The University of Texas at Austin plans on hosting workshops that allegedly advance “far-Left gender ideology.”
With the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year fast approaching, UT Austin’s Gender and Sexuality Center is putting on a series of workshops with titles like “Working Towards Gender Justice” and “Affirming LGBTQIA+ People.”
“[Gender and Sexuality Center] staff will talk about all the resources that are available to all UT communities, and offer a mini-training on allyship that is condensed to address pronouns and basic intervention strategies,” reads the center’s workshop schedule. The workshops began on Tuesday.
A handout on the “Daily Effects of Heterosexual Privilege” lists over two dozen “examples of the privilege that heterosexual (or straight) people have.” The handout further claims that “[l]esbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, and queer people have a range of different experiences but cannot count on most of these conditions in their lives.”
Among the examples listed are:
- “If my family or friends find out about my sexual orientation there will not be economic, physical, or psychological consequences.”
- “That as a child I didn’t experience games that attack my sexual orientation (i.e. f-g tag or smear the queer).”
- “I won’t be asked to speak for everyone who is heterosexual.”
The session titled “Affirming LGBTQIA+ People: Interpersonal Allyship” is billed as an “intersectional workshop for LGBTQIA+ and non-LGBTQIA+ identified people.”
The description claims attendees “will practice identifying — and enacting bystander intervention in — microaggressions around gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and romantic orientation.”
Participants will be asked to sign a pledge to “[affirm] lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, and transgender people” and to “challenge the oppressions that impact LGBTQIA+ communities, including homophobia, biphobia, heterosexism, acephobia, transphobia, cisgenderism, and binary systems.”
Another workshop allegedly teaches “how racism, homophobia, and transphobia amplify and are interconnected with sexism.”
“Taxpayer-funded universities should not be using resources on any LGBTQ+ initiatives,” local activist Kelly Neidert of Protect Texas Kids told The Dallas Express. “UT’s new [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] workshops are clearly full of far-Left gender ideology and have no real educational value.”
The Dallas Express reached out to UT Austin’s Gender and Sexuality Center and the Transgender Education Network of Texas for comment but received no response by press time.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, UT Austin’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement recently donated $5,000 to an upcoming all-ages LGBTQ Pride event set to feature a “Drag Queen Story Time” for children scheduled for August 12.
