Texas State University’s Center for Diversity and Gender Studies offers instructional materials on a number of far-left subjects, including minors in African-American Studies; Diversity Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Latina/o Studies.
The center describes its offerings as “academic courses that help prepare students to work and live in a pluralistic society.”
In addition, “The director of the Center works in collaboration with an advisory council of faculty, staff, and students representing several Texas State colleges and departments” to “encourage the infusion of multiculturalism in the curriculum.”
Its values include a “diversity of people and ideas” and “a spirit of inclusiveness.”
A closer inspection revealed the type of multiculturalism injected into classroom instruction.
The center’s Diversity Studies minor requires students to take Introduction to Global Diversity Issues. In this course, students “examine how colonialism shaped developed and underdeveloped nations,” and “investigate grassroots activism in response to globalization.”
According to the fall 2025 syllabus, this course includes a “struggles and movements” unit that will specialize in “[h]uman rights, gender equity,” and “climate change.”
The Diversity Studies minor also requires students to choose from electives such as Gender and Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective; Rhetoric, Race, and Memory; and Chicana/o/x Narrative and Social History.
The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies minor requires students to take an introductory course with the same name. One of the course readings is “Beyond the Binary: Thinking about Sex and Gender.”
The book’s description on Amazon reads, “From the Bible to Darwin, from Enlightenment thinkers to contemporary trans philosophers, Beyond the Binary offers an accessible survey of the wide range of views about sex and gender” and “offers new material with a greater focus on trans, Indigenous, racialized, and subaltern thinkers.”
Additional topics for classroom discussion in this introductory-level course include “Purity Myth/Purity Balls,” “Ideal Mothers/Trad Wife,” and “MILFS and Matrons.”
The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies minor also requires students to choose from electives such as Black Queer Experience, Queer and Trans Texts, or History of American Sexualities.
The African American Studies and Latina/o Studies minor programs contain dozens of examples of similar content.
Senate Bill 37, a measure passed by state lawmakers and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott during the 2025 regular legislative session, specifically grants university boards of regents increased jurisdiction over academic minors. Those provisions of the law take effect on January 1, 2026.
The Center for Diversity and Gender Studies also promotes a library with nearly 1100 titles, including books such as “Asian American Sexual Politics,” “Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness,” “Devils, Women, and Jews,” and “Global Gay: How Gay Culture is Changing the World.”
The director of the Center for Diversity and Gender Studies, Dr. Gloria Martinez Ramos, “is an active member of the National Diversity Scholars Network from the National Center for Institutional Diversity.” She has previously won an Excellence in Inclusion and Diversity Award.
The center was founded in 1984.
Texas State University is part of the Texas State University System, which is overseen by a board of regents that is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Texas Senate.
Texas State University did not respond to a request for comment before publication.
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