TCU's Pro-Abortion, Transgenderism, and Fornication Policies
TCU's Board of Trustees will meet next week. After a year of reporting on the rampant leftism, DEI, and gender ideology plaguing the school, we are hopeful that they will do the right thing, course correct, and save TCU from ruining its legacy.
Kids from all over the country come to TCU. We've spoken to hundreds of concerned parents, and a few trends emerge. First, they want their kids to get a quality education. Second, they want to send their kids to a red state to keep them from liberal indoctrination. Third, they want them to be in a Christian environment.
We've talked about the first two problems at length and many parents - potential donors to the school - are enraged. But, with the Board of Trustees meeting looming, we wanted to call attention to this third point, the Christian element, and make our readers keenly aware of the school's policies contradicting the Christian values they want TCU to embody. We hope that TCU will live up to its name and that the Trustees will make it happen. After reading this, please call and let them know how you feel.
TCU Supports Abortion
Departments within TCU have official partnerships with abortion advocacy groups, with the school's logo displayed next to their partners. You can see one example HERE. We've already mentioned that the department in this example, the Women and Gender Studies (WGST) Department, has used its social media to promote the Abortion Finder tool, a website that assists women in getting an abortion.
WGST even hosted a campus event with the abortion advocacy group Texas Equal Access Fund, the topic of which was the "evils" of crisis pregnancy clinics and how to fight against pro-life legislation.
In February of this year, one campus group, "Advocates for Reproductive Equality," hosted an event called "Planned Parenthood 101." The event included a "Sex Ed Loteria" game and included a talk "about services offered by Planned Parenthood, and how to get involved with reproductive advocacy."
The school's health clinic page tells students that the school will provide the abortifacient drug, Plan B, known for harming the women who take it, to both students above and under 18 years old, and will keep their parents from finding out. According to their website, prescriptions are available "for students ages 17 and younger, no prescription is necessary for women over age 18."
TCU's English Department has documents still available on its website advertising student internships with Planned Parenthood (yes, the English Department).
Professors can even hold leadership positions within abortion advocacy and abortion-providing organizations and remain in the school's good graces. Dr. Lynn Jackson is a WGST affiliate. In the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, she is the Director of Field Education and Assistant Dean for Strategic Initiatives.
Her areas of focus include "reproductive justice and abortion." A look at her CV proves this to be an understatement. Here's an overview of her abortion-related roles:
- President, National Network of Abortion Funds Board of Directors
- Vice President, National Network of Abortion Funds Board of Directors
- Texas Equal Access Fund Board of Directors Member
- Vice President, Texas Equal Access Fund
- Board of Directors Member, Planned Parenthood
Don't forget, as we've reported in the past, that the WGST Department has officially engaged in fundraising activities for their university partner, the Texas Equal Access Fund.
TCU Supports Transgender Ideology
TCU has made clear that they not only are supportive of transgenderism but will actively help students accomplish transitions.
The Health Clinic's "LGBTQ Sexual Health" page ensures the LGBTQs that identifying information will not be included on their student account. It even recommends that they pay with a card or cash to avoid services or prescriptions showing up on their student account.
Health Center and Counseling Center resources are clear that they will (anonymously) offer students contraceptive counseling as well as referrals for both "transgender care" and gender-affirming care.
Brown-Lupton Health Center advertises the following "LGBTQ+ Resources" as available to students: gender marker changes, legal name change resources, and gender-affirming care." Again, the school is clear that every one of these services can be hidden from parents.
They even provide an all-gender bathroom map for transgenders to locate bathrooms of their choice.
Transgender students are even offered an exclusive resume and job search resource that counsels them on how to sue companies that question their "gender identity."
Sexual Morality
As a Christian school, you may hope that TCU promotes a Christian sexual ethic. Maybe your standards are lower than that, and you at the very least hope that they would avoid teaching sexual ethics that go directly against Christian teaching. Unfortunately, you would be wrong.
TCU's campus recreation page includes a "sexual responsibility" page which notes that "College is a place where many students choose to explore their sexuality" and offers tips on how to do just that. The page encourages students to use protection "unless in a long-term, monogamous relationship with a partner who has been confirmed STD-free." Note that nothing about marriage is included.
The school's website goes further, telling students that "everyone makes a personal decision about when they are ready to have sex; some relationships are casual and short-term while others are long-term." TCU goes further to say that "the possibilities are endless, so have fun with it!"
You may remember our report from last week that WGST affiliate and Christian Ethics professor Santiago Pinon even invited a "sexologist" to advocate for non-monogamy and to discuss whether the man or the woman should pay for the abortifacient and dangerous drug, Plan B.
Not only is TCU not promoting Christian morality here or even avoiding the subject altogether. Instead, they're fully committing to an anti-Christian morality. Texas Christian University will not only promote promiscuity, not only will they actively help students engage in it, but they will also hide it from the parents who largely sent their children to TCU specifically to get away from that environment.
Call to Action
Trustees and administrative officers for the school have expressed concerns over ending these various issues, claiming that it would threaten their accreditation. To start, this couldn't be further from the truth. State schools manage to retain accreditation despite legal prohibitions from the Texas government on many of these fronts.
Let's grant them the premise that taking the required actions to right the school's path was impossible under the Biden Administration. Trump is our President now. Not only is TCU now safe to avoid punishment from the federal government for doing the right thing, but the Trump administration is now threatening to pull federal funds from universities that do not do the right thing.
Trustees have a fiduciary duty to the school. Given the Trump Administration's recent actions, and the desires of many alumni, donors, and parents of prospective students, it would be in the financial interest of the school to address these problems. Now is the time.
If you know any of the trustees (you can find a list of them HERE), please call them and politely tell them what's happening at their school. They're busy people, so it's entirely possible that they aren't aware of everything TCU is engaging in.
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