{"id":1475181,"date":"2022-05-14T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475181"},"modified":"2022-05-14T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T13:00:50","slug":"virginia-trans-prof-accused-of-defending-adult-child-sex-hired-by-johns-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-trans-prof-accused-of-defending-adult-child-sex-hired-by-johns-hopkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Trans Prof Accused Of Defending Adult-Child Sex Hired By Johns Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-trans-prof-accused-of-defending-adult-child-sex-hired-by-johns-hopkins%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475181&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-14-at-7.41.26-AM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/transgender\">transgender<\/a> professor who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/university-places-professor-who-defended-minor-attracted-persons-on-leave\">resigned from a Virginia university<\/a> after sparking outrage by complaining that pedophilia is a \u201cstigmatizing\u201d term has been hired by prestigious Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>Allyn Walker, a former assistant professor at Old Dominion University who is a biological female but identifies as \u201cnon-binary,\u201d created a firestorm last November by pushing the term \u201cminor-attracted person\u201d as an alternative to the \u201cstigmatizing\u201d designation of pedophile. Walker, author of a book called \u201cA Long Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity,\u201d resigned after being put on leave, but has now resurfaced at the the Baltimore \u00a0school\u2019s Moore Center for Prevention of Sexual Abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to share that Allyn Walker, PhD, will be joining the Moore Center as a postdoctoral fellow on May 25,\u201d the Moore Center tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are excited to share that Allyn Walker, PhD, will be joining the Moore Center as a postdoctoral fellow on May 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Moore Center for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (@MooreCenter_JHU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MooreCenter_JHU\/status\/1524789498369953792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Old Dominion University put Walker on leave last November after an interview Walker gave to the Protasia Foundation to promote the book. In the interview, Walker insisted that the term \u201cminor-attracted persons\u201d was a preferable alternative to pedophile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s less stigmatizing than other terms like pedophile,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/old-dominion-professor-statement-minor-attracted-persons?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=news_tab\">Walker said<\/a>. \u201cA lot of people when they hear the term pedophile, they automatically assume that it means a sex offender. And that isn\u2019t true. And it leads to a lot of misconceptions about attractions toward minors.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is Allyn Walker <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o59Mm2xGuy\">pic.twitter.com\/o59Mm2xGuy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CarlyYouga (@Kali__Yuga__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kali__Yuga__\/status\/1524961447092322304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Days later, Walker, 34, released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/old_dominion_univers#.Yn-c_y-B23V\">statement<\/a> through Old Dominion insisting the effort to remove the stigma from adults who want to have sex which children was not a defense of child sex abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be clear: child sexual abuse is morally wrong and inexcusable crime,\u201d Walker said in the statement. \u201cAs an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, the goal of my research is to prevent crime. My work is informed by my past experience and advocacy as a social worker counseling victims. I embarked on this research in hopes of gaining understanding of a group that, previously, has not been studied in order to identify ways to protect children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the comments, book and interview\u00a0sparked outrage online and on campus, eventually resulting in ODU releasing a statement condemning Walker\u2019s comments and research. Students were sickened by Walker\u2019s position and the school put Walker on leave in mid-November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to state in the strongest terms possible that child sexual abuse is morally wrong and has no place in our society,\u201d ODU President Brian Hemphill said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Walker resigned shortly afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Johns Hopkins has been historically intertwined with the <a href=\"https:\/\/nursing.jhu.edu\/faculty_research\/research\/opportunities\/fuld\/documents\/cohort-10\/JungAmaral_FuldPosterFinal.pdf\">transgenderism movement<\/a> as well as controversial treatment of pedophiles. In the 1960s, the school employed Dr. John Money, a pioneer in sex change research who coined the phrase \u201cgender identity.\u201d\u00a0The school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/bs-xpm-1992-07-03-1992185041-story.html\">hosted a clinic<\/a> run by a Money prot\u00e9g\u00e9e, Dr. Fred Berlin, that purported to treat child molesters until it was shuttered in 1992 amid criticism over Berlin\u2019s insistence that therapists should not be compelled to report child molesters to the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transgender professor who resigned from a Virginia university after sparking outrage by complaining that pedophilia is a \u201cstigmatizing\u201d term has been hired by prestigious Johns Hopkins University.Allyn Walker, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1482974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}