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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