University of Oklahoma (OU) students are demonstrating in solidarity with a transgender graduate student who was suspended from their role as teaching assistant for a psychology class over a student’s dubious claims that she received a failing grade due to her Christian beliefs.

The assignment in question was supposed to be a reaction to an academic article on gender. But the paper written by junior Samantha Fulnecky failed to provide empirical evidence or even citations for her own beliefs, resulting in her failing grade.

The essay was turned in on November 9. The teaching assistant — whose name Truthout is withholding due to privacy and harassment concerns — gave Fulnecky a 0 out of 25 points , stating that the student’s editorializing was not accompanied by an evidence-based appro

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