A transgender, a man portraying himself as a woman, who was teaching at the University of Oklahoma has been taken out of the classroom and the regents have been ordered by Gov. Kevin Stitt to make certain students are not being punished for their faith.

This all after a rant from the professor, Mel Curtis, that condemned the student’s references to the Bible and faith, and instead insisted she should adopt the teacher’s ideologies.

The governor’s reaction: “The 1st Amendment is foundational to our freedom & inseparable from a well rounded education. The situation at OU is deeply concerning. I’m calling on the OU regents to review the results of the investigation & ensure other students aren’t unfairly penalized for their beliefs.”

The 1st Amendment is foundational to our freedom & inseparable from a well rounded education. The situation at OU is deeply concerning. I’m calling on the OU regents to review the results of the investigation & ensure other students aren’t unfairly penalized for their beliefs.

— Governor Kevin Stitt (@GovStitt) November 30, 2025

The university said the “graduate student instructor has been placed on administrative leave pending the finalization” of an investigation.

The situation was profiled by a chapter of Turning Point USA:

For a psychology course at the University Oklahoma, Samantha Fulnecky was asked to write a 650-word essay reacting to an article about how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender.

In her essay, Fulnecky argued that traditional gender roles should not be… pic.twitter.com/R3J4FaGEtw

— TPUSA_OU (@TurningPointOU) November 27, 2025

The organization explained, “For a psychology course at the University Oklahoma, Samantha Fulnecky was asked to write a 650-word essay reacting to an article about how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender. In her essay, Fulnecky argued that traditional gender roles should not be considered stereotypes. She cited the Bible to support her stance that eliminating gender in society would be ‘detrimental’ because that would put people ‘farther from God’s original plan for humans.’

“She received zero points out of 25 on the essay. Transgender professor, Mel Curtis, said Ms. Fulnecky, failed to use empirical evidence/and called parts of her essay offensive. ‘To call an entire group of people ‘demonic’ is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population,’ the instructor wrote in the online grading platform. Fulnecky says she followed the assignment guidelines and should not be penalized for her religious viewpoints. OU officials point to the formal grade-appeal process as the student awaits a decision.

“We at Turning Point OU stand with Samantha. We should not be letting mentally ill professors around students. Clearly this professor lacks the intellectual maturity to set her own bias aside and take grading seriously. Professors like this are the very reason conservatives can’t voice their beliefs in the classroom. Kuddos to Samantha for leading by example and standing up for what she believes in.”

A report from Not the Bee said the TPUSA posting was viewed by tens of millions of people in just days.

The assignment was to read an essay on “gender” and respond with a reflection.

“Fulnecky decided to respond by arguing that the erosion of ‘gender’ roles in society is the problem, and that articles like the one for the assignment are attempting to do that. Instead, she said, what we call ‘gender’ norms are simply the outworking of God’s design for men and women,” the report said.

The student said, “God made male and female and made us differently from each other on purpose and for a purpose. God is very intentional with what He makes, and I believe trying to change that would only do more harm.”

Further, she wrote, “Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth.”

Curth claimed that the gender ideologies being pushed are “the result of countless years developing psychological and scientific evidence for these claims and directly interacting with the communities involved.”

Sex and gender Curth claimed, are “neither binary nor fixed.”

Not the Bee responded to Curth’s claim about sex and gender, “Not only is this false, but it is also a fallacious appeal to authority that is based entirely on the ideological idea – born from Marxist and leftwing thought reaching back to Rousseau and beyond – that humans are malleable widgets without a defined nature or ‘instruction manual.'”

And the report explained, “The fact that the ‘expert’ class has used their expertise to lend scientific validity to this religious belief system does not mean that it is any more empirical than Fulnecky’s Christian faith that teaches that God made us male and female in His own image (Genesis 1:27).”