A trans professor that was forced to resign from Old Dominion University in Virginia for saying that people should refer to pedophiles as “Minor Attracted Persons” has now been picked up by Johns Hopkins University as a postdoctoral fellow for a Baltimore School on May 24, 2022. Walker uses they/them pronouns and will be working at the Moore Center for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse said Thursday
“We are excited to share that Allyn Walker, PhD, will be joining the Moore Center as a postdoctoral fellow on May 25,” the center said in a statement. They were founded in 2012 as a “research center that creates, through rigorous science, a public health approach to preventing child sexual abuse.”
Walker was forced out of Old Dominion University in Virginia in November of 2021, after 15,000 people signed a petition to have them removed for comments made in a 2021 book titled Long Dark Shadow: Minor Attracted People.
In the book, Walker tries to normalize pedophilia and says that they should be called “Minor Attracted People” instead of pedophiles. They also says that pedophiles should get access to child sex dolls to satisfy their urges and argues that many pedophiles can control their urges.
Walker has a doctorate in criminal justice from New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. They specialize in mental health, queer criminology and “resilience to offending.”
“A lot of people when they hear the word pedophile, they automatically assume that means sex offender. That isn’t true. And it leads to a lot of misconceptions about attractions toward minors,” they said.
“They believe pedophiles don’t “choose” who to be attracted to – so [it] shouldn’t be considered ‘immoral,” they continued.
Listen to Walker describe their reasoning behind using the term “minor attracted person” or MAP in the video below.
Many people have become enraged at Walker over their remarks once they were discovered and called them a criminal apologist. Even the Old Dominion University Trans Advisory Board came out and stated that Walker’s remarks were “reprehensible” and called them damaging to victims of child abuse.
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