UT-Dallas is investigating a professor’s homophobic tweet with misinformation about monkeypox

The UT-Dallas Spirit Rock is painted in rainbow colors with a message reading “Here to Stay!” on July 18, 2022. LGBTQ students are calling on university officials to discipline a computer science professor who posted a homophobic tweet with misinformation about the monkeypox virus over the weekend. (Credit: Ben Torres for The Texas Tribune)

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Robert Aden Lonergan went to high school in Waxahachie and remembers a class in which students held a debate about whether transgender people should exist.