Aggressive protests of campus speakers criticizing transgender athletes in women’s sports are shutting down free speech at the nation’s top colleges and universities, an advocacy group reports.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which tracks censorship efforts on both sides of the ideological divide, published a free speechThe Philadelphia group based its rankings on an annual survey of 55,102 students that it commissioned academic researcher College Pulse to conduct in the spring, at the end of the 2022-2023 academic year.
During the last academic year, conservative student groups on dozens of campuses invited Ms. Gaines and others to argue that swimmers born male should be barred from women’s sports because their sex assigned at birth gives them unfair competitive advantages. The issue has become a political flashpoint ahead of the 2024 election.
Among all students surveyed this year, the group noted that 56% “expressed worry about damaging their reputation because of someone misunderstanding what they have said or done.” Another 26% reported feeling pressure to avoid discussing controversial topics in class. According to the FIRE report, “an alarming” 81% or 26 out of 32 attempts at these five campuses prompted the successful de-platforming of a student group, professor or invited speaker.
While all five of these schools are public universities, FIRE noted that the private University of Chicago had the highest average ranking in all four surveys from 2020 to 2023.In an emailed statement, Michigan Tech noted its adherence to the University of Chicago principles of free expression that “more than one hundred other public and private universities across the country” also follow.
The report lists four successful attempts to silence free speech at USC since 2020. They include the 2021 cancellation of a talk on the Ethiopian civil war by Norwegian academic Kjetil Tronvoll after left-wing critics protested online that his opposition to the Ethiopian government is racially based.
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