“Charlie, the professor who got tenure and then had an operation to alter his gender. “
Oh, that case! That was on a different campus so I’m not familiar with the issues, but it is a fact that YU has always hired non-frum and non-Jewish faculty for secular subjects. One reason is that so few frum Jews get PhDs. I once met someone who back in the 1930s was hired instantly one morning by Rabbi Dr. Revel as soon as the Rabbi saw that he had the markings from his tefillin straps on his arm. If more frum Jews would get PhDs we could hire more frum faculty, but at the moment we can’t even get non-Jewish Americans to pursue doctoral study.