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College instructor is fired over gender essay
Los Angeles Times
|December 25, 2025
The University of Oklahoma has fired an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a "belief in multiple genders" was "demonic.
SUE OGROCKI Associated Press r A FIRED University of Oklahoma instructor said a -, student's paper relied on ideology over evidence.
The university said in a statement posted Monday on X that its investigation found the graduate teaching assistant had been "arbitrary" in giving 20-year-old junior Samantha Fulnecky zero points on the assignment. The university declined to comment beyond its statement, which said the instructor had been removed from teaching.
Through her attorney, the instructor, Mel Curth, denied Tuesday that she had "engaged in any arbitrary behavior regarding the student's work." The attorney, Brittany Stewart, said in a statement emailed to the Associated Press that Curth is "considering all of her legal remedies."
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