Texas AG Ken Paxton to investigate TCU’s handling of Turning Point USA event
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will investigate reports that Texas Christian University canceled an event planned by the school’s chapter of Turning Point USA, he said on social media.
Paxton’s move to investigate came after the event’s speaker, activist Chloe Cole, called the university out on social media Tuesday. TCU said the event was never booked with the univeristy and, therefore, was not canceled.
Cole is a detransition activist, according to her social media. She began to transition to male at the age of 12, but later reversed her transition at the age of 17.
After reversing her transition, Cole began to advocate for bans on gender-affirming care for minors.
In a post on X, Cole thanked Michigan’s Hillsdale College for hosting her event, calling the school “the first college to actually thank me for speaking on their campus instead of canceling me like TCU just did.”
Organizers originally wanted to hold the event on TCU’s campus as part of the tour Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk was on before he was shot and killed Sept. 10 in Utah, according to the Daily Wire.
TCU previously hosted Kirk on campus in the spring of 2023 and held a public vigil Sept. 18 after Kirk’s assassination.
Cole said that TCU’s student organizers had reserved a room on campus for the event and confirmed it was available at the requested time, but the university later denied them access, according to social media posts.
TCU says organizers didn’t book event space
University officials refuted Cole’s account via phone on Wednesday.
An external organization, along with Turning Point’s TCU chapter, planned the event and committed to the Oct. 7 date with the speaker prior to trying to secure a space for the event on campus, a university spokesperson said. Spaces on campus had already been reserved by other organizations for that date, TCU officials said. When members of TCU’s Turning Point chapter requested space for the event last week, the short notice and set date made it impossible to find a solution that would’ve allowed the event to be held on campus, university officials said.
“We explored options and notified the group on Sept. 25 that a secure space was not available given the short notice, but we offered to find another date or space for the event,” a spokesperson said. “TCU never cancelled this event as it was never booked.”
The event has been moved to Fort Worth’s Birchman Baptist Church, according to an updated flyer.
Representatives for Turning Point USA and its TCU affiliate could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.
The attorney general’s office did not immediately return a phone call from the Star-Telegram.
This story was originally published October 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM.
