Updated September 21, 2025
Transgender discussions in class, and transgender language in course material will be hounded off college campuses in Texas, following orders from Pres. Donald Trump, and Gov. Greg Abbott, according to news reports, and information from a meeting with the leadership of Angelo State University.
The Concho Observer was furnished with the following information regarding new Transgender policies at the school.
According to our understanding of new policy:
- There is to be no discussion of transgender topics or any topics that suggest there are more than two genders as determined by one’s biological sex at birth.
- Information in syllibi about transgender topics must be removed.
- Instructors must refer to students by their given names and not their preferred names.
- Safe-space stickers, LGBTQ flags, etc. are not allowed and must be removed.
- All employees are to remove pronouns from email signatures.
- The university will not back up or defend faculty who teach these topics or discuss them in class.
According to a statement from ASU Director of Communications and Marketing Brittney Miller “Angelo State University is a public institute of higher education and is therefore subject to both state and federal law, executive orders and directives from the President of the United States, and executive orders and directives from the Governor of Texas. As such, Angelo State fully complies with the letter of the law.”
Update September 21, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.
The Concho Observer has confirmed that ASU will be holding mandatory meetings for all faculty and staff starting tomorrow Monday September 22, 2025. There are at least three meetings scheduled in various rooms on campus and all employees are required to attend one of them. Apparently legal staff will be present at the meetings to explain the new policies. According to our sources faculty have been told that if they make any statement implying that there are more than two sexes or genders (male and female) they will be fired.
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So much for academic freedom. What are these yahoos AFRAID of? That students will be exposed to IDEAS? You just can’t make this stuff up. And this is from the “free speech” crowd. Yeah, as if …
BINGO. let’s say i agree with there being only two genders… to censor is still wrong.
if those people have such faith in biological essentalism. they woudln’t need to fight so hard.
remember all these college administrators, lawyers, media moguls, and others who collaborate with the fascists. They will all be inexorably strapped to its rotting husk once things fall back to Earth again, as they most certainly will.
As a trans alumni, it’s disgraceful what this school has become. And it was no great schooling to begin with.
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Whether I agree or not here is unimportant. To ban even the discussion of a topic among adults is simply un-American, and just bad for education. Students should be allowed to discuss issues openly with faculty, to agree, or disagree. The college shouldn’t necessarily push a believe system officially either way. But to ban its discussion is ridiculous. I’m ashamed for the first time to be an alumni.
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