I would never want to teach in Texas…I wouldn’t even want to live in such a place. As an example, here’s a case of a dogmatic student objecting to the instruction in a class that mentions gender. This is from a right-wing twitter account where the tweeter approves of the student.
🚨CAUGHT ON TAPE: TEXAS A&M STUDENT KICKED OUT OF CLASS AFTER OBJECTING TO TRANSGENDER INDOCTRINATION… and A&M President defends "LGBTQ Studies."
I'm referring @TAMU to the Trump Administration for investigation… and asking Gov @GregAbbott_TX to fire the A&M officials… pic.twitter.com/J6IWsfw62I
— Brian Harrison (@brianeharrison) September 8, 2025
CAUGHT ON TAPE: TEXAS A&M STUDENT KICKED OUT OF CLASS AFTER OBJECTING TO TRANSGENDER INDOCTRINATION… and A&M President defends “LGBTQ Studies.”
I’m referring @TAMU 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 and LGBTQ indoctrination.
Hidden camera video and audio, letters to the Trump Administration and Governor Abbott, as well as some of the course materials my office has obtained, are in 🧵 below.
If you don’t want to listen to the video, the instructor starts by briefly reviewing some basic concepts in gender and sexuality, and one student pipes up to say that she thinks the course content is illegal, because according to our president, there’s only two genders, and that he would be freezing agency’s funding programs that promote gender ideology
and that it also goes against people’s religious beliefs, two arguments that I would never ever want to hear in the classroom. Authoritarian pronouncements from a dictator and religious beliefs are never a sound basis for reasonable understanding.
This student chooses to argue with the instructor, and incidentally reveals that she has no understanding of material that had been discussed in a previous class.
Can you explain to us how teaching us about gender identity and transgenderism and that there’s more sexes than…“My gender isn’t illegal,” the teacher interrupts.
Huh?“My gender isn’t illegal,” she repeats.
Gender? What do you mean?
Your gender is not illegal? According to President Trump’s executive order, it…“If you are uncomfortable in this class, you do have the right to leave. What we are doing is not illegal, and if you would make the claim that it is you need to talk to the department head, or the head of undergraduates.”
The student then refuses to participate, and says she has an appointment with the university president to complain about this course.
She does more than that. She meets with the Texas A&M president and asks that the instructor be fired.
Audio of student asking Texas A&M President to fire the professor who kicked her out and who was blatantly indoctrinating students in transgender ideology.
A&M President snaps back at student: "THAT'S NOT HAPPENING!"
Listen: pic.twitter.com/xK8QTrjzEi
— Brian Harrison (@brianeharrison) September 8, 2025
Audio of student asking Texas A&M President to fire the professor who kicked her out and who was blatantly indoctrinating students in transgender ideology.
A&M President snaps back at student: “THAT’S NOT HAPPENING!”
Exactly right. You don’t fire faculty because opinionated students disagree with course content, even if the student claims that it was indoctrination.
Teaching is a matter of explaining concepts that students don’t initially understand; reciting ideas that students already know and only regurgitating their opinions is not teaching, it’s memorizing dogma.
Unfortunately, after giving a brief lesson in reality to the student, the president of Texas A&M later issued a statement.
I learned this afternoon that key leaders in the College of Arts and Sciences approved plans to continue teaching course content that was not consistent with the course’s published description. As a result, I directed the provost to remove the dean and department head from their administrative positions, effective immediately. Our students use the published information in the course catalog to make important decisions about the courses they take in pursuit of their degrees. If we allow different course content to be taught from what is advertised, we let our students down. When it comes to our academic offerings, we must keep our word to our students and to the state of Texas.
The excuse is now that the course catalog does not include a summary of all the concepts an instructor might introduce in a course. Uh-oh. My genetics course doesn’t have a catalog entry that mentions that I teach about the fallacies of genetic determinism, racism, and historical development of the chromosome theory of inheritance, so I guess my class faces the threat of being declared anathema…except that my university administration isn’t packed with dogmatic assholes on a crusade to purge science.
I’d say that Texas professors need to get the hell out of that shithole state, but they already know it. Professors want to leave Texas because of tense political climate, survey says.
Many Texas professors are looking for jobs in different states, citing a climate of fear and anxiety on their college campuses due to increased political interference, according to a recent survey conducted by the American Association of University Professors.
