(Texas Scorecard) – Texas A&M signage on campus includes a photo of students sporting temporary tattoos featuring an LGBT flag with the university’s logo.
The photo collage signage, displayed at the Memorial Student Center, includes the photo in a section that reads “Living. Learning. Loving.”
“It’s been up since 2019 and there have been no complaints or concerns shared with the university about the collage. Too, it is in compliance with state laws,” a spokesperson for Texas A&M told Texas Scorecard.
Texas A&M has continually promoted LGBT ideology and “transgender” activists.
An A&M post on X shows that these LGBT “pride” temporary tattoos with the university’s logo were distributed in March 2022 at the Pride Center, which has now been rebranded to the Student Life Center after Senate Bill 17 banned DEI initiatives.
In August 2022, Texas A&M University Press published a book about famed transgender activist and former Aggie Phyllis—born Phillip—Frye. The publisher immediately notified TAMU students and employees about the book in a promotional email.
Self-described trans widow and former Texas A&M student Tracy Shannon took issue with the book’s content. She told Texas Scorecard that Frye “is responsible for the trans movement taking Texas by stealth.”
Frye has indeed had an outsized impact on Texas A&M and its students.
Just this past March to continue Frye’s legacy, A&M OUTlaw, an official student organization for LGBTQ+ law students, hosted a “Name and Gender Marker Change Clinic.” Frye pioneered the push for changing sex on forms of identification.
In 2020, the Texas A&M Student Senate passed an “LGBTQ+ Pride Month” resolution recognizing Frye’s “contributions to the transgender community.”
The university itself has celebrated Frye’s efforts since 2009 when Texas A&M named an award after Frye under the Division of Student Affairs and the Office of Diversity.
The website was taken down soon after SB 17 prohibited universities from having an office of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Texas A&M’s support of the radical gender ideology appears in conflict with one of the institution’s core values: respect.
“We believe people matter,” the university’s website states.
Yet Dr. Andre Van Mol, co-chair of the American College of Pediatrician’s Committee on Adolescent Sexuality, has said that it’s impossible to change one’s sex, and doing so doesn’t improve one’s mental health. “Fad medicine is bad medicine, and gender anxious people deserve better than the rush to transition,” Van Mol said. Texas Scorecard’s 2022 investigative series examined multiple scientific reports and professionals that sounded alarms about transgender procedures.
Texas Scorecard asked the Texas A&M University Board of Regents for comment on the promotion of LGBT ideology. No response was received before publication.
