Trans Professor Backs Out of Debate with Conservative Commentator
12th April 2023
Transgender professor Deirdre McCloskey backed out of a debate at the University of Pittsburgh with conservative commentator Michael Knowles, despite expressing confidence in winning the debate in the weeks prior.
McCloskey, who identifies as a transgender woman, said the debate with Knowles, originally scheduled for April 18 at the University of Pittsburgh, “would not be a rational debate but a fascist rally,” Campus Reform reported. Knowles announced the change on Tuesday.
“I’ve just learned that Prof. McCloskey has dropped out of our debate scheduled for next week,” Knowles tweeted Tuesday. “For weeks, he’s baselessly smeared me as a ‘fascist’ but nonetheless insisted upon the importance of debating ideas rather than running from them. Apparently he’s changed his mind.”
“It’s telling that even a distinguished scholar with three Harvard degrees and half a dozen honorary doctorates cannot defend transgenderism,” Knowles added. “Of course: The ideology is indefensible.”
McCloskey explained his decision to back out of the debate, saying, “I decided not to participate in giving him a platform” and claiming Knowles is “utterly uninterested in finding the truth.”
April 12th, 2023 at 21:01
While you might be happy to debate Michael Knowles, you would be the only one I know. I would no more take on Michael Knowles than I would a buzz saw.
April 13th, 2023 at 15:48
I wouldn’t be happy to debate anybody. I can think of no more pointless exercise in narcissistic preening than the typical debate.