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On October 15, 2025, the University of Texas at Austin’s Office of the Dean of FIREinformed Graduate Student Assembly president David Spicer that GSA could not consider two proposed resolutions because they were “political speech that is not permitted to be issued by a sponsored student organization in their official capacity,” citing the university’s institutional neutrality policy. The two proposed resolutions expressed opposition to the implementation of Texas Senate Bill 37 at UT Austin and the resulting elimination of DEI-related offices and programs. On October 30, FIREand the ACLU of Texas wrote UT Austin, explaining that the use of the neutrality policy to prohibit GSA from debating and voting on important social and political issues related to university governance prevents GSA from serving its role of communicating the views of graduate students to the university. It also undermines the purpose of an institutional neutrality policy adopted to further student expression on campus.