UMinn bias report: Someone said ‘mothers’ instead of ‘lactating individuals’

Someone complained that either a graduate student or a professor used biologically correct language when referring to women, according to a bias report obtained by The College Fix. Among the more than 100 Bias Response and Referral Network reports filed between July 2024 and March 2026, were three that addressed the same controversy. A graduate student reported someone for complaining about “having to change grant proposal language from ‘mothers’ to ‘lactating individuals,’” according to the October 2025 report. The spreadsheet only labels the alleged offender as a “respondent.” The Fix obtained a spreadsheet of bias reports via a public records...