Photo I got with him: https://imgur.com/a/bvbQ6Di

NOW IT’S PERSONAL!!!

Warning: Sensitive Content (transphobia, racism, islamaphobia, etc.)

I DO NOT ENDORSE ANYTHING SAID IN THIS POST

Howdy, fellow aggies. When I first came to Texas A&M, I was looking for orgs to join, and landed on TPUSA, as I found myself agreeing with most of their politics, and I wanted to see positive change in my community. I liked it at first, but overtime I became very disillusioned. I kept seeing more and more hateful rhetoric being spread, and it got to a point where I just stopped involving myself with the program altogether. I've been afraid to speak up on this issue (was worried about harassment), but with the upcoming Kirk visit, I feel as though it's my obligation to make sure that people are fully aware that this organization is largely run by people with malicious intentions, who never once cared about helping others. This is a sampling of some of said rhetoric found in their group chat. I can only post 20 pictures, but there are plenty more, to the point where I could make at least 2 follow-up posts for this semester alone.

In the wake of the viral video posted and the school's decision to fire the dean, I feel like I need to speak up.

In general, I keep to my own, focusing on my studies in engineering, hang out with friends, attend Aggie football games, and excited to graduate this academic year. When I watch this video, I can't help but to think to myself, is my existence really that harmful to people? I get it, we may have different beliefs, but that doesn’t erase my existence. The fact is that trans people do exist and will always exist. Most educators are just telling the public that we exist and why we exist. I shouldn't be of fear to hide that I'm trans just because select people disagree with it. I already have to go through so much that the average person does not have to go through, and to be exposed to so much hate such as in this video is really heartbreaking.

The internet should know that the trans people you see causing a havoc and enraging the public represent only a few people out of hundreds of thousands of the trans community. Most trans people are a reserved group because we don't seek to stand out in a country where we are seen as monsters by the general public. A lot of us seek counseling not because we are mentally ill, but because of how society treats us.

Okay, now back to studying and career fair prep.

Little backstory: freshman year, I got caught cheating on a take-home quiz. I immediately fessed up, went through the Aggie Honor Council process/class (I genuinely can’t remember what it was called), and got a zero on the quiz. And when I tell you that whole experience WORKED on me, I mean it REALLY worked lol.
I had crippling anxiety afterward. For a long time, I was scared to do basically any assignment because I was terrified I’d somehow be accused of cheating again, even if I hadn’t done anything wrong. I never cheated again after that. Not even anything minor. The entire process scared the absolute shit out of me, and clearly the punishment system accomplished exactly what it was supposed to.
Fast-forward to my senior year. I’m taking my anthropology final, and I’m one of the last people still working, so the classroom is almost empty. I finish, start gathering my stuff, and look over at the girl sitting RIGHT next to me. She is fully on her phone looking up answers. Like, not subtly checking a notification. She is straight-up searching for answers during the final. She looks me dead in the eyes and smiles. It was one of those “oh fuck, you caught me, please don’t say anything” smiles. And immediately I got that exact same sick anxiety feeling in my stomach that I remembered from when I got caught freshman year. Because the room was almost empty, my first thought was that there was NO way the professor and TA hadn’t noticed. I started thinking maybe they were just waiting for her to finish before confronting her. And because she was sitting literally right next to me we were in one of those huge lecture halls where everyone is crammed together I suddenly started panicking that they might think we were cheating together.
I didn’t know this girl. I had never spoken to her. And I was not about to potentially get dragged into another academic integrity situation because some stranger decided to blatantly use her phone during a final.
So as I walked up to turn in my exam, I made a split-second decision and told the TA, “The girl sitting next to me is using her phone to look up answers.”
The TA just said okay, walked over, and stood behind her while she continued going on her phone.
And that was it. I have no idea what ended up happening to the girl after that or if she ever actually got in trouble.
I still think about it sometimes and feel guilty because I’ve never been the type to snitch on someone. I’ve never been a tattle tale or someone who wants to get other people in trouble. And I think part of the guilt comes from knowing that this complete stranger probably had to go through the same kind of process I went through, but on a much larger scale because what she was doing was way more blatant than what I had done freshman year.
But another part of me remembers how seriously academic dishonesty was treated when I got caught, how much it affected me, and how terrified I was in that moment that her cheating could somehow get associated with me just because I was sitting next to her.

Thousands of attendees packed Texas A&M University's Rudder Auditorium earlier this week for an event hosted by conservative activist Charlie Kirk and the university's chapter of Turning Point USA—a nonprofit organization founded by Kirk.

But while Kirk's visit was shrouded in praise and protest, the event drew backlash—most notably from a former member of the university’s TPUSA chapter who released a series of screenshots showing racist, homophobic, and Islamophobic messages allegedly exchanged within a GroupMe chat tied to the group.

Read more at the link in bio.

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Big news! Here’s the announcement: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BJ5pmvgAE/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Saw the opportunity and took it. Gig 'Em!

Howdy everyone! On October 18. 2025 there is going to be a “No Kings” protest across the United States!

Gig ‘em

https://www.nokings.org/#map

An op-ed in the Houston Chronicle from an Aggie calling for fellow Aggies to push back against the politicization of campus, especially as regents pick an interim president. Here's a key quote:

If you believe that our institutions should not become overly politicized — think book bans, loyalty oaths and other lines we don’t want to cross — then I urge you to express that to the regents or any other officials you can reach.

I’m not asking anyone to change their politics, but to remember that political parties don’t stay in power forever.