foundational component of the media studies department at a state and federally funded school in New York.