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Texas Tech’s new limits on how faculty teach gender identity and sexual orientation challenge more than free speech

  • Written by Henry F. Fradella, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University
imageBanning students from writing theses and dissertations on sexual orientation and gender identity could be seen as curtailing students' freedom of speech rights.Malte Mueller/fStop/Getty Images

Texas Tech University, a public university in Lubbock, announced in April 2026 that its five schools would phase out all academic credentials centered on...

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