Texas Tech System Tells Faculty to ‘Recognize’ Only Two Sexes in Lessons
“in your role as a state employee, compliance with the law is required, and I trust in your professionalism to carry out these responsibilities in a manner that reflects well on our universities”
Little by little, things are swinging back to the sanity side.
The College Fix reports:
Texas Tech system orders faculty to ‘recognize’ only two sexes in class lessons
In a memo dated September 25, Texas Tech University System Chancellor Tedd Mitchell informed all the presidents of affiliated schools that in-class instruction must note there are only two sexes, so as to comply with “state and federal law, executive orders, and directives issued” by President Trump and Governor Abbott.
“While recognizing the First Amendment rights of employees in their personal capacity,” Mitchell’s memo reads, “faculty must comply with these laws in the instruction of students, within the course and scope of their employment.
“I recognize that members of our community may hold differing personal views on these matters. Regardless, in your role as a state employee, compliance with the law is required, and I trust in your professionalism to carry out these responsibilities in a manner that reflects well on our universities.”
The Texas Tech system includes Texas Tech U., Angelo State University, Midwestern State University, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso.
Texas law does recognize that “people can be born with a disorder of sex development or intersex, meaning having sex characteristics that do not fit binary definitions of male or female,” NBC News.com reports.
The head of the Texas LGBTQ advocacy organization Equality Texas claimed the mandate “harms” students.
“Free speech is the backbone of American Democracy,” Brad Pritchett said. “We cannot stand idly by while the lives of our trans neighbors are erased from the history books.”
Pritchett added “Students deserve universities where professors fearlessly observe and question our world—limiting classroom discussion and research topics will only degrade our state’s standing in the world of academia.”
Earlier this month, Texas Tech English lecturer Melissa McCoul was fired after a student whistleblower had challenged her lessons on “gender identity and gender fluid themes.” The NBC News report notes the head of the English department and a dean also were terminated.
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Now you need building-size posters.
“MEN AND WOMEN — BECAUSE IT’S THE LAW!”
In honor of which, I notice that Netflix just added Idiocracy to their streaming offerings this week.
Everything is “free speech” when they can’t indoctrinate and bully all who don’t agree. I hope all public universities follow suit and fire hundreds of faculty throughout the state in the next year. Maybe other states will follow suit or the feds should start penalizing all universities for pushing critical theory and anti-Semitism into every lecture.