{"id":29462,"date":"2012-04-11T03:06:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T07:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29462"},"modified":"2012-04-11T03:06:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T07:06:34","slug":"fbi-analyst-sues-over-gender-specific-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29462","title":{"rendered":"FBI analyst sues over gender specific standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a case that might have far reaching implications for the military an FBI analyst is suing the FBI for gender discrimination. Two years ago Jay Bauer was undergoing the Bureau’s Special Agent training curriculum when he was dropped from the pipeline<\/a> after he failed his physical fitness test by a push up. Up to failing his PT test he was at the top of his class. He’s suing, correctly pointing out that a female applicant with his test scores would not have been dropped. <\/p>\n

An intelligence analyst for the FBI in Chicago who allegedly missed becoming a special agent by a single pushup has filed a gender-discrimination lawsuit alleging that the FBI’s fitness test is flawed and biased against men.<\/p>\n

Jay Bauer, a Northwestern University doctoral graduate, joined the FBI in 2009 after leaving the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee as an assistant professor in its communication sciences department, according to the lawsuit filed last week in federal court in Chicago.<\/p>\n

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His attorneys argued that a female trainee who scored near the bottom of the class in firearms proficiency was given another attempt at the fitness test, but Bauer wasn’t.<\/p>\n

They also argued that the FBI’s fitness standards \u2014 which before 2003 required men to do 25 pushups \u2014 are comparatively harder for males. Female trainees must complete at least 14 untimed pushups, an amount equal to 27 to 29 for men, the lawsuit says, citing a database maintained by a fitness consultant the FBI worked with in drafting the guidelines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now I’m immediately torn. On one hand I’m inclined to tell him to man up and move on. He knew, with plenty of warning, exactly what the standards where for him to progress and he failed to adequately prepare for them. Barring physical handicap there is no reason a healthy man young enough for FBI Special Agent training can’t discipline himself to perform 40 push ups. I’m a fat, lazy civilian now and I can do 40 damn push ups.<\/p>\n

On the other hand standards are only standards if they’re, well…standard. The entire concept of differing standards of physical readiness based on gender in high risk professions, in which the safety and mission readiness of the personnel involved depends on physical fitness, is an absurd acquiescence to political degradation. This is to not even scratch the perverse and convoluted social structures created by treating people who identify with the gender norms of the opposite sex as a politically protected class of people. I can imagine it now, male troops having failed PT tests coming in to work and declaring themselves to now be transgendered and demanding they be evaluated as females. <\/p>\n

So, in the end, I hope Bauer does win. It would be a good start to tearing down the entire notion that the physical demands of combat or law enforcement cares about your gender identity or sex. On the other hand, seeing as how Mr Bauer is now the guy who couldn’t do the man push ups and is trying to sue his way into the Special Agent club, it might be best if he were to remain in a cubicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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