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Texas A&M professor files lawsuit after firing over gender identity lesson
Melissa McCoul alleges political pressure led to her firing after a gender identity lesson, seeking reinstatement, back pay, and damages in a federal lawsuit.
- 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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Red state university sued by ex-professor fired over gender identity lesson
Fired after gender identity lesson, professor sues Texas A&M, arguing her free speech rights were violatedby Jessica Priest, The Texas Tribune February 4, 2026Months after Texas A&M fired a professor over a gender identity lesson, she is suing the university, alleging administrators knowingly violated her free speech and due process rights to appease political critics.In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Houston, former A&M lecturer Melissa McC…
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Texas A&M professor files lawsuit after firing over gender identity lesson
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 has sued the school.
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