How can dubious ‘misgendering’ claims threaten to destroy this law student’s life?

In different motion of really unjust modern academia has become, specious “misgendering” accusations now put a Pace Law School student’s full early astatine risk.

Crazier still, the charges turn connected what should beryllium wholly protected speech: an after-hours panel chat past period hosted by nan decidedly un-woke Federalist Society, focused connected Prop 1 and women’s sports.

Third-year rule student Houston Porter, 28, stands accused of pointing “aggressively” astatine a transgender student and “misgendering” them arsenic angry wokists dragged nan chat into chaos.

Supposedly, that amounts to “sex-based discrimination” nether Title IX, a national rule covering acquisition institutions that person national funding.

Yet nan known facts don’t look to moreover warrant a hearing: Porter, supported by different witnesses, denies pointing astatine aliases “purposefully” referring to immoderate student “as a man successful beforehand of classmates, rule schoolhouse module and administrators, and guests,” arsenic his accuser alleges.

Yet he’s astatine consequence of expulsion aliases suspension — and getting disqualified from passing nan barroom nether a “morals” clause.

Three years of his life, and each nan disbursal and effort of a law-school education, destroyed complete a disagreement.

Ironically, this weaponization of anti-discrimination statutes is 1 of nan main things that critics of Prop 1 — which would codify gender personality and gender look arsenic protected classes successful New York’s Constitution — person warned against.

If Pace University lets this outrage play out, it tin opportunity goodbye to immoderate unfastened dissent from nan far-left project, and to immoderate early different than arsenic a finishing schoolhouse for social-justice warriors.