KevinMD November 10, 2023
Regressive legislators in a Southwestern state discovered that doctoral-level nursing students, future nurse practitioners at the state university, were receiving education in human sexuality. As watchdogs of public morality, and with a conviction that these students were being educated to “groom” children to become transgender individuals, they did not pause to verify the information, review course materials, or speak with the instructors. Instead, they immediately began complaining to the media about the “wokeness,” “liberal agenda,” and “sinfulness” of the training at a state-funded institution.
The students were required to have prior nursing experience for program acceptance. Did the legislators believe that before entering the doctoral program, the nurses led lives that were entirely sheltered from reality? Were they home-schooled through...