Texas A&M has maintained a digest of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) course offerings, even as other state collegiate institutions shed the ideology.

An investigation from The Dallas Express uncovered a set of ideological progressive courses and programs offered by one of Texas’s most iconic universities. These include Bachelor’s Degrees in Women’s and Gender Studies, academic minors in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies, as well as Gender and Health.

However, these programs were not alone in their themes and topics. A&M has Graduate-Level certificates in Women’s & Gender studies. This is supplemented by courses (across all levels) that include:

  • Feminist Inquiry and Research Methods
  • Feminist Theory
  • Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
  • Gender, Race, and Media
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Literatures
  • Introduction to Health Disparities and Diversity
  • Psychology of Women of Color
  • Queer Theory

As woke public programs have been closed at varying levels of government in recent days, DX reached out to the Board of Regents to ask why these remain.

The Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System are:

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To the extent that the various regents are employed by institutions distinct from themselves or are retired/students, DX reached out to their companies to request comment on why their executives have continued to support institutions of woke programs, even as many corporations scale back leftwing messaging and DEI programs.

Two of the companies DX contacted included FSNS and Opportune LLP, but a response was not received by the time of publication.

Each Regent likewise refused an opportunity to comment.

While these revelations contradict A&M’s image as a relatively conservative state institution, they also contrast with recent executive orders from President Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

President Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management issued an Executive Order just days after Trump retook office. The order directed agencies to strip “gender ideology” from federal websites, contracts, and emails. It likewise mandated executive agencies to disband certain employee organizations and substitute the term “gender” with “sex” on federal forms.

Around this same time, Abbott issued a press release hammering any program that promoted ideologies that espoused a belief that there is more than two sexes. “The State of Texas recognizes only two sexes—male and female—and sex discrimination consists in treating a member of one sex less favorably than the other, absent some pertinent difference,” the presser states.

“Others have sought to distort the guarantee that men and women must be treated equally in order to impose mandates concerning sexual orientation and gender identity. On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, rejecting similar efforts by the Biden-Harris Administration to distort commonsense notions of biological sex. As the Chief Executive Officer of the State, I direct you to follow state and federal law. All Texas agencies must ensure that agency rules, internal policies, employment practices, and other actions comply with the law and the biological reality that there are only two sexes—male and female,” continues Abbott’s press release.

Following up on January 31, Abbott issued an Executive Order that forbids DEI policies and “curricula” in “all state agencies.”

These actions come as some Texas Universities have partially jettisoned gender ideology.

A spokesperson for University of Houston recently told DX that UH had scrapped part of its law school application that allowed users to select “Androgyne, Demigender, Female, Genderqueer or gender fluid, Male, Non-transgender man, Non-transgender woman, Prefer not to say, Questioning or unsure, ‘Transgender’ man, [and] ‘Transgender’ woman,” as their gender.

However, DX simultaneously reported that the UH’s job applications still had a “ze/hir/hirs, ze/zir/zirs” pronoun option.