Tue Mar 1, 2022 – 6:16 pm EST
CHEYENNE, Wyoming (LifeSiteNews) – Republican lawmakers in the Wyoming Senate passed a budget amendment Friday that would eliminate funding for a pro-LGBT, Marxist-tinged gender studies program at Wyoming’s top public university.
The amendment requires the University of Wyoming, as a condition of state funding, to stop expending any “general funds, federal funds or other funds” for gender studies courses, academic programs, or extracurricular activities. The measure would impact 105 courses and 30 degree programs, in addition to any campus activities, according to legislator testimony.
The Wyoming State Senate has voted to terminate the University of Wyoming’s gender studies program. Well done, legislators! 👏 pic.twitter.com/FMmDmUZm6j
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 1, 2022
The senate approved the amendment in a 16-14 vote Friday, the Washington Examiner reported. Twelve Republicans and the chamber’s two Democrats dissented.
Republican state Sen. Cheri Steinmetz introduced the measure. On the Senate floor Friday, she slammed the radical Gender and Women’s Studies department at the University of Wyoming for “training activists” with taxpayer money.
Steinmetz pointed to the state-funded program’s far-left, pro-LGBT learning outcomes, which include “understanding historical and contemporary context in which
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