squeak, there is an expression ” ha-ahavah mekalkeles es hashuro” It means that excessive love for someone blinds one to the faults of that person. In your case, you can say the opposite; “hasinnah mekalkeles es hasuro”. Your intense dislike (dare I say hatred?) for YU and the so-called Modern orthodox jews has corrupted your judgment.
I know little of the ay club and the transgender professor, and I daresay that it is not part of YU but of one of the satellite schools and has more to do with the law of the land than the “tolerance” of the YU direction. As far as the Bible criticism class,again, I know little of it and I don’t even know if such a class exists.However, many Gedolim in the nineteenth century, chief amongst them the Malbim, had to answer the Bible criticism of that era and I am pretty sure that they knew about the various questions coming from that oorner. By definiton, they knew about Bible criticism and therefore had to have studied it.
Of course, you did not deny anything I wrote about Hirschian philosphy so I daresay you agree with me on the basics. I am not sure it was nirvana but ,clearly, it was the source of yiddishkeit for tens of thousands of real ‘ehrliche’ yidden for a century and a half. (For the record, I am not of German ancestry and find the “dryness” of their tradition too constricting)