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Russell Sage College Announces Course Dedicated To Teaching Students How To Talk, Sneeze, And Cough Like Opposite Sex

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  • Source: Bongino
  • 06/10/2024
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If you thought higher education couldnā€™t possibly delegitimize itself anymore, think again. Russell Sage College in Albany, New York is launching a ā€œgender-affirmingā€ voice course to teach students how to speak, sneeze, and cough like the opposite sex. 

ā€œThe program will offer small group sessions on their Albany campus, focusing on aspects of voice such as pitch, inflection, and resonance,ā€ reported Campus Reform. The program is set to launch in the spring of 2025 and will last twenty hours over the semester. 

A description of the event explains that the course will cover ā€œlanguage and nonverbal communication,ā€ such as ā€œcoughing, sneezing, and throat-clearing, because these often affect listener perception of gender.ā€ 

ā€œModeled after the longstanding program at The College of Saint Rose, sessions will be two hours long, and each semester will include 10 sessions,ā€ Russell Sageā€™s website adds. ā€œThe program allows participants to explore aspects of voice, like pitch, inflection, resonance, articulation, and loudness.ā€

According to Campus Reform, ā€œRussell Sageā€™s program is based on a similar program at The College of Saint Rose, which recently announced that it will close this month. The professor who co-founded Saint Roseā€™s transgender voice modification program, Jack Pickering, has explained that the goal of the program is to 'enhance' a personā€™s identity.ā€

ā€œYouā€™re taking a flute and making it play like a piccolo. Youā€™re trying to make the instrument play differently ā€“ not to treat a problem, but to help enhance a personā€™s identity,ā€ said Pickering.


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