Parents in Washington’s Cheney School District are speaking out after a ninth-grade English teacher introduced a gender identity lesson without clear approval from the school board.
Mark A. Welsh III, president of Texas A&M University, resigned amid growing backlash over a viral classroom video in which a professor discussed gender identity in a children’s literature course. The controversy led to the firing of the professor, Melissa McCoul, and the removal of two department leaders. While Welsh did not explicitly say that the viral incident caused his resignation, many observers see a clear connection between the political pressure he faced and his decision to step down.
Members of the House Ways & Means Oversight Subcommittee held a heated hearing this week after a “Consumer Warning” report accused several nonprofit hospitals of using taxpayer-protected status to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), gender ideology, and climate activism rather than lowering costs or improving patient care. The hearing’s theme was “Virtue Signaling vs. Vital Services: Where Tax‑Exempt Hospitals are Spending Your Tax Dollars.”
The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, urging the justices to block an order mandating that passports be rooted in gender identity rather than biological sex.
A Texas A&M dean has been removed after they promoted material shared by a professor relating to transgenderism, prompting a student to raise concerns that the content violated the law.
