The president of Texas A&M University removed the dean and department head of the school’s College of Arts and Sciences on Monday after anti-LGBTQ+ Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison (R) shared a video of a literature student complaining about a professor mentioning gender identity. On Monday, Harrison wrote the Trump administration and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), demanding “immediate action” to end “LGBTQ indoctrination” in taxpayer-funded universities.

In the video, shared by anti-LGBTQ+ Texas Rep. Brian Harrison, a student tells the professor that it’s “not legal” to teach about “gender ideology” because “according to our president, there’s only two genders.” The student mentioned that the president has frozen federal funds from organizations that acknowledge the existence of transgender people.

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“This also goes very much against, not only myself, but a lot of people’s religious beliefs,” the student continued. “So I am not going to participate in this because it’s not legal, and I don’t want to promote something that is against our president’s laws, as well as against my own religious beliefs.”

The president hasn’t signed any laws forbidding professors from discussing trans issues in university classrooms. Also, many religions recognize and affirm the existence and divinity of trans people.

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The professor told the student that if they were uncomfortable, they had the right to leave and to discuss their complaint with the department head. The student then said that they had a meeting with the university president to discuss all of their “documentation.”

“I’m not sure that your proposal will be effective in stopping me from teaching things that are biologically true because I do have the legal and ethical authority and, moreover, the professional authority in this classroom,” the professor tells the student, before adding, “It’s time for you to leave now.”

Reposting the student’s video to X, state Rep. Harrison wrote, “I’m referring [Texas A&M University] to the Trump Administration for investigation… and asking Gov. @GregAbbott_TX to fire the A&M officials involved and to instruct his Regents at all public universities to immediately end all DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] and LGBTQ indoctrination.”

Source: LGBTQ Nation