The Spring 2025 class at Yale University is called "Queer Science." The class overview says it will be taught by two instructors, Joanna Radin and Juno Richards. The latter, according to The College Fix, uses "they/them" pronouns. The course description says students will be taught "how to "bring your kids up gay" and to consider "whether science can be made queer."
Matt Lamb, associate editor of The College Fix, admits in an interview with AFN that he's puzzled.
"This is another course in higher ed, specifically at Yale, which has some other goofy courses," he shares. "It's basically just about identity politics, about pushing sort of a niche topic. Why the university even offers this class remains a mystery to me."
The course description includes several questions: "Can facial recognition technology really tell if you're queer?" "Why is everyone so obsessed with gay penguins?" and "For that matter, how did science come to be the right tool for defining and knowing sex, gender, and sexuality at all?"
While Lamb doesn't contend classes that promote such thinking could lead to major societal harm, he does have another concern.
"I think Yale students who are underwriting this course with their $80,000-a-year tuition and fees should question the value of this class," he argues. "Only 15 students can enroll in this class per semester, so there's a lot of money being spent on this two-professor course, apparently there's two people needed to teach this, that could probably be used in better ways."
Putting the course in dollar value – if a student spends 3 credits out of a 15-credit load, that means the course costs him or her thousands of dollars. "I think they should ask if it's worth [that] to take a course on queer science," Lamb concludes.
