April 5, 2023
Mr. Kevin Hallock
President of the University of Richmond
410 Westhampton Way
Richmond, VA 23173
Dear Mr. Hallock:
The chief advantage of the written word over other forms of communication is its longevity. For instance, this letter will live on for generations long after you and I are on this earth. What this letter might do is illustrate to the world the weak-kneed cowardice of those running the University of Richmond. It might implicate you and the Board of Trustees for your culpability in ruining the lives, if not helping to end the lives of many people. On the other hand, it might signal to posterity that at a critical time of confusion and mass delusion, the members of the Board of Trustees took a stand, acted courageously, and led the rest of academia away from evil. I fervently hope for the latter scenario.
I speak to you about the University’s insane policies that encourage and proselytize gender transformation. The University actually advocates that a new “kind of human” can be created by lopping off the sex organs of its students and shooting them up with dangerous hormonal drugs. Your policies are causing tremendous damage to a generation of young people. The University is serving “Jim Jones” punch to very impressionable young people. Indeed, the atmosphere on UR’s campus where students can be punished for having thoughts contrary to its woke agenda is not much different than the cult in Guyana. I am sure you know that I wrote to Ms. Propst and asked if I could pay for a national author to come to campus and speak about gender dysphoria, its cultish roots and the incredible harm being done to young people. The fact that the University will not entertain an opposing viewpoint is proof positive that the University is proselytizing this destructive social movement. It should be held accountable.
Men and women are different. There are trillions of cells in the human body. Every one of the cells in a man’s body is different from every cell in a woman’s body. This makeup is “set in stone” before birth. Men and women’s molecular structure is markedly different in literally trillions of ways, in every part of the body including all of the body’s organs. In short, a man cannot become a woman and a woman cannot become a man.
Those with gender dysphoria have a mental illness. Almost always this condition is imputed into the subject through various forms of social inculcations. By enabling, indeed indoctrinating young people under your care that their confusion and unhappiness is a result of being a different sex from their biological sex is complete and utter madness. Your faculty advocates mutilating children’s bodies. It is a Dr. Mengele type evil, and it is truly frightening that you and the Board do not have the guts to denounce the utter nonsense that your faculty promotes.
The University’s rabid, indeed unhinged promotion of transgenderism by so many members of your faculty is symptomatic of the mass group-think psychosis that has complete control of the University of Richmond (as well as other universities). History is replete with examples of mass psychosis. Eventually these episodes wear off and society then asks in disbelief, “how in the world did we let this happen?”
The lunacy of this movement should be apparent to all those whose reasoning powers have not been corrupted. Moreover, the medical evidence of the destructive nature of gender transformation is overwhelming and the University is knowingly complicit in this destruction. The engineering of the human body is almost beyond comprehension, containing incredible complexities and interconnectedness. The hubris of thinking that modern “social warriors” can tinker with this grand design by “playing God” is stunning. The policies that the university advocates disfigure and destroy bodily functions, shortens life expectancy and causes severe lifelong mental and physical damage. Over 80% of transgender people contemplate suicide, and 45% have attempted to kill themselves. The longer one is transgender, the higher the likelihood of suicide, to the point where self-destruction becomes almost inevitable.
College “kids” can be very gullible, especially in our current environment where so many have been sheltered from hardships and inconveniences that virtually every preceding generation endured and indeed expected. The University acts in locus parentis to its student body, yet it is abusing this responsibility in a willful, wanton and grossly negligent manner. The University and frankly members of the Board of Trustees are not only exposing themselves to civil liability for its transgender policies, but to criminal liability as well. There are numerous criminal statutes penalizing persons in authority for encouraging those under their authority to hurt themselves. As the damage being done to a generation of young people becomes evident, I believe prosecutors may very well bring these cases, and the University likely has exposure in every State there is a student.
In a few years, the fog of delusion hovering over the University of Richmond will lift. The damage and smoldering ruins of people’s lives will be visible for all to see. Board members will not be able to wash their hands like Pontius Pilate. They had their chance to stop the carnage, but they didn’t. History will judge you and each Board member as complicit in what historians will surely describe as a great evil.
Should the trustees publicly denounce transgenderism now and eradicate its vestiges from the grounds of the University and encourage other universities to do the same, posterity will remember each trustee as a courageous hero. If not, the scourge of history will be well earned for each trustee.
I plan to publish this letter with the names of each trustee. History will be our judge. The pendulum will swing away from the current insanity, and people will ask, why didn’t they do something?
Very truly yours,
Robert C. Smith
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Stephen J. Aronson
Russell C. Ball
R. Lewis Boggs
Cynthia L. Borger
Jeff A. Brown
Stacy Garett-Ray
Kevin Hallock
H. Hiter Harris III
Kathleen Hughes Bettencourt
Susan M. Humphreville
Tracey H. Ivey
Reginald N. Jones
Mariana Lopez de Lara
Alay Nagpal
Mary-Beth L. Nash
Austin P. Neuhoff
S. Georgia Nugent
Karen G. O’Maley
Mihir J. Patel
Robert E. Rigsby
John A. Roush
Patricia L. Rowland
Kevin R. Seth
Wendell L. Taylor
