On June 21, 2018, statements against the UST LGBT community were circulated in Twitter and Facebook. The statements originally came from the school regent, Fr. Boy. The tweet noted that the school 'understands' LGBT rights, but tasked all presidents of all student organizations within the university to "take down" pro-LGBT statements, especially if those statements involved the words, 'LGBT' and 'Pride month'. The statements garnered massive backlash against the university in social media, with almost 4,000 disapprovals and around 1,100 retweets in less than two days. The order of the school regent was also defied by numerous UST organizations, in continuation of the "UST Rainbow Protest". In July 2018, the university and its Catholic priests banned all forms of cross-dressing within its campus. The university also deemed that students who have same-sex relationships shall face “non-readmission, exclusion or expulsion”.