In Oklahoma students seems to have set their professor up for a lawsuit.
Although the student did not properly complete the assignment to academic standards, the university is investigating the teacher.The AdvocateBy Christopher WigginsDecember 02 2025The University of Oklahoma has placed a trans graduate instructor on administrative leave after a student received a zero on a psychology assignment that described transgender people as “demonic” and asserted that gender roles are “Biblically ordained.” The dispute has quickly escalated into a statewide political flashpoint.The controversy began when junior Samantha Fulnecky submitted a 650-word reaction paper for a course on how social expectations shape gender. Instead of addressing the assignment’s questions using data, her essay claimed society is “pushing lies” about gender, warned that eliminating strict gender roles would be harmful, and described transgender identities as “demonic,” Them reports.
He wasn't the only one to review the paper...
A second instructor, Megan Waldron, independently reviewed the paper and agreed that it did not satisfy the assignment prompt or basic academic writing expectations.
Now tell does that sound like a set-up? The class is...
Course Name: PSY 2603 - Lifespan Development (A course in the Department of Psychology)Course Description: A survey of psychological changes... changes in cognitive, social, emotional, and physiological development from conception to death will be included.Assignment Type: Reaction essay to a scholarly article (on gender typicality, peer relations, and mental health).
"...scholarly article..." Did you catch that? A "...scholarly article..." but what the student turned in was a a diatribe a religious dogma.
The New York Post reported that,
The psychology course’s professor, graduate student Mel Curth, who uses “she/they” pronouns, failed Fulnecky on the grounds that she neglected to address the prompt and relied more on “personal ideology” than “empirical evidence,” according to a bombshell thread shared by the university’s Turning Point USA chapter.In her essay, which was supposed to cover “how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender,” University of Oklahoma student Samantha Fulnecky presented a biblically fueled tirade against the notion that there are multiple genders.The psychology course’s professor, graduate student Mel Curth, who uses “she/they” pronouns, failed Fulnecky on the grounds that she neglected to address the prompt and relied more on “personal ideology” than “empirical evidence,” according to a bombshell thread shared by the university’s Turning Point USA chapter.In the essay, Fulnecky repeats ad nauseam that she doesn’t take issue with gender stereotypes because “that is how God made us.” However, she neglected to cite the article she was responding to, save for a vague reference to “teasing as a way to enforce gender norms.”The psychology course’s professor, graduate student Mel Curth, who uses “she/they” pronouns, failed Fulnecky on the grounds that she neglected to address the prompt and relied more on “personal ideology” than “empirical evidence,” according to a bombshell thread shared by the university’s Turning Point USA chapter.In the essay, Fulnecky repeats ad nauseam that she doesn’t take issue with gender stereotypes because “that is how God made us.” However, she neglected to cite the article she was responding to, save for a vague reference to “teasing as a way to enforce gender norms.”
And here is the kicker... Them writes,
Turning Point’s posts about Fulnecky and Curth sparked a firestorm on social media over the weekend, as some conservatives — including Fulnecky’s mother — admitted they were targeting Curth because she is trans. Turning Point’s original post about Curth accused her of being “mentally ill.”“Individuals who identify as trans should be automatically disqualified from holding any position as teacher or professor,” wrote Canadian anti-trans activist Chris Elston, aka “Billboard Chris,” on X last week; “Agreed! Proud of my daughter!” wrote Kristi Fulnecky, Samantha’s mother, in a reply. (Fulnecky is an attorney who previously represented January 6th rioter Christopher Joseph Quaglin.) Oklahoma state Rep. Gabe Woolley, a Republican who calls himself a “former member of the LGBTQ community,” similarly called for Curth to be barred from higher education and repeatedly misgendered her in a series of X posts last week.
Pink News reported...
Trans graduate assistant Mel Curth has been removed from her position at the University of Oklahoma after a Christian student complained a failing grade she received in a psychology essay – because she cited the Bible rather than empirical evidence – was a violation of her right to free speech.By Sophie PerryDec. 2, 2025As first reported by The Oklahoman in November, junior Samantha Fulnecky said she was asked to write a 650-word essay reacting to an article about how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender.Fulnecky said in her essay that traditional gender roles should not be seen as stereotypes and cited the Bible as evidence, stating that removing the concept of gender from society would be “detrimental” because it would put people “farther from God’s original plan for humans”.[...]In her feedback to the assignment – screenshots of which were shared by the university’s chapter of Turning Point USA on X in a post that derided Curth – the graduate assistant explicitly told Fulnecky she was “not deducting points because you have certain beliefs” but because her work “does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive”.
Once again... no references!
Fulnecky’s mother, Kristi Fulnecky – who has defended those involved in the 6 January Capitol riot in court – agreed, writing: “Agreed! Proud of my daughter!”
Her mother is a lawyer who has worked on anti-trans cases and other right-wing cases!
Does this seem like a set-up?
