Texas A&M University President Mark Welsh III and his wife, Betty Welsh, exit the Texas A&M administration building during a send-off on campus Friday in College Station, Texas. (Meredith Seaver/AP)
The consequences were delivered with remarkable speed once the video surfaced of a teacher at Texas A&M University talking about a book with a nonbinary character. The class was studying children’s literature, and a student confronted the instructor over whether the discussion of gender was legal.
A day after a video of the exchange began circulating, the instructor was fired, the department head and dean were removed from their posts, and the Justice Department said it would look into the matter. Ten days later, as cries from the right continued to echo across the internet, the university president said he was resigning, bringing the tenure of a retired four-star general to an unexpected and abrupt halt.
Now the state lawmaker who led the campaign against them says he’s being inundated with tips about what he characterized as offensive efforts to indoctrinate students. “This is just the start,” Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison, a conservative firebrand, told The Washington Post. “I hope this puts the fear of God into every university president and chancellor in Texas.”
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