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University of Oklahoma Instructor on Leave After Religious Bias Complaint

Is this religious discrimination against a Christian student, or a student's failure to abide by assignment requirements?

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University of Oklahoma Instructor on Leave After Religious Bias Complaint

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Above: A sign on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, on Dec. 1, 2024. Image credit: Kirby Lee/Getty Images

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Right narrative

This is the right decision after a Christian student, who was clearly failed for expressing widely held biblical views on gender in a psychology essay, was exposed once again that conservative students face discrimination from biased professors who punish religious beliefs rather than grading academic work fairly. The instructor's own transgender identity created a clear conflict of interest that resulted in religious persecution.

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Left narrative

This student failed an assignment because she refused to engage with the assigned reading and instead submitted a poorly constructed argument without providing any empirical evidence. Conservative activists weaponized this legitimate academic failure to attack a trans instructor and manufacture another fake persecution narrative. This is a bad-faith, manufactured culture war issue from the right.

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