The survey interviewed nearly 4,000 faculty across the southern U.S., including more than 1,100 from Texas. About a quarter of the Texas professors said they have applied for higher education jobs in other states in the last two years, and more than 25% said they soon intend to start searching for out-of-state positions. Of those who aren’t thinking of leaving, more than one-fifth said they don’t plan to stay in higher education in the long-term.
“Morale is down,” said one Texas faculty member at a public four-year university in a written response. “Friends have lost contracts for no discernable [sic] reason. We live in fear of using the wrong word. We self-censor. We do not have academic freedom.”
The top reason faculty cited in the survey for wanting to change jobs was the state’s broad political climate. In Texas, faculty have criticized new state laws banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs in universities; requiring university governing boards to establish policies on granting and revoking tenure; and limiting faculty’s role in crafting courses and hiring colleagues. Other reasons included salary and academic freedom concerns, the survey found.
Unfortunately, it’s not just Texas. Thanks to federal policies that mirror those of Texas, professors in 50 states want to get the hell out of this country.
As bad as the doofus ignoramus student who picks a fight with a science teacher over whether the earth is billions of years old or not only because the student wholly embraces Dumb Idiot Ken Ham’s empty-headed “pronouncements” and what the Bible allegedly says.
A friend of mine is a Chem E professor at our local university, and a leading researcher in organic photovoltaics. He has discovered a new way to print organic electron donors and acceptors onto windows to make them into transparent solar panels. His funding is gone, his grad students are gone, and now that knowledge will likely go to Germany because he’s looking to leave the US and get a job at a university there. The diaspora is real.
We’ve seen something similar many times with the creationists and teaching the Theory of Evolution in schools and universities.
.1. Teaching about a subject isn’t the same as indoctrination.
.2. Teaching about a subject isn’t the same as requiring people to believe in the subject or anything.
The students are expected to learn what science and scientists have found out about evolution and the Theory of Evolution.
We can’t make them believe or accept the Theory of Evolution.
That is up to them.
Everyone is free to believe whatever they want to.
This issue comes up often over anything that is remotely controversial.
e pur si muove…
This will likely spread, certainly to other schools in Texas if not to other parts of the country. I can see students enrolling in Gender Studies, Black Studies and Black History classes just to argue with professors and call the curriculum “illegal” based on what the president is doing.
The country is cooked.
This happened decades ago.
There is nothing new here at all.
Classes and programs in Gender studies, Black studies, Latino studies, anything to do with DEI, economics and inequality, etc.. have been under attack for as long as most college students have been alive.
To take one minor example. Peter Boghossian at Portland State attacked…”university favoritism toward ideologies focused on racial equity and social justice, ” and resigned when everyone told him he was a dumb creep.
What is wrong with racial equity and social justice anyway?
These attacks on the Universities are ubiquitous and happening everywhere but mostly in Red states. Here is what the American Association of University Professors has to say about it.
The universities have a lot more problems than one clueless Karen student.
The GOP Red states have been passing bills attacking their universities any way they can.
It is the usual perpetrators, Florida, Texas, Tennessee etc..
I stopped when she said, “my president’s laws.”
Raven: “What is wrong with racial equity and social justice anyway?”
Nothing, as long as it’s reserved for white men.
Which is exactly what the right was saying about “political correctness” back in the 90s when they claimed the left controlled the universities.
Not trying to equivocate here. I just noticed the similarities.
A ray of hope: I met some people from Texas, also some people from Louisiana this past weekend visiting Massachusetts. They gave me some nice compliments on my “Anti Trump AF” T-shirt. Not all southerners are mindless Trump acolytes.
@ Akira MacKenzie, # 10: The right came up with the phrase “political correctness.” Pretty sure it was Rush Limbaugh; the left had nothing to do with that phrase.
I think it’s kinda sad that not one of the other students in that class piped up to call out that girl’s stupidity and bigotry. It wouldn’t have kept any of those teachers from getting fired, of course, but it would have at least showed the world (and the girl herself) that Retrumplitarian stupidity is not always going unchallenged.
So, those students probably lost credits for that class; I assume it was canceled.
But, this is Texas Aggie U, not exactly the brightest. Ain’t all those Aggie joke for nothing.
The little peckerwood also complained that the course offended her “religious beliefs,” as if those matter one jot.
Boos all around at Aggie U from the Prez down. Sad state of affairs (although, to be truthful, Texas is the “state of affairs.” Just ask the AG.
christoph @12, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness#History does not align with your belief.