AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter Wednesday to the state’s higher education leaders instructing them to ignore revisions to a federal anti-discrimination law that would extend protections to LGBTQ+ students.
The governor’s letter about Title IX went to the chairmen and regents at Texas A&M University, Texas Southern University, Texas State University, Texas Tech University, Texas Women’s University, University of Houston, University of North Texas and University of Texas as well as Texas’ community colleges. These are all positions appointed by Abbott and approved by the Texas Senate.
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“The law passed by Congress was based on the fundamental premise that there are only two sexes — male and female,” Abbott wrote. “President Biden wants to force every school across the country to treat boys and men as if they were girls and women and to accept every student’s self-declared gender identity, exceeding his authority as President in order to impose a leftist belief on the next generation.”