{"id":1913516,"date":"2023-04-12T06:26:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T10:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-prof-runs-from-debate-with-michael-knowles-days-before-event\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T06:27:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T10:27:26","slug":"trans-prof-runs-from-debate-with-michael-knowles-days-before-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-prof-runs-from-debate-with-michael-knowles-days-before-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Prof Runs From Debate With Michael Knowles Days Before Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Ftrans-prof-runs-from-debate-with-michael-knowles-days-before-event%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=1913516&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-->\n<p>Deirdre McCloskey, a trans-identifying professor, has canceled a scheduled debate with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, citing his supposed lack of interest in seeking the truth and labeling him as a promoter of hatred towards those who do not share his conservative Catholic beliefs. The two were set to debate on transgenderism and womanhood at the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The event had previously received criticism from activists who sought to have it canceled and then threatened to shut it down themselves. The university ultimately stood by their decision to allow student organizations to host speakers of their choice, despite calling Knowles\u2019 appearance \u201ctoxic and hurtful for many people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCloskey had previously expressed confidence in the debate, stating that his life was a preparation for it, but later withdrew, leading Knowles to speculate that the professor was not able to defend transgenderism with the truth and love-based arguments that he would have brought to the debate. Knowles expressed disappointment with the outcome but saw it as a testament to the indefensibility of the ideology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deirdre McCloskey, a trans-identifying professor, no longer wants to debate Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, dropping out of an event that was scheduled for next Tuesday at the University of Pittsburgh. Knowles was set to appear with the University of Illinois Chicago professor at Pitt to debate \u201ctransgenderism and womanhood.\u201d McCloskey, a man who identifies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1913517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4525,3896,4864,4679,5177,4687,4296,7037],"class_list":["post-1913516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-days","tag-debate","tag-event","tag-knowles","tag-michael","tag-prof","tag-runs","tag-trans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913516","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}