A professor in Texas taught his students that “human sex is determined by chromosomes X and Y, and that reproduction must occur between a male and a female to continue the human species.” He was then fired after several students complained about him. But has lodged a complaint the school, as we read in Life Site News:

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 continue the human species.”

He further explained, “When a sperm (which has 23 chromosomes) joins with an egg (which also has 23 chromosomes), a zygote (which has 46 chromosomes) is formed, and it begins to divide, and after 38 weeks, a baby is born. Because no information is added or deleted in those 38 weeks, life starts when the zygote begins to divide, not when the baby is born.”

On November 28, four students walked out of his class after Varkey stated sex was determined by chromosomes X and Y. While the college refused to provide details, Varkey assumes that it was these students’ complaints that resulted in his termination.

A January 10 email from Randall Dawson, the vice president for academic success at St. Philip, read, “I am sending you notification that Alamo Colleges District Human Resources department is in receipt of an ethics violation complaint from JBSA-Lackland, related to your facilitation of the BIOL 2402 class, during the Flex II Fall 2022 term.”

Varkey responded by asking exactly what the violation was, but Dawson didn’t respond.