Thanks to campus LGBT bullies and spineless administrators, a formerly gender-confused college student has been forced to indefinitely postpone a presentation on the dangers of gender transitioning.
Queer Pressure
According to the Daily Signal, Simon Amaya Price, a 20-year-old student at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, was scheduled to give an October 20 presentation entitled “Born in the Right Body: Desister and Detransitioner Awareness.” As a “desister” — someone who once identified as transgender but did not undergo medical treatments to “transition” to another gender — Amaya Price wanted “to raise awareness about” desisters and detransitioners, he explained in an Instagram post announcing the event.
“I encourage everyone to attend as this is an issue very close to my heart and effects [sic] a lot of people, especially LGB and neurodivergent individuals like myself,” he wrote. “I welcome and encourage open debate and dissenting opinions.”
Unfortunately for Amaya Price, those who disagree with him do not encourage debate and dissent. The Daily Signal reported that after he put up posters advertising the event and wrote his Instagram post on October 15,
He woke up the next morning to hundreds of negative comments, including “take a long walk off a cliff,” “i am going to go to this event and i am going to throw expired groceries at you,” “bro you should be SCARED for sunday what the f*** were you thinking,” “drop out please,” and “horrible disgusting and disappointing.”
Several commenters claimed that Amaya Price was making up the fact that children undergo transgender surgeries.
Not even autism, bisexuality, and a transgender past could save Amaya Price from the left-wing enforcers, some of whom read him out of the autistic and “queer” communities over his desire to share his experiences with others.
Father Knows Best
Amaya Price’s story is an optimistic one that should provide hope to other adolescents questioning their gender.
In ninth grade, the Daily Signal wrote, he “experienced social ostracism and a mental health crisis,” as a result of which he decided he was actually a girl.
His therapist affirmed his belief and referred him to Boston Children’s Hospital to begin “transitioning” via hormones and surgery. His pediatrician, also fully on board the trans express, gave him and his father the usual scare treatment, telling them they had to choose between having a “dead son or a living daughter” because the then-14-year-old boy would surely kill himself if transitioning were denied.
Fortunately, Amaya Price’s father had the fortitude to stand up to this nonsense and refused to permit such ghastly procedures on his son.
“I hated him for that,” Amaya Price told the Daily Signal. “But now looking back at that, he did the best thing he could have done.”
Like most young people with gender dysphoria, Amaya Price eventually grew out of it. But his experience gave him the desire to warn others of “the dangers of allowing minors to consent to life-altering gender-transition surgeries,” penned the Daily Signal.
Savage Attack
Thus, Amaya Price’s lived experience, prized by the LGBT crowd when it comports with their ideology, became a liability to him.
On October 17, he and his father met with Berklee Vice President Ron Savage and the dean of his major. According to the Daily Signal, after seeing the numerous responses to Amaya Price’s Instagram posts, “Savage recommended Amaya Price postpone his event for safety and logistical reasons.”
That seemingly sensible response convinced Amaya Price. He soon announced on Instagram that his event had been postponed, which resulted in “hundreds of additional negative comments,” recounted the Daily Signal.
On Monday, Savage told him he was “indefinitely postponing” the event.
“The event was supposed to be a necessary, culminating project in my class ‘Songwriting and Social Change,’” Amaya Price said. “The event was approved by my professor, and the fact that Mr. Savage has decided that I am not allowed to do my event is a violation of my academic freedom and a major barrier in my way to graduating on Dec. 12.”
“Too Diverse” for DEI
Berklee’s DEI machinery quickly swung into damage-control mode.
On Monday — the day after Amaya Price’s presentation was initially scheduled and the day on which Savage put the kibosh on it — the college’s associate director of inclusive teaching held a meeting for LGBTQ students in the very room where Amaya Price’s event would have taken place. Amaya Price told the Daily Signal “he expects this was an opportunity for students who were disgruntled about his event to air their grievances.”
Meanwhile, the school’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, which had originally sponsored Amaya Price’s event, issued a statement saying not only that the event was being postponed, but also that, if it ever takes place, the office will no longer sponsor it.
“It’s very disheartening, because they were making it very clear that, you know, I’m too diverse for them,” Amaya Price said.
One hopes the college comes to its senses so Amaya Price can graduate and pursue his dreams, which include having a wife and children — and no fear that his kids will be pressured into following the same dangerous path he nearly trod.
“I don’t want to worry, ‘Oh, is my kid going to go to the doctor, and then the doctor is going to tell my kid to go on hormones and have these life-altering medical procedures,’” he said. “That’s why I’m doing this. I’m doing this to save people.”
