Wed Aug 2, 2023 – 5:18 pm EDT
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — A Texas professor filed a complaint against his employer for violating his freedom of religion and speech by firing him for teaching that gender is defined by chromosomes.
On July 21, Johnson Varkey, a former biology professor at St. Philip’s College, filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint against the college for dismissing him from his position after students complained that he taught in November 2022 that sex is determined by chromosomes.
“If not for my beliefs about gender, sexuality, and human life, I would not have been fired,” the complaint argues. “Thus, religion was clearly a but-for cause — and a motivating factor — of my termination.”
Varkey, represented by First Liberty Legal Group, revealed that the college refused to explain why he lost his position, but the decision came directly after four students walked out of his class during a lecture on the human reproductive system.
As a professor at the college for 20 years, Varkey routinely taught that “human sex is determined by chromosomes X and Y, and that reproduction must occur between a male and a female to
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