Brian Harrison - TX State Representative Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, thanks to our next guest, a member of the
Texas A and M faculty lost her job, at least
seemingly was going to lose her job over some of
the things that she was doing. I'm trying to remember
State Representative Harrison. Was it things she was doing in
the classroom that caused all the hubbub refresh our memory?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, Jimmy, no, yeah, you Zach zer Wright got good morning.
Always great to be with you and all my friends
down in Houston. And yeah, this is the thing. And
let's back up two seconds. I mean, Texas has a reputation,
for me a small government, conservative state. But what in
the world is going on where all.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
These leftist market Marxist.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Transgender advocates had been hired as professors all across at
our public universities all across Texas and this one professor
in particular, she was forcing students to memorize, and I'm
not making this up, the gender unicorn in a children's
literature class, because she was literally teaching children and the

(00:55):
focus area for this class, by the way, field of
study for these college English students was three years to
twelve years old, and she was telling them in literally
slides I've read the materials that yes, children that age
three years old, that is not too young to talk
to them about queerness, gayness, transgenderism. This is what was
going on in.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
The classroom, and you raised got a brave student recorded it.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, and if the student recorded it, you raised the
alarm over at the president dismissed her as I recall,
and the department head is I recall? And now evidently
this is what didn't Well, yeah, he didn't want them,
he said. The president tried to cover it up. It's
one of the reasons I kept pushing and finally got
him fired too. Right, Well, now you have an interim president.
His name is Tommy Williams. I don't know where he

(01:38):
stands on any of these issues, but I know that
there's a Texas A and M faculty panel report that
claims that the professor's firing violated her academic freedom. I
didn't know that they had complete academic freedom to teach
whatever the hell they want to teach at Texas A
and M. I don't know what's going to happen with
Tommy Williams. Do you have a feel for where this
goes from here?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well, I haven't seen much good yet. I mean that
they're having meetings and discussing audits and this sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
But here's the bigger point.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
If Texas A and M has got this faculty advisory
committee and they believe that.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Because she was a professor, I got a professor fired.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
For indoctrinating and transgenderism, is tan't amount of violating academic freedom.
They probably shouldn't be employed either if they don't understand
the most basic concept that Texas A and M is
a public university paid for by the taxpayers. The men
and women driving to work right now. It's they're harder
and money that funds their fat salaries, and it's up
to the taxpayers. The people of Texas should get to

(02:35):
decide what's being taught at our public universities. And Gary Darntea,
the thirty million Texans aren't working their butts offs to
provide for their family, only to have their government steal
their money to weaponize it against them, their children, and
their values by indoctrinating in Marxist, progressive, transgender and ideology.
But that's what's apparently been happening for the last decade
or more here in the state of Texas.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, I know you'll be keeping an eye on it,
and if things do not work out through satisfaction, what
will be your next step.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
So what we should do and what I'm calling on
the governor to do right now, because I do these
universities have proven unwilling or unable to police themselves. So
I'm calling on Governor Abbott, who immediately right now, forget
the audit, forget the committees, forget the faculty advisory nonsense,
call a special session right now and pass one of
the many bills that I or even others have filed

(03:24):
to finally end all taxpayer funding of transgender indoctrination and
all DEI policies across all of our public universities and
state agencies. Here's the reality. We don't have to wait
for another election. We don't have to wait till next
session in twenty twenty seven. We don't have to wait
for these faculty audits. The governor could snap his fingers

(03:44):
and do one of two things. Order his regions to
end it all by the end of the week and
that would be done.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Or to call a special session so.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
We can protect taxpayers from having to fund transgender indoctrination.
And that's what I've been calling for on the governor
to do for the last two months.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Say if he was.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Serious about ending transgender.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Indoctrination and DEI call a special session.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Let us bang it.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh and by the way, while we're down there, let's
pass the bill to finally end property taxes too.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
That That's what I'm fighting for right now.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Thanks, sir, appreciate your time. As always, State Representative Brian Harrison.
It's five pint fifty seven.