As a staff member at UT Austin, this glaring inconsistency is deeply troubling: While our university actively works to over-comply with censoring legislation like SB17, we’re hosting a conference featuring self-described eugenicists and promoters of long-debunked race science. Legitimate academic discourse on real actual history is being systematically erased while junk pseudoscience promoting racial hierarchies is given institutional space and legitimacy. The contrast is stark: While faculty colleagues report being pressured to alter course content to comply with SB17, our university appears to have no issue providing its venue for a conference featuring speakers who promote scientifically discredited theories of racial differences in intelligence and advocacy for eugenics. This raises serious questions that are impossible to reconcile: Why are we erasing discussions of race and equity from legitimate academic courses while hosting events that center on racial pseudoscience? How can we justify overcomplying with anti-DEI legislation while simultaneously providing a platform for a conference that explicitly promotes racial hierarchies? Will protestors who object to this event face the same brutal police response we saw during campus demonstrations last year? Academic freedom must mean protecting evidence-based inquiry from all political directionsnot censoring discussions of real actual history while giving institutional legitimacy to long-debunked “scientific racism.” Universities should be spaces for rigorous intellectual debate based on sound scholarship, not venues that legitimize harmful pseudoscience under the guise of “natalism” or “academic freedom.”