Texas Republicans cleared a major hurdle to pass a ban on child gender modification surgery and hormones after fierce resistance from Democrats and pro-transgender protesters. The vote mainly along party lines on May 11 came after five hours of debate on Senate Bill 14 that included multiple attempts by Democrats to water down the bill through…

Some conservative Texas lawmakers want to ban sexually explicit books in school libraries, even as the Biden administration seeks to punish a conservative-leaning Texas school district for removing them. Last month, the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights launched an investigation into Granbury Independent School District (ISD) for removing sexualized content from school libraries….

A North Texas school district’s vote to keep two sexually explicit books on the shelves has prompted a state lawmaker to file a bill to change state obscenity laws. Jared Patterson (R-Frisco) has worked with parents and watchdog groups to remove 28 book titles from libraries at Frisco Independent Schools since November 2021. After a…

Business school professors at the University of Texas at Austin have been advised to issue warnings to students in classes of potentially offensive and traumatizing curriculum content. Richard Lowery, associate professor of finance at UT-Austin, posted part of the syllabus template on Twitter on Aug. 10 questioning its relevance. “Behold our new syllabus template at…

Jen Psaki, White House press secretary on Tuesday confirmed that there have been breakthrough COVID-19 cases among vaccinated White House staffers that had not previously been made public. Psaki told reporters yes, “There have been, I will say that we, according to an agreement we made during the transition to be transparent and make information available. We…