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Saying there are 2 sexes is ‘very transphobic,’ Oregon State instructor says

A class instructor reported an Oregon State University student to the bias response team after he argued there are only two sexes in a final course project.

The incident report, obtained by The College Fix through a public records request, reveals that an instructor (or teaching assistant) flagged the male undergraduate student for holding views critical of gender theory.

The incident was among 20 bias reports filed at Oregon State at the start of the Fall 2025 semester.

While specific details, dates, and course titles were heavily redacted by university public records office the remaining narrative makes it clear that the student’s offense stemmed from disputing that gender is on a spectrum.

According to the report, the student was enrolled in an eight-week summer Canvas course within the university’s College of Education. As part of the course requirements, students were tasked with submitting an “action project” designed to identify a local issue, outline potential collaborators, project a timeline, and take an initial step toward a solution.

Despite acknowledging that the student had “consistently done well in the course, and not struggled with any of the other social justice content,” the instructor initiated formal administrative intervention over the final project, writing that the submission contained “extensive examples of transphobia.”

“Many of the claims he makes in his paper, and the sources he uses, are very transphobic,” the instructor wrote in the report, which categorized the perceived motive as involving “Gender identity, Gender expression, [and] Sex.”

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El-Sayed Supporter Thrown Down by Police After Tackling Conservative Reporter on Michigan College Campus, Screams “I Should Have F*cking Killed You” During Arrest

A self-described liberal mental patient attacked and threatened to kill a conservative reporter during a free speech event at the University of Michigan on Sunday.

According to independent reporter Cam Higby, the insane woman is an Abdul El-Sayed supporter.

Liz Benichou, a Jewish activist who was filming man-on-the-street interviews on campus, was shoved to the ground by the lunatic during an apparent debate.

Out of nowhere, the woman shoved her to the ground and jumped on top of Benichou as multiple individuals tried to hold her back before police arrived.

The cop threw her on the ground and slapped cuffs on her as she tried to resist and screamed profanities at the cops, admitting to the attack. “What the f*ck are you going to do to me because I hit a f*cking dumb ass b*tch in the face?” she said.

Then, as police loaded her into the cruiser, she began screaming, “You stupid f*cking c*nt!” She screamed at Benichou, “I should have f*cking killed you when I had the f*cking chance!”

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19 Arrested as Riots Break Out in Spain over Right-Wing Influencer Campus Appearance

Riots broke out once again in Spain on Monday evening in the northern city of Bilbao as far-left activists staged protests to pressure the cancellation of an appearance by a right-wing influencer.

The autonomous Ertzaintza Police force of the Basque Country in northern Spain said that they arrested 19 people in Bilbao as a group of radical activists and students set cars on fire, looted shops and destroyed street furniture.

The protest, according to public broadcaster RTVE, was promoted by leftist groups like the Socialist Youth of the Basque Country and other so-called “anti-fascist” groups opposed to a planned appearance by Spanish conservative commentator Vito Quiles at the University of Deusto.

The call managed to see around 2,000 mostly students attend the afternoon demonstration, the Socialist Youth declaring that “Vito Quiles is NOT welcome” at their campus and that they would “not allow their hatred and intolerance to make their way among the youth.”

Among the 19 arrested were seven minors, according to the broadcaster, in addition to three 18-year-olds and a 19-year-old.

Quiles, who is known for his confrontational journalism and campus speaking tours, claimed that the head of the Ertzaina police had warned him of a “very high” risk of an incident, claiming that members of the ETA (Basque Homeland and Liberty) separatist terror group had helped organise the protests against his appearance.

“Given that there are former ETA members, street terrorists, and other criminals leading the protests, the talk is cancelled,” Quiles said. “Freedom of expression is sacred but no more important than protecting the integrity of all the good young people who attend these events and do not deserve to be exposed to violent situations because of a bunch of scum.”

