Student Complains after Professor Does Not Correct Classmate Claiming ‘Only Women Can Have Abortions’

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Student Complains after Professor Does Not Correct Classmate Claiming ‘Only Women Can Have Abortions’



A professor from Iowa State University recently received a complaint for allowing a student to claim abortion and birth control are “women’s issues,” according to the College Fix.


The complaint came after a discussion in class about abortion. The student stated that the professor should have issued a correction when a classmate suggested that only women can have abortions because it “erases trans men and people who are non-binary who get abortions and/or use birth control.”


The student continued to state that “there was no push back by the professor to get students to be more inclusive and instead repeated this erasure.”


Iowa State University gives students the opportunity to report incidents on campus through a “Campus Climate” portal in order to help the university “provide support for those who report being impacted by hate, intolerance or bias on campus.”


In the past year, 49 reports have been filed with the university ranging from transgender issues to abortion to racism. About 20 percent of those were “trans erasure” or “misgendering.”


One student complained that the paperwork for the university’s psychiatric services on campus only asked women for the date of their last menstrual cycle.


“Women are not the only people who have menstrual cycles,” the student wrote. “Trans men can have…

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