{"id":2524364,"date":"2025-12-23T15:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-is-healing-justice-finally-done-for-christian-student-who-was-failed-by-trans-ta-over-bible-based-gender-paper\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:18:47","slug":"america-is-healing-justice-finally-done-for-christian-student-who-was-failed-by-trans-ta-over-bible-based-gender-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-is-healing-justice-finally-done-for-christian-student-who-was-failed-by-trans-ta-over-bible-based-gender-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"America Is Healing: Justice Finally Done for Christian Student Who Was Failed by Trans TA Over Bible-Based Gender Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerica-is-healing-justice-finally-done-for-christian-student-who-was-failed-by-trans-ta-over-bible-based-gender-paper%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2524364&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A recent controversy at the University of Oklahoma involved a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-week-in-campus-insanity-vol-34\/\" title=\"This Week in Campus Insanity Vol. 34\">conservative student<\/a>, Samantha Fulnecky, who turned in a Bible-based essay critical of gender ideology and received a zero from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/victor-davis-hanson-are-universities-doomed\/\" title=\"Victor Davis Hanson: Are Universities Doomed?\">graduate teaching assistant<\/a>, Mel Curth (who uses she\/they pronouns). Fulnecky alleged religious discrimination; Curth&#8217;s feedback said the paper relied on personal ideology rather than empirical evidence and described some assertions as offensive. OU investigated and found the TA&#8217;s grading on that assignment to be arbitrary, concluding after review that the graduate teaching assistant would no longer have instructional duties. The episode sparked a heated social-media debate about academic freedom, bias in grading, and how universities handle conflicts over gender identity and religion, with commentators on both sides arguing different interpretations of the university&#8217;s decision. The article&#8217;s author frames the decision as holding instructors to higher standards while warning that tensions over transgender issues remain.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you pay any attention to societal discourse, you can clearly sense that the tide is shifting.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&rsquo;t that long ago that the perpetual victims of the far left were winning over hearts and minds when it came to the transgender issue.<\/p>\n<p>Not only were you not allowed to criticize the trans movement, but you were labeled a hateful bigot if you proffered even the lightest criticism of it.<\/p>\n<p>(This writer was, admittedly, a liberal in his youth. I can personally attest to this.)<\/p>\n<p>In other words, those trans activists had become the very &ldquo;fascists&rdquo; that they claimed to be fighting against.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Well, to paraphrase a famous line from Peter Jackson&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers&rdquo; film &hellip; it appears those trans fascists have no power here anymore.<\/p>\n<p>And what&rsquo;s transpired recently at the University of Oklahoma is a testament to that.<\/p>\n<p>OU came under a searing microscope when it was revealed that a transgender graduate instructor failed a conservative student&rsquo;s Bible-based paper about gender ideology.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/22\/us-news\/oklahoma-university-instructor-fired-for-flunking-students-viral-bible-based-essay-on-gender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>, student Samantha Fulnecky wrote the essay in November, expressing criticism of the rampant gender theory that had pervaded the zeitgeist.<\/p>\n<p>After the psychology course&rsquo;s instructor, graduate student Mel Curth &mdash; who goes by &ldquo;she\/they&rdquo; pronouns &mdash; failed Fulnecky, it kicked off a firestorm of allegations of religious discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>OU took this matter seriously and investigated the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, look what the school did after finishing the inquiry:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A statement from the University of Oklahoma: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FzcjByOjpp\">pic.twitter.com\/FzcjByOjpp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; University of Oklahoma (@UofOklahoma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UofOklahoma\/status\/2003209457195741653?\">December 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A student&rsquo;s claim of religious discrimination on an individual assignment in an online Psychology Course taught by a graduate teaching assistant has come to a resolution,&rdquo; the school announced just days before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>It continued: &ldquo;At the same time of the investigation, the Provost &mdash; the University&rsquo;s highest ranking academic officer &mdash; and the academic Dean reviewed the full facts of the matter. Based on an examination of the graduate teaching assistant&rsquo;s prior grading standards and patterns, as well as the graduate teaching assistant&rsquo;s own statements related to this matter, it was determined that the graduate teaching assistant was arbitrary in the grading of this specific paper.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The graduate teaching assistant will no longer have instructional duties at the University.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ouch. But not exactly undeserved, given what we know of the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#128680;Breaking News: The University of Oklahoma has announced that graduate instructor Mel Curth will no longer teach at the university of Oklahoma after she gave Samantha Fulnecky a zero on a final essay for citing the Bible <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MiA8tkh9CH\">pic.twitter.com\/MiA8tkh9CH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCalvinCooli1\/status\/2003255419494400086?\">December 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The New York Post reported: &ldquo;In her feedback to the student, Curth said that she neglected to address the prompt and relied more on &lsquo;personal ideology&rsquo; than &rsquo;empirical evidence.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She also said that Fulnecky&rsquo;s assertions were &lsquo;at times offensive.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To call an entire group of people &lsquo;demonic&rsquo; is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population,&rdquo; Curth added.<\/p>\n<p>(Personally, the fact that this TA used &ldquo;minoritized&rdquo; instead of &ldquo;marginalized&rdquo; should&rsquo;ve been grounds enough to be relieved of duty.)<\/p>\n<p>Look, I&rsquo;m generally of the opinion that nobody should celebrate someone being fired. But we should <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >absolutely celebrate holding teachers<\/a> to a higher standard, especially in this educational climate.<\/p>\n<p>However, make no mistake, pro-trans fascism is still festering. A cursory glance at the comments under OU&rsquo;s X post showed a number of highly liked, highly critical posts that all seem to miss the entire point of OU&rsquo;s decision. Posts like this one with over 39,000 likes:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">so in other words because the bible says so is now a winning essay? remarkable<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ivy (@IvyAstrix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IvyAstrix\/status\/2003245488200646836?\">December 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Notice the pro-trans crowd completely ignoring what the university actually said, as they typically do. Nowhere did the school say that Fulnecky&rsquo;s essay was a &ldquo;winning&rdquo; one. The university simply found that a teaching assistant appeared to bring in personal animus when it came to grading. That should be unacceptable, whether it&rsquo;s a trans TA or a Christian TA<\/p>\n<p>Look, I&rsquo;ve seen parts of Fulnecky&rsquo;s essay. It&rsquo;s not perfect by any means. But to give a flat-out zero on the assignment?<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s the kind of thing a capital-F fascist would do. 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