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Federal research awards send $13.5 million to 163 scholars at foreign institutions

Canada’s three federal research councils have listed 163 scholarships and fellowships worth $13.5 million to recipients with addresses outside Canada in their disclosures for April to September 2026. The councils are the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Of the 163, 107 recipients are listed in the United States and 29 in Britain, with others in France, Australia and Switzerland. Oxford appears 15 times; Princeton, Stanford and Berkeley five times each.

All 163 are Canada Graduate Research Scholarships at the doctoral level (CGRS-D) or Canada Postdoctoral Research Awards (CPRA), part of the Canada Research Training Awards Suite that Budget 2024 funded with “$825 million over five years to the granting councils.” SSHRC and CIHR list the doctoral award at $120,000 and the postdoctoral award at $140,000, the full value of $40,000 a year for 36 months and $70,000 a year for 24 months. NSERC’s entries list $20,000 and $35,000, and eight entries of $5, which the dataset does not explain, so the $13.5 million total mixes full and partial amounts.

The rules allow it. NSERC’s doctoral page says, “You may propose to hold your CGRS D at any eligible Canadian or degree-granting institution outside of Canada,” and that “Up to 20% of all doctoral awards will be available to be held outside of Canada.” The postdoctoral page sets the share at “Up to 30%.” Holders abroad must be citizens, permanent residents or protected persons with a prior Canadian degree. Neither program page contains any requirement that the scholar return to Canada, and the data does not show what share of all awards is held abroad.

The councils are run by presidents appointed by the government. NSERC’s Alejandro Adem was reappointed for five years from October 1, 2024; CIHR’s Paul Hébert was appointed for five years from January 2, 2025; at SSHRC, Ted Hewitt’s term ended on February 28, 2026, and council chair Normand Labrie “will assume the powers of the president” while the government searches for a successor. The records name no official. Web searches found no political donations or party roles for any of the three; the Elections Canada database itself could not be queried.

Taxpayer-funded doctoral and postdoctoral awards are being held at Oxford, Princeton and other foreign institutions, and the program pages set no requirement to come home.

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Scientists Create the First Synthetic Cells That Grow, Reproduce, and Undergo Natural Selection

Scientists at the University of Minnesota have engineered the building blocks of artificial life from nonliving materials in a disturbing, first-of-its-kind experiment. They call them SpudCells.

For the first time, scientists have created artificial cells that can grow, reproduce, and pass advantageous genetic traits to future generations, allowing some cells to outcompete others.

They assembled these synthetic cells from fatty membranes, engineered DNA, ribosomes, and protein-producing enzymes. The cells contain a 90,000-base-pair DNA genome that helps them manufacture proteins, copy their genetic material, and grow by absorbing smaller, nutrient-filled bubbles.

These artificial cells can divide into daughter cells and pass their genetic material to their offspring. Researchers demonstrated five generations of DNA replication, feeding, growth, and mechanically assisted division.

The cells compete for limited resources. Those carrying an advantageous genetic variant grow faster and produce more offspring, allowing that variant to become increasingly common. In just five generations, the advantageous variant increased from 10% to 38% of the population.

Although these artificial cells still require specialized laboratory conditions to reproduce, this experiment represents a major step toward creating autonomous synthetic organisms.

Just because scientists can push the boundaries of life itself does not mean they should. Playing God comes with major consequences, and we are entering dangerous territory.

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Trump’s War Department Declares Chinese Communist Party-Backed Confucius Institutes a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT — Hegseth Says 80 Chinese Propaganda Operations at 30 US Universities Have Been Dismantled

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the Department of War has formally designated Confucius Institutes as a threat to U.S. national security.

In a video posted to his official X account, Hegseth detailed how Chinese Communist Party-backed operations that Congress restricted years ago had simply rebranded and continued operating on American campuses.

Hegseth drew a direct parallel to the DEI bureaucracy the War Department has been dismantling.

“When I took office, one thing we knew was that the cancer of DEI, it was going to be difficult to kill here in the Department of War. You see, instead of complying, promoters of this ideology just tried to rebrand it and thought they would be safe,” he said. “Now, today, in a similar example, I want to tell you about Confucius Institutes.”

