California professor snarls 'this lesbian has had plenty of girlfriends with penises!'

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A lesbian professor at a California university loudly proclaimed that she has had girlfriends with penises during a public meeting on Tuesday.

Jamie O'Quinn, an assistant sociology professor at Cal State San Bernardino, made the unusual declaration during a meeting of the California State University Board of Trustees.

She was responding to statements other speakers made in support of an enforcement action filed in January by the Department of Education against San Jose State University, which alleges that the university violated Title IX by allowing a transgender woman to compete on the women's volleyball team.

At least eight people, ranging from concerned citizens to activists, expressed concern that San Jose State is not acquiescing to the federal government's demand to separate sports and locker room facilities by sex.

O'Quinn was seemingly set off by one woman who said that lesbians 'don't have penises'.

'I'm frustrated that I'm going to have to use my time today to talk about transphobia instead of the cuts that are impacting our students and our faculty every day,' said O'Quinn, who describes herself as a feminist scholar-activist.

She continued: 'It seems like there's a bit of a misunderstanding that a lot of the folks calling in have about the difference between sex and gender. Uh, spoiler alert, both are socially constructed.'

'Male and female are binaries on a spectrum,' she said. 'The idea that I have to get up here and say that trans women are women...is absurd. Shame on you. Shame on all of you. And shame on you for using lesbian politics as a front for your transphobia because this lesbian has had plenty of girlfriends with penises.'

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