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Mon Oct 23, 2017, 05:13 AM Oct 2017

SUNY Geneseo responds to professor's alleged transphobic comments

A state University College at Geneseo instructor is under fire from students outraged by allegedly inappropriate comments he made about transgender people during a recent sociology class.

According to sophomore Jasmine Cui, the comments came during adjunct lecturer David Sorbello's class lecture on Oct. 18, when Sorbello presented the class with a slide titled "FEMALE or SHEMALE? can you tell?"

Cui tweeted an image of the slide and posted it to Facebook earlier this week, generating an outpouring of indignation from fellow students and Geneseo alumni.

Cui said as a student senator, she discussed the issue with the school's diversity committee, but was told the senate would not act on the behalf of the angry students.

Read more: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/10/21/suny-geneseo-responds-professors-alleged-transphobic-comments/787304001/

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