Young America's Foundation, or YAF, has sent what PJ Media calls a "scathing" complaint to the Department of Education alleging continuing violations of students' free speech rights at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The private university’s main campuses are in Daytona Beach, Florida and Prescott, Arizona. It offers instruction at more than 130 locations worldwide, many of them military bases. YAF is asking the DOE to open a formal investigation into the university and to order an end to the school’s free speech abuses. The complaint accuses Embry-Riddle of "a blatant attempt to silence the voices of its own students" with a "unilaterally decreed totalitarian speech ban." The ban reportedly targeted pro-Israel activism and things related to the sanctity of life and transgender topics. “A lot of people maybe have heard of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University because it has a great history of training generations of pilots and mechanics and other people that are critical to the aviation industry,” said Spencer Brown, head of communications with YAF. Embry-Riddle has gained a second less flattering reputation. “They’ve been infected with this leftist, woke, radical, DEI, radical transgender ideology, all this other stuff, just like so many of the larger schools people might think of normally,” Brown said. A few of the reported things the school blocked included a "Biology Basics activism project" intended to counter the lie at the heart of transgenderism. Additionally, YAF was stopped from handing out flyers to promote a speech by transgender surgery opponent Chloe Cole. It also says Embry-Riddle stopped a "Where Does Life Begin?" project showing the various stages of fetal development to show students the reality of life in the womb. But, Embry-Riddle supported the "Trans Day of Visibility," and other activism pushes from the left. Brown said his team is taking advantage of the "very welcome" changes that Trump and his administration have made. “These executive orders have empowered and enabled the Department of Education and its Office of Civil Rights to ensure that universities and colleges and other institutions in the country are adhering to the policies that were sorely needed at this point.”