The White House wants to eliminate ‘gender ideology’ and ‘trans ideology.’ What does that mean?

A demonstrator holds a transgender pride flag during a President's Day protest near the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 17. Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Last week, the board of regents of the Texas A&M University System voted to forbid professors from teaching courses that “advocate race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity” without advance permission from their university’s president. It was the newest escalation in a running conflict that began when a student in a summer course on children’s literature recorded video of herself accusing her professor of going “against our president’s laws” by teaching “gender ideology” and declared that she was reporting the purported violation to the administration.

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