Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison sounded the alarm after he “snuck” into a state-funded transgender conference at the University of Texas at Austin on Monday, according to a string of posts on his X account.
“The Texas Government is promoting a radical, liberal agenda … with your tax dollars,” the Republican wrote on X, adding, “Prepare to be furious.”
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The first thing Harrison saw upon stepping onto campus was a promotional banner for “TRANSCENDENCE: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy, 1924-2024,” according to one of his posts.
“TRANSCENDENCE” is an art collection organized around seven themes, according to UT Austin’s Art Galleries at Black Studies curator Phillip A. Townsend: “Portraiture, Beyond Figuration, Dance and Movement, Spirituality, Sex and Sensuality, Black Queer Futures, and Altered States.”
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The art collection is on display at multiple exhibition locations at UT Austin until May 9.
Harrison said he walked around the campus, where he saw posters promoting “resources for trans folks,” how to be “inclusive of people’s pronouns,” and “Gender and Sexuality Center FYIs.”
Harrison also noticed Mia Fischer’s book “Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State” is “prominently displayed in a glass case.”
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UT Austin’s Rainbow Lounge is “a place for LGBTQ+ STEM students to connect and hang out,” according to a promotional flyer Harrison shared on X.
Harrison has been an outspoken advocate for defunding public Texas universities offering LGBTQ or “Sexualities Studies” programs. In a November 2024 interview on Inside Texas Politics, Harrison said, “If they have an LGBTQ minor, that is an abuse of taxpayer funding never authorized by the legislature and as far as I’m concerned, there have got to be consequences.”
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