Professor Fired For Punishing Student Who Objected To Gender Ideology In Children’s Lit Class

Texas A&M University has terminated a professor and removed senior staff from their positions after a student was ejected ed from class for speaking out against a gender ideology lesson.

A viral video from inside the classroom showed a student in a children’s literature course objecting during a professor’s lesson on “gender and sexuality,” saying she believed it violated the law. The professor responded that she could not be stopped from “teaching things that are biologically true” and had the “legal and ethical authority” to cover the subject, before ordering the student to leave.

“According to our president, there’s only two genders,” the student says, alleging that the instruction “very much goes against not only myself but a lot of people’s religious beliefs.”

“This afternoon, following full consideration of the facts related to this situation, I directed the Provost to terminate the professor involved, effective immediately,” A&M president General Mark A. Welsh III said in a message to the community. “Please understand that these decisions were mine alone and were not made lightly.”

The course content was flagged during the summer for failing to “align with any reasonable expectation of standard curriculum for the course,” but was approved to continue by the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the head of the English department, according to Welsh.

In an initial statement on Facebook, Welsh announced Monday he had “directed the provost to remove the dean and department head from their administrative positions, effective immediately.”

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Welsh elaborated in the full statement posted at the A&M website on Tuesday, explaining that those involved had ignored previous directives and continued with the content.

“After this issue was raised, college and department leadership worked with students to offer alternative opportunities for students to complete the course, and made changes to ensure this course content does not continue in future semesters,” he wrote. “At that time, I made it clear to our academic leadership that course content must match catalog descriptions for each and every one of our course sections.”

“However, I learned late yesterday that despite that directive, the college continued to teach content that was inconsistent with the published course description for another course this fall,” the university president continued. “As a result, I took the above administrative actions.”

College deans and department heads throughout the university were also directed to audit course offerings “to ensure they align with the course descriptions.” (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: GOP Sens Take On Schools Transitioning Kids Behind Parents’ Backs)

“When it comes to our academic offerings, we must keep faith with our students and with the state of Texas,” the message concluded. “This isn’t about academic freedom; it’s about academic responsibility.”

The Trump administration announced on Jan. 20 it was adopting the biological definition of male and female and further banned schools from “Imprinting anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies on our Nation’s children,” including teaching gender ideology. Noncompliance with the directive could spell massive federal funding cuts for schools.

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