An outright ban on any teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity! As philosopher Alex Byrne observed on Twitter:
Want to write your thesis on the fraternal birth order effect? (Gay men tend to have more older brothers.) Nope. “Graduate theses and dissertations may only center on SOGI topics as a strictly temporary teach-out exception, explicitly limited to currently enrolled students.” Want to study Rach Cosker-Rowland’s book on Gender Identity? How about classic psychological works that invoke gender identity, e.g. Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of gender development?



Carlos Alberto Sánchez’s A Sense of Brutality: Philosophy after Narco-Culture (Amherst College Press, 2020) is a finalist for the 2026…