"Emails seen by Daily Nous allegedly order the university to "remove the modules based on race ideology and gender ideology and the Plato readings that may include these". The readings impacted by the instruction are from Plato's Symposium, specifically from Aristophanes' account of the origin of love and Diotima's ladder of love, both of which address love between people of the same sex."
"The Board of Regents updated its rules in November, to state that courses may not "advocate race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity", following a controversy involving a professor Melissa McCoul at the university who continued to teach a children's literature course that former president of Texas A&M University Mark Welsh stated "contained content that did not align with any reasonable expectation of standard curriculum for the course"."
"The updated rules have been criticised by Peterson for censoring professors and limiting academic freedom, with Peterson stating that the readings were connected to a lecture on sexual morality, and that "these topics are commonly covered in this type of course nationwide"."
Martin Peterson, a Texas A&M philosophy professor, was instructed by administrators to remove Plato readings that address same-sex love from his course. Department chair Kristi Sweet directed cuts so the class would comply with new university policies on race and gender discussions. The targeted passages are from Plato's Symposium, including Aristophanes' origin-of-love myth and Diotima's ladder of love. The Board of Regents updated rules in November prohibiting courses from advocating race or gender ideology or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity. Peterson contends the restrictions censor academic freedom and that such material is standard in sexual morality lectures nationwide.
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