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"Euless Trinity's Mack Beggs, top, wrestles Lewisville's Elyse Nelson during the 6A Region II wrestling meet at Allen High School in Allen, Texas, Beggs, a senior from Euless Trinity High School near Dallas is transgender and in the process of transitioning from female to male. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)" - The Washington Times It doesn't take long in one's research about Feminism to discover the gender neutrality movement. Its adherents hold that it is arbitrary and oppressive to gender someone or to make gender an issue in decision-making. These believe that gender is a social construct and carries with it gender-specific roles that oppress the individual, particularly women. In response to this, they push for gender neutrality in government policies, families and businesses for example, and the movement's proponents claim when gender neutrality advances, then women win. Yet, in many ways, the gender neutrality movement is a tre...

Last week, I submitted interview questions to each of the three candidates for student body president at UT-Tyler. I asked them some basic questions about why they are running and then their positions on some general issues in higher education I thought others might find interesting, such as their their position on Campus Carry legislation, banning controversial speakers from campus and abortion. My effort was to give the reader a feel for each candidate's values and priorities. I posted my interview with Blake Hendricks last week  here . This week, I am thankful to receive Joshua Menhennett's responses. Here is my interview with student body president candidate Josh Menhennett.  His responses have been edited for readability and flow. INTERVIEW WITH STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT CANDIDATE JOSHUA MENHENNETT 1. Why are you running for student body president? I believe there are improvements that can be made to significant aspects of the student experience at t...

Blake Hendricks, Candidate for Student Body President at UT-Tyler (Source: Twitter) There are three candidates running in this Spring's student body president election: Blake Hendricks, Jacob McLeod and Joshua Menhennett. To get to know these candidates and their campaigns better, I submitted 11 questions to each individual on Wednesday, February 6 with the request that they respond by noon on Friday, February 8. I asked them some basic questions about why they are running and then their positions on some general issues in higher education I thought others might find interesting, such as their their position on Campus Carry legislation, banning controversial speakers from campus and abortion. My effort was to give the reader a feel for each candidate's values and priorities. At the time of this publication, only Blake Hendricks responded, although each candidate said they are happy to participate in the interview. Treasurer Jacob McLeod is in Austin Friday and Sa...