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A new memo issued by the Texas Tech University System (TTUS) Chencellor Brandon Creighton redefines LGBTQ+. Instead of the widely recognized acronym, Creighton wants "SOGI"-—which stands for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity—to be used by everyone now under his control.
The memo announced the "phase-out and closure" of all courses "centered on" SOGI in undergraduate majors, minors, certificates and graduate degrees.
The memo said that "instructors may not teach that gender identity is a fluid spectrum, endorse the existence of more than two genders, or decouple gender from biological sex as a factual or scientific baseline" because Republican backed "[Texas] state and federal law [there is no federal law, only an executive order from MAGA Republican President Donald Trump] and TTU System guidance dictate that only two human sexes, male and female, are recognized."
The TTUS memo also placed a first-in-the-nation ban on "unacceptable" masters theses and PhD dissertations.
Such action will make TTUS graduates unqualified for further education or licensure in some fields. For example, psychology and medical degrees require study of these now banned topics in order to qualify for a graduate program outside TTUS and to qualify for professional licenses in most countries.
Ignoring how their bans will impact the success of students proved the goal wasn't the betterment of education, but rather furthering their Christian nationalist, homophobic, transphobic agenda.
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https://www.comicsands.com/texas-tech-lgbtq-ban?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram#Echobox=1777499276
Confirmed elsewhere:
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/10/texas-tech-ban-gender-identity-sexual-orientation-academics/
I guess that means that Plato is, again, off the curriculum.
If Texans secede from the Union again, let them go this time.
@moonbus said"The TTUS memo also placed a first-in-the-nation ban on "unacceptable" masters theses and PhD dissertations.
A new memo issued by the Texas Tech University System (TTUS) Chencellor Brandon Creighton redefines LGBTQ+. Instead of the widely recognized acronym, Creighton wants "SOGI"-—which stands for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity—to be used by everyone now under his control.
The memo announced the "phase-out and closure" of all courses "centered on" SOGI in undergra lato is, again, off the curriculum.
If Texans secede from the Union again, let them go this time.
Such action will make TTUS graduates unqualified for further education or licensure in some fields. For example, psychology and medical degrees require study of these now banned topics in order to qualify for a graduate program outside TTUS and to qualify for professional licenses in most countries."
This is nothing short of outrageous.
I thought we had purged this kind of Neanderthal thinking from science years and years ago.
@Suzianne saidIn effect, TX is dis-accrediting its own university system. Other universities and professional organizations will no longer recognize its degrees as valid.
[b]"The TTUS memo also placed a first-in-the-nation ban on "unacceptable" masters theses and PhD dissertations.
Such action will make TTUS graduates unqualified for further education or licensure in some fields. For example, psychology and medical degrees require study of these now banned topics in order to qualify for a graduate program outside TTUS and to qualify for pr ...[text shortened]... eous.
I thought we had purged this kind of Neanderthal thinking from science years and years ago.
Good professors will leave. Good students will leave. No need to bomb Texas back to the Stone Age; they are doing it to themselves already.
@moonbus saidit still warrants outrage. They may shoot the texan universities in the face but public schools will also be affected. Good students who cannot go to out of universities will also suffer
In effect, TX is dis-accrediting its own university system. Other universities and professional organizations will no longer recognize its degrees as valid.
Good professors will leave. Good students will leave. No need to bomb Texas back to the Stone Age; they are doing it to themselves already.
it's funny sometimes how people too dumb to get educated vote right wing ghouls that harm people that do
@vivify saidIt's thought-control, pure and simple. Like the Church telling Galileo he could not teach that the Earth is a globe which moves, not even as a hypothesis which might be false.
"The TTUS memo also placed a first-in-the-nation ban on "unacceptable" masters theses and PhD dissertations."
This shows it's not "about the children" when they ban such topics from schools. Children don't earn a masters or PhD. It's purely about controlling education to match their ideology.
@moonbus saidThis is why Sheldon Cooper the southerner had trouble deciding between MIT and Cal Tech - but not Texas Tech.
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A new memo issued by the Texas Tech University System (TTUS) Chencellor Brandon Creighton redefines LGBTQ+. Instead of the widely recognized acronym, Creighton wants "SOGI"-—which stands for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity—to be used by everyone now under his control.
The memo announced the "phase-out and closure" of all courses "centered on" SOGI in undergra ...[text shortened]... lato is, again, off the curriculum.
If Texans secede from the Union again, let them go this time.