The firing of a Texas professor and subsequent resignation of the university's president are illustrating a statewide battle on when and how LGBTQ topics are discussed on college campuses.

State lawmakers say what the Texas A&M lecturer did was illegal, opponents say academics are losing their free speech rights and at least one other college in the state is trying to preemptively avoid political fire by banning LGBTQ discussions in classrooms.

Brian Evans, president of the Texas conference of the American Association of University Professors, said the ousters are “very difficult to see because it creates a chilling effect for other faculty who want to make sure that their students have the ability to discuss the topics that the students want to discuss. So to have to play censorship, th

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