The University of Houston still includes gender ideology in its job application, even as other government agencies drop it from government websites.
An investigation by The Dallas Express showed that job listings at UH have “They/them/theirs, ze/hir/hirs, ze/zir/zirs, [and] prefer not to say” listed as pronouns options.
This comes just days after Libs of TikTok posted to X on February 27, “Sent to us by a follower. The University of Houston Law Center (@UHLAW) online applications provide a list of insane made-up genders. Any public institution pushing gender ideology should have their funding cut.”
The posting included an undated photo of what appeared to be a UH Law Center application that showed “Androgyne, Demigender, Female, Genderqueer or gender fluid, Male, Non-transgender man, Non-transgender woman, Prefer not to say, Questioning or unsure, Transgender man, [and] Transgender woman,” as options.
DX tried to replicate the photo for verification by filling out the online application. However, unlike the above-referenced photo, the application did not have a gender section during our attempts; instead, it had a blank space in the middle of that portion.
No gender section appeared to be included in any part of the application where this information would be most relevant, such as the biographical or demographic sections.
These revelations come on the heels of federal and state advances against woke ideology.
In a memo sent to federal agencies just days after Trump took office, President Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management directed agency heads to strip “gender ideology” from federal websites, contracts, and emails. The memo also directed agencies to disband employee organizations and replace the term “gender” with “sex” on government forms.
Similar action has been taken on the state level.
Gov. Greg Abbott recently issued an Executive Order titled GA-55 that prohibits Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies in “all state agencies.”
State legislators such as Rep. Nate Schatzline (R-Fort Worth) have introduced numerous bills to permanently ban DEI at the county and city level, DX reported.
The Dallas Express contacted the UH President’s office for comment. A media relations spokesperson responded “Yes. We have made some changes. We have a standardized application that is used by law schools around the country. When we were made aware of some of the fields that had been added, we asked that those fields be removed from the UH Law Center application because it’s not relevant to our admissions criteria.”