A university is pulling its transgender-focused training event after the state’s governor made it clear that he will not stand for it.
The story first came to light thanks to LibsofTikTok, which exposed an email from the University of Nebraska at Kearney advertising a voluntary “How Can I Move From Supporting to Empowering Trans-spectrum Students?” workshop. According to the email, the event would “provide strategies and tools to help create a more inclusive classroom for transgender students” by showing attendees “how making small, inclusive adjustments to communicating with students will help them feel more comfortable, perform better academically, and grow personally.”
Look:
EXCLUSIVE
University of Nebraska at Kearney (@UNKearney) wants faculty to attend a meeting where they’ll be taught about Empowering Trans Students and creating a DEI-inclusive classroom.
This university receives our tax dollars
So sick of this trash pic.twitter.com/nS2m5cjxSm
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 27, 2026
The post caught the attention of Nebraska’s Republican Governor, Jim Pillen, who warned that such shenanigans may result in the school’s funding being cut.
This nonsense is completely irrelevant and destructive to the University of Nebraska’s teaching mission, and out of touch with the values of the state it serves. University leaders must immediately root out this and all other similar programming across the entire system.
If the… https://t.co/f82WP7W8oV
— Governor Jim Pillen (@TeamPillen) April 28, 2026
“This nonsense is completely irrelevant and destructive to the University of Nebraska’s teaching mission, and out of touch with the values of the state it serves. University leaders must immediately root out this and all other similar programming across the entire system. If the University cannot police its own ranks and rid itself of the woke disease that has degraded so many ‘elite’ higher education institutions, it risks investigations, cuts to its funding, and, most importantly, the loss of the confidence of the people it serves,” he wrote.
It didn’t take long for the university to react by pulling the module, which Pillen celebrated on X.
Look:
Following my post last night, the University of Nebraska at Kearney took down the objectionable content.
That is good news.
I — and others in Nebraska and around the country — will continue to hold our higher education institutions accountable, keeping them true to the law and… https://t.co/w8qpEpTkhM
— Governor Jim Pillen (@TeamPillen) April 28, 2026
“Following my post last night, the University of Nebraska at Kearney took down the objectionable content. That is good news. I — and others in Nebraska and around the country — will continue to hold our higher education institutions accountable, keeping them true to the law and the values of the people they serve,” he said. “The mission of education in America is not the advancement of woke indoctrination — it’s to grow critical learners and thinkers prepared to become the next generation of leaders and business builders. That’s the mission, and we cannot allow Nebraska institutions to be distracted from it.”
X users were skeptical of the win, suggesting the school may just be rebranding it for the future:
They just will rebrand it and continue to push DEI initiatives.
— AMSPI (@all73032) April 28, 2026
No, they just hid it better.
— VagabonJoe (@vagabonjoe) April 28, 2026
They may have removed it but don’t believe it. They won’t stop.
— Voodoo Udo (@UdoVoodoo14321) April 28, 2026
Removed or renamed?
— John Kaufmann (@Rumdrinks4all) April 29, 2026
