The director of a California college’s Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education says she was terminated after she began questioning the school's antiracism "orthodoxy," declined to join a "socialist network" and refused to use the term "Latinx."

De Anza College, a community college in Cupertino, California, allegedly retaliated against Tabia Lee after she objected to multiple campus inclusion policies.

She told Inside Higher Ed that she lost her job after she objected to the college’s land acknowledgments for an Indigenous tribe, attempted to bring a "Jewish inclusion" event to campus, declined to join a "socialist network," refused to use the terms "Latinx" and "Filipinx" and questioned why the word "black" was capitalized but not "white." 

"I no longer participate in gender pronouns because I find that the same toxic ideologies around race ideologies are now being advanced under gender ideologies; I also find that the constant obsession with pronouns and declaration of pronouns causes deep discomfort for individuals who identify as gender-fluid or who struggle with gender dysphoria," she said.

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Lee also allegedly disrespected a founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the outlet.

A colleague had accused Lee, who is Black, of "white speaking," "whitesplaining" and supporting White supremacy.

And while Lee has not yet filed a lawsuit against the college, she says she is not ruling out eventually doing so.

The college, however, has pushed back on the allegations, with district chancellor Judy Miner writing in a letter obtained by Inside Higher Ed that Lee's termination was based, in part, on her "[p]ersistent inability to demonstrate cooperation in working with colleagues and staff" and an "unwillingness to accept constructive criticism."

The school's Tenure Review Committee voted Tuesday not to re-employ Lee as a contract employee for the next academic year. She has been employed by De Anza College since 2021.

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"In all of the teacher education things I’ve done and been exposed to in more recent years, there are lots of ideologies being pushed—lots of time a single one, but no one names what it is," Lee said. "I was told that [I] was supposed to only advance what at that time I was calling a third-wave antiracism ideology."

Lee says she received backlash shortly after starting her job in August 2021. She said her Tenure Review Committee was reconstituted when she filed a grievance after being informed she would not be recommended for continuance prior to the committee handing down the decision.

"While the main or initial harasser resigned at the end of the 21-22 school year, the damage was already done," Lee said. "One of his mentors—the same individual who invited me to the socialist network and accuse(d) me of disrespecting [Black Lives Matter co-founder] Alicia Garza—was seated on my Tenure Review Committee until she was removed as part of a grievance settlement. But her longtime friend, the dean of equity and engagement remained seated on the phase II committee and the games continued."

Lee's termination came shortly after she published an essay on Feb. 28 in the "Journal of Free Black Thought on Substack.

"Under the banner of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts, in many learning environments a neo-reconstructionist race(ist) orthodoxy has emerged that actively works to suppress and exclude alternative frameworks, methods, ways and means for dealing with American education's race(ist) problem," Lee wrote.

"Presently in many American schools, third-wave neo-reconstructionist ideologies of racial equity that are rooted in faulty remakings and re-interpretations of race and racism are fomenting perpetual race(ist) struggle and are dangerously directing the scope of mainstream educational research, discourse, and practice," she continued.

De Anza College did not immediately respond to a request for comment from FOX News Digital.

Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill to prohibit drag show performances from being presented in places where they could be viewed by children.

The GOP-backed legislation passed through the Senate on Friday by a 26 to 6 party-line vote. Senate Bill 115, which Republicans say is aimed to protect children, would also ban drag shows from publicly owned property.

"The intent of this legislation is to restrict these types of adult performances to adults," said Republican state Sen. Lindsey Tichenor, the bill's lead sponsor.

Democratic Sen. Karen Berg argued that people who do not support drag shows are not required to attend.

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She said drag is a form of self-expression for LGBTQ+ groups that "you don’t have to understand, you don’t have to appreciate, you don’t have to like and you don’t have to attend."

Drag shows have been criticized across the country by parents and Republican lawmakers who say the performances are sexualized and inappropriate for children. In Tennessee, GOP Gov. Bill Lee recently signed a bill into law banning public drag performances by classifying them as adult entertainment, putting them in the same category as topless dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers and strippers.

The Kentucky bill states that adult performances include a live performance involving male or female impersonators appealing to a "prurient interest in sexual conduct" that lacks "serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value."

Those who violate the measure would be subject to misdemeanors for the first two offenses and would be hit with a felony for subsequent offenses. Under the bill, businesses hosting the drag shows could have their alcohol and business licenses suspended or revoked.

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Tichenor acknowledged the long history of male and female impersonators, and pointed to late actor Robin Williams' portrayal of a woman in the film "Mrs. Doubtfire."

"This bill is not in any way addressing those types of performances," she said.

She said the bill was introduced because performances previously limited to adult audiences are now presented to the general public as appropriate for all ages.

Opponents of the bill claim it challenges constitutional protections and targets the LGBTQ community. 

Democratic Sen. Cassie Chambers Armstrong said First Amendment protections extend to the "expressive choices we make." She said this includes the clothing people wear and the way they choose to present themselves to the world.

Chambers added that there are numerous existing laws to combat sexually explicit activity in public places.

The bill now heads to the House, where Republicans also have a supermajority, with only a few days remaining in the year's 30-day legislative session.

"What is hateful about keeping children away from sexualized adult performances?" Tichenor said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.