Texas conservatives are targeting the Gender and Sexuality Center
Since last year, a student-funded center at the University of Texas at Austin has offered counseling, workshops, forums and other services to gay, lesbian and female students.
Now some Texas conservatives are targeting the Gender and Sexuality Center, saying UT students shouldn't have to pay $80,000 a year in fees for a center that "promotes a lifestyle" a majority of Texans reject – particularly when parents are struggling to afford college costs.
"They're obviously trying to promote an agenda on one side of the political spectrum," said Will Lutz, a columnist who wrote a scathing piece on the center for the socially conservative Texans for Texas group. "What we've created is a government-funded advocacy group for values a lot of Texans don't agree with."
Within the next year, conservative groups say they plan to draft legislation that would require the center to be paid for by private sponsors instead of student fees.
A grass-roots campaign to lean on the UT System's governor-appointed Board of Regents to nix a budget including the center has already begun. The regents have ultimate approval over the student-fee budget, although it's drawn up by the students themselves.
anyone else want to send a check once the regents do away with funding for the center?