The Texas Tech University System directed a sweeping closure of academic programs centered on sexual orientation and gender identity. Chancellor Brandon Creighton’s memo to the system’s five institutional leaders sets course policy requiring recognition of only two human sexes and prohibits endorsement of a gender spectrum or fluid gender identities as empirical biological science. Texas Tech must submit by June 15 which degree programs, majors, minors, and certificates it plans to eliminate, with admissions freezes expected after the review. The memo also says current students will be allowed to complete their programs. The action follows similar course-content and program review activity across Texas higher education. Texas A&M previously reviewed more than 5,000 courses and canceled six, while faculty faced required edits tied to the system’s new policy limits on race and gender-related content. The Texas Tech system’s decision increases uncertainty for students and faculty while raising broader governance questions for public universities operating under rapidly changing state policy demands.