Texas A&M Furor Tosses State Into LGBTQ Debate

The firing of a Texas A&M professor, two administrators, and the university president’s subsequent resignation ignited a firestorm over LGBTQ instruction on college campuses in Texas, The Hill reported Thursday.

What began as the recording of a confrontation with an English literature professor during a summer class has embroiled Texas in a fight over the indoctrination of students versus the free speech rights of professors.

The flap began in Texas A&M’s summer “Literature for Children” class. Professor Melissa McCoul led a discussion of “Jude Saves the World,” a novel about a nonbinary 12-year-old, and used the “gender unicorn” graphic to explain gender identity, expression, and sexuality, The Texas Tribune reported.

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