Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) demands answers from Texas State University following recent reports of the university’s inclusion of LGBTQ-related curriculum in its academic offerings.
“According to the university’s 2025–26 catalog, courses in this area have directed students to examine how ‘communication sustains both discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and their resistance’ and to theorize on how to ‘create LGBTQ+ justice communication practices, cultures, and structures,’” Rep. Roy wrote in a letter to Dr. Kelly R. Damphousse, President of Texas State University.
“When a public university elevates LGBTQ+ ‘resistance’ and creation of ‘justice’ as learning outcomes rather than subjects for critical debate, it abandons education and embraces indoctrination. This is not neutral academic inquiry; it is taxpayer-funded activism. Such radical programming undermines viewpoint neutrality, betrays the principles Texas taxpayers expect their institutions to uphold, and blurs the line between education and political mobilization—turning classrooms into training grounds for ideological movements,” Roy explained further.
“While Texas State has recently removed COMM 3316I – LGBTQ+ Communication Studies from its catalog, the university continues to offer COMM 5329J – LGBTQ+ Communication, which ‘explores historical and contemporary developments in LGBTQ+ communication, rhetoric, and advocacy.’ Roy noted this continuation signals a broader problem of political activism being advanced under the banner of scholarship.
A PDF of the letter is available here.
