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After the election of United States President-elect Donald Trump in 2024, protesters at Texas State University carried signs reading “Women are property” and “Homosexuality is sin.”

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Texas State officials said the protesters were not affiliated with the university.

On November 6, 2024, the day after former U.S. President Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, photos appeared on social media showing two protesters at Texas State University in San Marcos wearing misogynistic and homophobic signs reading “Women are property” and “Homosexuality is a sin.”

Images of the offensive signs quickly spread across social media, including in posts. on And Reddit. Snopes readers wrote in to ask if the signs were real.

They were.

Texas State’s student newspaper, The University Star, published a photo gallery showing two protesters with offensive signs surrounded by at least 100 counter-protesters, some of whom held signs reading “Jesus loves you all,” “Jesus values ​​and respects the women of the state of Texas” and other messages. According to the student newspaperthe protesters were not affiliated with the university. Instead, they were members of the Official Street Preachers, a news organization that “covers world and local events from a Christian perspective“.

Outrage over the signs led the university president Kelly Damphousse to write a letter to the university community condemning this hate speech. Damphousse noted that Texas law requires public universities, like Texas State, to “make outdoor public spaces on campus open to so-called ‘expressive activities,’ even by outside groups.” which none of us agree with.

Some Texas State alumni left comments on social media posts noting that this was not the first time the group had appeared on campus with provocative and hateful signs.

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