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Brian Harrison@brianeharrison · Mar 25, 2025

🚨The Texas government hosted a transgender conference at @UTAustin today... so, naturally, I snuck in. What I found…

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A social media user documented their visit to a transgender studies conference at the University of Texas at Austin, photographing various sessions, books, and materials related to gender and sexuality studies. The thread presents this academic and educational content through a critical lens, suggesting taxpayer money is being used to promote what they characterize as a radical liberal agenda.

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    🚨The Texas government hosted a transgender conference at @UTAustin today... so, naturally, I snuck in. What I found will shock you. The Texas Government is promoting a radical, liberal agenda... with your tax dollars. Read🧵below. Prepare to be furious.

  2. #2

    First thing I see on campus is a banner promoting "TRANSCENDENCE: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy"

  3. #3

    I found the agenda for Day 1, including at 11am: "Keeping Time: Queer-Crip Temporal Attunement Through Tarot"

  4. #4

    Walking in with the catering staff... I arrived in time to hear some of the presentation on "I Bore a Hell Within Me; a Narrative Femicide and Reproduction in Frankenstein."

  5. #5

    After listening to as much of that as I could handle, I began walking around campus. "Resources for Trans Folks" including "Medical Transitioning"

  6. #6

    Instructions on how to use pronouns.

  7. #7

    Is God a Submissive or a Dominant?? "Using the interrelationships between Jamäl-o-Jalal attributes in Islamic theology to reflect upon themes of pain-and-pleasure in kink/BDSM, Dr. Hag asks the question: is God a sub or a dom?"

  8. #8

    "TRANS CONVENING"

  9. #9

    Prominently displayed in a glass bookcase... Just... read the title.

  10. #10

    A library entrance

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    "My Hormones Make Me Moody" stickers

  12. #12

    Nothing to do with transgenderism, but just, what the hell...

  13. #13

    "Disability justice approaches to trans health..."

  14. #14

    "...ciscentrism, transmisogyny, colorism, and sizeism... biphobia, and transphobia gather around... combating transmisogynoir and queer phobia..."

  15. #15

    everywhere

  16. #16

    Pronouns everywhere

  17. #17

    The Gender Studies library is beyond words... "Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity" "The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights" And, while I did not read "If I Was Your Girl"... something tells me, he's not!

  18. #18

    Just... so... many...

  19. #19

    Anti-Trump coping...

  20. #20

    I did appreciate the honesty that with a four year $100k+ "Gender and Sexuality studies" degree... you'll still end up with an "entry-level" job.

  21. #21

    They answered the age old question of "What can I do with a Gender Studies Degree" Among the possibilities: - "Diversity Officer" - "Diversity Trainer" - "Professional Blogger" - "Government Reform Activist"

  22. #22

    training the next generation of gender activists...

  23. #23

    "Pride and Equity Faculty/Staff Association"

  24. #24

    Because, of course... a regular library just won't cut it...

  25. #25

    You can get paid to take a survey... only if you "IDENTIFY as Black"