Letter to Mayo Clinic on Free Speech and Academic Freedom

One more reason to NOT pursue a career at the Mayo. Please, Hold the Mayo accountable.

Freedom of Speech should be protected in academic institutions

This is pure infringement on Dr. Joyner's ability to comment on the endocrine process and physiologic effects of male puberty. If his descriptions of these scientifically based effects on muscle mass and function run counter transgender female identification, let the transgender community present evidence that this does not occur. I have no problem with transgender identification, a psychological gender identification issue. I take issue with the politically based notion that physiology has to follow psycjological gender identification. To define this as being transphobic is patently ridiculous, and to discipline Dr. Joyner over this is no different, in political temperament, than Putin killing anyone who expresses disagreement with his Ukraine invasion. This is fascistic in its very basis. There is fascism of the Right, and there is Fascism of the Left. Mayo, rather than discussing the data or physiological processes of puberty and sex-based physiological differences, is contributing to the latter by disciplining Dr. Joyner. You should be ashamed of yourselves!

Anyone who knows Dr. Joyner will stand behind him.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Associate Professor Wayne State University

Academic freedom first and foremost.

Humana-Germany-Sherman Distinguished Professor School of Kinesiology Auburn University

Professor Department of Kinesiology University of Wisconsin

Distinguished Professor of Medicine University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Associate Chair for Research Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Harvard Medical School

Emeritus Consultant, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic.

Massimo Franchini, MD - Director, Department of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Carlo Poma Hospital (Mantova, Italy)

Let there be light!

Emeritus Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology University of Wisconsin-Madison

Columbia University

Assistant Professor, Department of Human Physiology, University of Oregon

Dr. Joyner’s comments are fully within Mayo’s stated Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom Policy as scholarly opinion. His being silenced and the accompanying character assassination are egregious.

Professor of Human Physiology, University of Oregon