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A Texas college has reinstated a professor who was reportedly terminated for teaching about the traditional, biological definition of gender. In a statement published Tuesday, the law firm First Liberty Institute announced that St. Philip's College adjunct professor Johnson Varkey has been reinstated after he was fired in January 2023 for rejecting aspects of LGBT ideology.The law firm filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission after the San Antonio, Texas-based historically black community college fired Varkey because the biology professor told his students that sex is determined by an individual's chromosomes. The professor was accused of...

A Texas biology professor is appealing to be reinstated after being fired following telling students that sex is based on chromosomes. According to a letter from First Liberty Legal Group, released June 20, biology professor Johnson Varkey was fired from St. Philip’s College in San Antonio after four students walked out of his class when Varkey said that sex is determined by chromosomes in November 2023. A January 10 email from Randall Dawson, the Vice President for Academic Success at St. Philip read, “I am sending you notification that Alamo Colleges District Human Resources department is in receipt of an...