He continued: “These Chinese government-backed propaganda cultural programs had infiltrated our nation’s universities in almost every state. Now, thankfully, Congress banned them a few years ago, these Confucius Institutes but they came back disguised in new forms just like DEI does. Just call it a different name. Well, the Department of War has taken action to stop this as well. We added these sleeper organizations to our list of institutions that threaten our national security.”

Hegseth stated that investigators uncovered “80 new propaganda cells across 30 universities” operating under different names and charters but with the same mission “to steal intellectual property and to infiltrate the minds of American students.”

Over the past two months, the War Department “systematically dismantled every single one of these organizations” using its funding and contracting leverage.

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Harvard Medical School Holds Panel Raising Whether Weight Loss Drugs Are An Imperialistic, Militaristic Plot

Harvard University is facing another controversy after its medical school held an event on “the Pathology of Unruly Bodies.” The most surprising part is that it was not a reference to the Harvard faculty itself. Rather, a panel composed of non-medical experts was railing against anti-obesity drugs as part of “indoctrination” to support the ills of “empire and imperialism.” Welcome to the state of higher education in America.

The panel was devoid of actual medical experts. It was dressed up in medical terms with the use of the word “pathology.” It could have easily been billed as “GLP-1 Anti-Body.” The panel included such experts as Da’Shaun L Harrison, who recently drew notoriety for claiming at the Socialism 2026 conference in Chicago that GLP-1 medications constitute “genocide” against fat people.

Another headliner was Roxane Gay, the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University – New Brunswick and the artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School. Professor Gay (the cousin of former Harvard University President Claudine Gay) had called for the release of Luigi Mangione, who murdered Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, two years ago.

Despite her extremism and penchant for murderers like Mangione, Gay writes for the New York Times and apparently likes to flip off people in public. Harvard decided she was exactly what they needed to help shape their medical students. She is part of the radical chic of higher education, where no views are too far left (while departments purge conservatives and libertarians).

Harrison quickly picked up where she left off at the Socialist Convention with bizarre claims. Rather than claiming that drug companies were engaging in the genocide of fat people with weight-loss drugs, she explained that the companies were really militarizing an imperialist state: “This practice of forcing people into manipulating and changing or shifting how they look is oftentimes about making bodies militarisable. Building up a military to defend an imperialist state.“

She further claimed:

“A lot of doctors, medical professionals and folks who collaborate with them – be it through the government or media – are advocating for atrocities that are directly impacting our citizens, but also citizens around the globe.

It then becomes about creating this ideal body that you are always being pushed and pulled towards, as a way to represent this patriotism that is intended to indoctrinate one into the military, into the defense of the country.”

The suggestion that weight loss is an imperialist militaristic plot is obviously bonkers. It is the kind of raving you would expect on a subway from someone wearing a handmade cardboard sign and a tin foil hat.

However, Harvard Medical School views that person as a serious expert on the pathologies of weight loss.

Notably, not a single Harvard faculty member expressed unease over the programming. Medical students are facing an array of tough technological and economic conditions. Yet, the administration wants them to sit through far-left indoctrinations from the likes of Gay and Harrison.

Harvard is not alone. Various medical schools have incorporated radical social agendas into their curricula or events. We recently discussed how UCLA Medical School held a panel on which psychiatrists defended self-immolation in protesting Israel. In an earlier post, we discussed a mandatory lecture at UCLA of one of the university’s “activists-in-residence” replete with anti-Semitic postings and racist rhetoric.

The hiring of figures like Gay and the radical programs at these schools show that faculty have little intention to change the ideological echo chamber in higher education. It is truly a pathology of unruly bodies.

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DEI Continues: DOJ Discovers Discrimination Against Whites and Asians at Ohio State Medical School Despite Supreme Court Ruling

The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that Ohio State’s medical school was found to have discriminated against white and Asian applicants in violation of federal law.

