{"id":12495,"date":"2023-11-03T12:33:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T17:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/?p=12495"},"modified":"2024-08-20T12:42:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T17:42:32","slug":"campus-wide-debate-should-gender-affirming-care-for-youth-be-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/2023\/11\/03\/campus-wide-debate-should-gender-affirming-care-for-youth-be-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus-Wide Debate: Should gender affirming care for youth be banned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 1st, our Liberty over lunch seminar students hosted a campus debate at <a class=\"app-aware-link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/western-carolina-university\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Carolina University<\/a> on the question:<\/p>\n<p>Should gender affirming care for youth be banned?<\/p>\n<p>For over an hour and a half, students, faculty, and staff discussed the pros and cons of the question. Many excellent points were made, and the level of grace and humility was incredible.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12497 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2024\/08\/IMG_6131-scaled-e1724175633655-300x188.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><br \/>\nI want to thank the Liberty over lunch students for selecting the topic and kicking off the debate, the <a class=\"app-aware-link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/western-carolina-university-college-of-business\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Carolina University College of Business<\/a> staff for helping with food and room arrangements, <a id=\"ember605\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dougsprei\/\">Doug Sprei<\/a> for helping us select and frame our debate question, <a id=\"ember606\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wm-bryan-paul-8218aa52\/\">Wm. Bryan Paul<\/a> for gently guiding us through the debate as chair, the Barnes Family Foundation of NC and <a class=\"app-aware-link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/braverangels\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Braver Angels<\/a> for supporting the event, and <a id=\"ember607\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/emily-jae-49444215\/\">Emily Jae<\/a> and <a id=\"ember608\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jenna-robinson-9920996\/\">Jenna Robinson<\/a> for recommending Braver Angels to lead the debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 1st, our Liberty over lunch seminar students hosted a campus debate at Western Carolina University on the question: Should gender affirming care for youth be banned? For over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3303,"featured_media":12499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4,109,24],"tags":[877,876],"class_list":["post-12495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-previous-events","category-blog","tag-braver-angels","tag-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12500,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495\/revisions\/12500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/csfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}