From DailyWire.com…
On Thursday, The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles traveled to Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, after being invited by the Washburn College Republicans to give a speech about radical gender ideology. The event, which happened to occur on the same day as International Trans Visibility Day, was apparently signed off on by the school’s president, Jerry Farley. Yet on Tuesday, Farley sent a campus-wide email condemning Knowles for — as the school’s president put it — having a “history of inciting fear and distrust.”
In reaction to that email, Knowles challenged Farley to join him on stage Thursday and rebut his idea that boys cannot become girls. The president was a no-show on the offer, but anti-Knowles students and community members appeared on campus grounds nearly three hours before the event to protest the conservative speaker.
Young America’s Foundation, which is also involved in Knowles’ talk, reported that Farley told the campus community that a “Washburn student organization has invited a speaker to campus who has a history of inciting fear and distrust.”
“While I am strongly in the support of first amendment rights, I am disappointed when those rights are used to make others feel unwelcome and even unsafe in our community,” Farley explained.
He added that he does “not condone the hate and misinformation spread by the speaker and his supporters.”
