In some classroom activities, students and teachers together have replaced terms like “mother,” “father” and “biological parent” with the more inclusive neologisms “gene givers,” “storks” and “Biological Life Transmitters” – or “BLTs” for short.
This anecdote represents the current trend in biology, and it shows no signs of slowing.
Activists within STEM demand biology be more welcoming to LGBTQ students by doing more to affirm their identities — even if that means overhauling how several important topics are taught — to reduce purported harms inflicted upon LGBTQ students.
