Overview
- Philosophy professor Martin Peterson was told to remove sections from Plato’s Symposium on love and biological sex from his Contemporary Moral Issues syllabus.
- Department leadership delivered the directive under threat of reassignment or possible termination, according to reporting.
- Peterson publicly rejected the order as censorship, saying it undermines academic excellence.
- The nonprofit FIRE condemned the move, arguing that barring 2,400-year-old philosophy does not protect students.
- KBTX first reported the dispute, and Texas A&M had not responded to inquiries or announced any resolution at the time of publication.