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division cited admissions practices for the 2023, 2024, and 2025 incoming classes, saying that the school violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on color or race, according to a news release.

The Justice Department also mentioned the 2023 Supreme Court decision of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which effectively banned affirmative action.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said, “Despite SFFA, OSU Med allows some applicants to bypass its own screening process and skip interviews solely because of the color of their skin.”

“A university’s admissions process, and all its stages, should apply equally to all applicants regardless of race,” she continued. “The use of a separate admissions process based on race is plainly illegal under federal law, and this Department will not allow these appalling practices to continue at OSU Med or any other federally funded higher ed institution.”

The release went on to describe how OSU used a “Holistic Approach” as a workaround to admit so-called “underrepresented minorities.”

In addition, the medical school’s admissions process has an interview stage, but the DOJ discovered that black applicants who are screened and interviewed “are about 2.8 times as likely to be admitted than Asian applicants with equal credentials.”

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45% Of College Students Justify Violence To Stop ‘Hate Speech’: Survey

A new survey finds that nearly half of undergraduate students support censorship, shout-downs, and physical violence to suppress what they consider “hate speech” or offensive ideas.

Fox News reports that the 2026 National Undergraduate Student Survey, released this month by the Buckley Institute, shows that 45 percent of undergraduate students surveyed believe physical violence can be justified to stop so-called hate speech. That number is up 6 points from 2025 and ties the all-time record set in 2023.

The survey, which polled 803 full-time undergraduate students at four-year public and private colleges across the United States, revealed several record-high metrics concerning free expression on campus, according to Yahoo.

Other takeaways from the survey were that 46 percent of students support shout downs and 40 percent believe that offensive speech should be subject to criminal prosecution.

Some 42 percent of respondents said that political comments they disagree with can be harmful to their mental health, up 4 points from last year; the highest reading in the 5 years this question has been monitored.

The findings prompted Cornerstone University President Dr. Gerson Moreno-Riaño to warn that higher education has “lost its way.”

Moreno-Riaño told Fox News Digital:

American colleges and universities for a long time now have really ceased to form students morally and are teaching resentment, teaching grievance politics, teaching violent entitlement. So, when graduates leave these universities, they leave with that. They’re not leaving with a moral formation of their hearts, their minds, their lives. They’re leaving with resentment.

Moreno-Riaño also cautioned that many colleges and universities are preparing “socialists and Marxists” who want entitlement and to “destroy the system” rather than “build it, make it, refine it and improve it.”

The Cornerstone University president also stressed that American higher education “has to shift,” saying it needs to “take moral formation seriously and not be grounded in entitlement and grievance culture.”

The Buckley Institute survey was conducted online between Sept. 5 and Sept. 14 by Inquire LLC and included 803 full-time undergraduate students under age 25 attending four-year public or private colleges and universities.

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Colleges Are Still Discriminating by Race

In 2023, the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard said that it was unconstitutional to discriminate in college admissions based on race. But since then we’ve seen pretty strong evidence that some schools are doing their best to cheat their way around this ruling.

In the past two years, the Trump administration has accused a bunch of specific schools of cheating.

In May, the Trump administration opened a new front in its crackdown on the higher education sector.

The U.S. Department of Justice said it had completed a yearlong investigation into the University of California, Los Angeles’ medical school and concluded that the public institution was discriminating based on race by giving Black and Hispanic applicants a leg up in the admissions process. UCLA pushed back against claims it was violating the law.

Since then, the DOJ has produced similar findings against four other medical schools and one law school, alleging that they are violating the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling against race-conscious admissions.

In June of this year the DOJ announced it was opening 15 more probes into medical school admissions, though it didn’t name the schools under investigation.

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today that it opened fifteen new investigations into potential race discrimination in medical school admissions. The Division recently announced its findings that the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Yale University both illegally used race in medical school admissions.

But despite all of this effort, it seems many schools are more committed to equity practices than they are to following the law. In short, they are still cheating.

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