{"id":1871006,"date":"2023-03-07T18:40:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protesters-threaten-to-shut-down-michael-knowles-transgenderism-debate\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T18:52:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:52:50","slug":"protesters-threaten-to-shut-down-michael-knowles-transgenderism-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protesters-threaten-to-shut-down-michael-knowles-transgenderism-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters Threaten To Shut Down Michael Knowles Transgenderism Debate"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fprotesters-threaten-to-shut-down-michael-knowles-transgenderism-debate%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=1871006&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--><p> Protesters have threatened to shut down Michael Knowles&#8217; forthcoming debate about transgenderism on The Daily Wire podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Knowles will be discussing transgenderism, womanhood and economics with Deirdre McCarthy, a prominent trans-identifying economists professor. This event is <a href=\"https:\/\/isi.org\/events\/debate-on-transgenderism-womanhood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hosted<\/a> By the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and will be held on April 18 at University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p>This Tuesday: Twitter users &#8220;Norman&#8221; He encouraged nearly 33,000 of his followers to come to the event to end the McCloskey\/Knowles argument.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The university of pittsburgh is hosting this man on campus! it would be a shame if absolutely everyone showed up, disrupted and shut it down at 7:30pm on April 18th at the William Pitt Union,&#8221; Norman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emonormie\/status\/1633172822590648323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Norman responded to Knowles&#8217; viral speech at CPAC last weekend. Knowles claimed that &#8220;transgenderism must be eradicated.&#8221; He was incorrectly quoted by numerous left-leaning news media, who said Knowles had advocated for transgender people to be exterminated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Show up!!! shut it DOWN!! email pitt!!!&#8221; Norman included another tweet along with screenshots showing the event page, which shows the date and the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">ALSO it would be really a shame if you spammed their even[t] registration with fake names\/info,&#8221; Norman also added another tweet, which included a link back to the registration page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Protesters accepted the invitation and registered on the Knowles website with fake names. There were many grotesque names, like &#8220;Suck My Girlc**k,&#8221; &#8220;Moe Lester,&#8221; &#8220;Anna Bortion,&#8221;  &#8220;Gof*** Yerself&#8221; From &#8220;ANTIFA University.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the tweet, Twitter users comment on Knowles&#8217; original tweet. They mention throwing eggs at Knowles and then taking a trip to university to protest it. A Twitter user appears to be using &#8220;they&#8221; Pronouns encouraged protesters follow university rules regarding peaceful demonstrations, which was responded to by another Twitter user. &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Knowles observed that the protesters are afraid of him speaking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My debate opponent is a distinguished\u00a0professor with three degrees from\u00a0Harvard, countless scholarly publications, and six honorary doctorates,&#8221; The Daily Wire interviewed Knowles.\u00a0&#8220;And still the transgenderists\u00a0appear hellbent on keeping me from articulating the argument against transgender ideology. It&#8217;s almost as if they&#8217;re afraid I&#8217;ll win the debate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ISI refused to comment on social media attempts to halt the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>However, the University of Pittsburgh is yet to make a statement regarding the protesters&#8217; pressure to cancel the university from hosting the event.<\/p>\n<p>McCloskey, a Harvard-trained economist who has been teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago for over 20 years.\u00a0McCloskey began identifying as female at\u00a0the age of 53 in 1995.\u00a0McCloskey now self-identifies as &#8220;a professor&#8221;. &#8220;literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive-Episcopalian, ex-Marxist, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man. Not \u2018conservative&#8217;! I&#8217;m a Christian classical liberal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LGBT activists were present last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/transgender-activists-a-no-show-at-matt-walsh-event-after-plan-leaked\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threatened<\/a> To show up at Texas A&#038;M University and stop a speech given by Matt Walsh, Daily Wire host<\/p>\n<p>After their\u00a0elaborate plan to infiltrate and protest Walsh&#8217;s remarks was leaked, the protesters were largely a no-show. The activists were wearing a variety of clothing. &#8220;business-casual&#8221;  &#8220;cisgender and heterosexual-passing&#8221; Walsh supporters to mix in and bring flags along with speakers for chanting. Instructions on how to sit, where to start singing and what time to stop walking away were also included.<\/p>\n<p>Only one person purportedly belonging to the protest group Walsh spoke at the event. He said that Walsh&#8217;s speech was a lot of his own words.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/protesters-threaten-to-shut-down-michael-knowles-transgenderism-debate\">Protesters Threaten To Shut Down Michael Knowles Transgenderism Debate<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters have threatened to shut down Michael Knowles&#8217; forthcoming debate about transgenderism on The Daily Wire podcast. Knowles will be discussing transgenderism, womanhood and economics with Deirdre McCarthy, a prominent trans-identifying economists professor. 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