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Callie H. Burt vs. transgender people

Callie H. Burt is an American sociologist, criminologist, sex segregationist, and anti-transgender activist.

Burt was removed from the Editorial Board of Feminist Criminology following publication of a 2020 paper about transgender rights and the US Equality Act 2019.

Background

Callie Harbin Burt was born in May 1979 and attended University of Georgia, earning a bachelor’s degree in 2002, a master’s degree in 2004, and a doctorate in 2009. Burt was appointed as an Associate Professor in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

Burt married Kara Hannula in 2019.

Anti-trans activism

Burt holds hereditarian views about human behavior.

In the 2020 Feminist Criminology paper, Burt stated:

Women’s sex-based provisions have been instituted and maintained to mitigate historical and ongoing social disadvantages (e.g., support for women/girls, quotas, and awards and competitions) and to provide female spaces free of the threat of male violence, sexual harassment and objectification to facilitate women’s equal involvement in public life. Some provisions (e.g., female awards and quotas) are designed to overcome social disadvantages rooted in historical exclusion, while other provisions, such as sports and female reproductive control, are sex separated due to biological differences (male physiological advantages and female reproductive burden, respectively) and justified by the individual and social benefits of female social involvement such provisions facilitate (Coleman, 2017). In general, sex-based provisions continue to be crucial to females’ well-being and equal participation in society, facilitating privacy, equal opportunity, and dignity in a world where male people have long been hostile and exclusionary to female people (e.g., Lawford-Smith, 2019a).

That led to the removal of Burt from the journal’s editorial board:

In some cases, academics who have objected to “gender ideology”—the view that gender identity should trump biology—have been removed from professional posts. In April Callie Burt, an associate professor at Georgia State University, was fired from the editorial board of Feminist Criminology. She was told her presence might deter others from submitting manuscripts. The problem appears to have been her criticism of the conflation of sex and gender identity in proposed anti-discrimination legislation.

Burt contributed a chapter titled “Sex, Gender, and Equality in the United States: Confusion, Conflict, and Consequences” to the 2023 anti-trans book Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader.

References

[uncredited] (Jun 5th 2021). A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities. The Economist https://www.economist.com/international/2021/06/05/a-backlash-against-gender-ideology-is-starting-in-universities

Wright, Colin (February 5, 2021). Viewpoint on sex and gender: Has the New England Journal abandoned science for woke political correctness? Genetic Literacy Project https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/02/05/viewpoint-on-sex-and-gender-has-the-new-england-journal-abandoned-science-for-woke-political-correctness/

Selected anti-trans writings by Burt

Burt, Callie (7th February 2021). What Biden’s Executive Order 13988 means for women and girls. Woman’s Place UK https://womansplaceuk.org/2021/02/07/bidens-executive-order/

Burt, C. H. (2020). Scrutinizing the U.S. Equality Act 2019: A Feminist Examination of Definitional Changes and Sociolegal Ramifications. Feminist Criminology (Vol. 15, Issue 4, pp. 363–409). https://doi.org/10.1177/1557085120918667

Burt, C. H. (2022). Feminist Lesbians as Anti-Trans Villains: A Comment on Worthen and Elaboration. In Sexuality & Culture (Vol. 27, Issue 1, pp. 161–190). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-022-10008-4

Sullivan, Alice; Todd, Selina [Eds.] (2023). Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader. Taylor & Francis, ISBN 9781032261195

Burt, Callie (May 20, 2021). Response (Objection) to My Removal from Editorial Board https://callieburt.org/2021/05/20/response-objection-to-my-removal-from-editorial-board/

Burt, Callie (). Context of my Removal from the Editorial Board of Feminist Criminology. https://callieburt.org/2021/04/23/context-ebremoval/

Burt CH (2022). Discounting Females, Denying Sex, and Disregarding Dangers from Self-ID—A Reply and a Defense of Open Debate. Peer-Reviewed. Journal of Controversial Ideas 2022, 2(1), 15; doi: 10.35995/jci02010015

Burt, Callie (February 3, 2021).Guest opinion: HB112 is pro-female, not anti-trans. Billings Gazette https://billingsgazette.com/opinion/columnists/guest-opinion-hb112-is-pro-female-not-anti-trans/article_266ff750-2e5f-52b5-bcc5-266634910e4c.html

Burt, Callie; Byrne, Alex (August 20, 2020). Biological Sex and the Legal Protection of LGBT Individuals. Areo https://areomagazine.com/2020/08/20/biological-sex-and-the-legal-protection-of-lgbt-individuals/ [archive]

Burt, Callie (April 21, 2020). Idaho’s transgender athlete bill is pro-female, not anti-transgender. Idaho Statesman https://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article242055826.html

Burt, Callie (June 20, 2020). JK Rowling & the Sex-Gender Strife. Medium https://medium.com/@callieburt/jk-rowling-and-the-sex-gender-debate-d7b9261fb2b8

Burt, Callie (December 10, 2019). Sex is not Gender & Sports are Sex Separated. Medium https://medium.com/@callieburt/sex-is-not-gender-sports-are-sex-separated-76b00db0c398

Resources

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