(Texas Scorecard) – A Texas A&M class is pushing radical gender ideology on students.
Titled Queer Theory, the class is not entry-level. Rather, enrolling in the class requires 6 credit hours of previous coursework completed within the field of Women’s and Gender Studies.
According to the syllabus, the spring 2025 class instructs students how to “describe queer theory and its emergence,” and how to apply it “to various social issues and analyze how queer theory contributes to our understanding of society.”
Another class aim is to teach students how to “interrogate and debate the meaning of the term ‘queer’.”
The class is taught by instructor Koyel Khan, who received her PhD from the University of Connecticut and specializes in globalization, sex, gender, and race.
The class syllabus lists the topic of each week as it pertains to the class’ required readings. Examples include:
- Week 2: Introduction to Queer Theory
- Week 3: Transgender and Queer Studies
- Week 7: Outing the Closet
- Week 8: Asexuality, Queerness, and Representation
- Week 10: Queer Migration, Queer Visibility and Invisibility
“Queer Theory Now,” by Hannah McCann and Whitney Monaghan, is one of the required books for the course. In the first chapter, the authors wrote that “queer theory questions the foundations of sexual identity.”
McCann and Monaghan claim that historically, the term “queer” has embodied a desire for “a different kind of thinking and engagement with questions of sexuality, gender, identity, power and the politics of oppression.”
For years, Texas A&M University has been a hotbed for radical gender ideology.
But recently, the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, which is accountable for managing TAMU, has made counter moves.
In February, the regents banned on-campus drag shows across all 11 universities, stating that drag performances are inconsistent with Aggie values and demean women. The ban would have prevented the annual “Draggieland” cross-dressing festival from taking place.
However, a federal judge subsequently blocked the regents’ decision in late March. This allowed the drag show to proceed as planned on campus.
Attorney General Ken Paxton appealed the judge’s ruling, calling the show “obscene and illegal.”
TAMU’s Queer Theory class is likely an example of what is occurring at other universities in Texas. Texas A&M didn’t respond to a request for comment on the class.