US EditionTexas A&M professor files lawsuit after firing over gender identity lesson
Melissa McCoul alleges termination was politically motivated to appease critics, seeking reinstatement and damages for alleged First Amendment and due-process violations.
- Melissa McCoul, the former Texas A&M lecturer, sued Tuesday in federal court in Houston, alleging administrators violated her First Amendment and due-process rights and seeking reinstatement and damages.
- A secretly recorded video posted on X by State Rep. Brian Harrison, R-Waxahachie, led Republican pressure and Gov. Greg Abbott's chief of staff urging university leaders to deny McCoul a hearing before termination.
- The lawsuit details alleged breaches of the university’s required dismissal procedures, including ignoring a review council of faculty members that found McCoul’s due process rights violated.
- The Texas A&M University System ordered an audit of approximately 5,400 courses that recently led to six canceled courses and the ending of the women’s and gender studies program.
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Ex-professor sues Texas A&M over firing
HOUSTON — A Texas A&M University professor who was fired last year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children's literature lesson about gender identity is suing the school, alleging the university violated…
Ex-Texas A&M prof sues over her firing
HOUSTON — A Texas A&M University professor who was fired last year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children's literature lesson about gender identity is suing the school, alleging the university violated…
Ex-professor sues Texas A&M
HOUSTON — A Texas A&M University professor who was fired last year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children's literature lesson about gender identity is suing the school, alleging the university violated…
Professor sues Texas A&M after firing over gender identity lessons in children’s lit class
English professor alleges her free speech and due process rights were violated An English professor sued Texas A&M University this week, alleging the public institution violated her right to free speech when it fired her for teaching gender ideology lessons in a children’s literature class. In the federal lawsuit, filed Wednesday, lecturer Melissa McCoul also alleges the university… Source
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