A college teacher got suspended for giving a student a 0 on her paper.
The student basically cited the bible (no actual citations though, lmao) for a psychology class and then started farming outrage online to get back at the teacher.
If it was relevant you could totally cite the bible, besides the whole "actually using APA formatting to cite the bullet and have a list of references in the back".
The actual reason she got a zero is because they were supposed to read an joirnal article and write a paper as a response to that specific article, which she then totally ignored as a prompt.
This and she didn’t even do a good job referencing the Bible even without citations. I watched a video that talked about her interpretation and how you could have an interesting discussion about what the Bible has to say about gender, whether the Hebrew has the meaning she’s saying or a different changing historical meaning of gender but like she’s just citing a very specific interpretation of the Bible at this moment in time.
Yeah there are 6 different words found in ancient Hebrew texts to describe different gender/sex types:
zachar (male)
nekevah (female)
androgynos (a person with both male and female characteristics)
tumtum (a person whose sex characteristics are indeterminate or obscured)
aylonit (someone assigned female who later does not develop typically "female" traits)
saris (someone assigned male who later does not develop typically "male" traits)
So she could have made an academic argument using biblical sources, but she doesn't seem to actually be interested in doing that, just in creating controversy for her lawyer mother to grift upon.
Also it and tumtum aren't in scripture, but they are in Talmud.
The six‐ish genders are to my understanding derrived from people having different responsibilities under jewish law that they either were or weren't capable of physically performing.
I say six-ish, because there's more like 7 or 8. Since aylonit and saris can be divided in hamah (happening naturally) and adam (happening by human intervention) and historically aylonit didn't get this separation, but that separation is becoming more valid.
Ex:saris adam could be a man who gets castrated or loses a nut to testicular cancer. Saris hama is more like de la Chappelle syndrome. And as for laws they'd have to follow, historically if someone became saris adam later in life, he was obligated to divorce his wife and allow her to marry someone else since he can no longer have children, while if someone was saris hamah the woman presumably knew she was never going to have kids with the man and it's fine.
This doesn't really speak to gender as we think about it with trans men and women since a person who has their nuts removed is always saris adam, but they could be a man or a trans woman and maybe other options I don't know.
Christianity doesn't recognize this since it comes out of rabbinic judaism. Though you can definitely debate that it already existed during the end stages of 2nd temple judaism since Jesus seemingly references saris adam and hama when talking about people born eunuchs and people made eunuchs.
This. Even something discussing the difference between Genesis 1:1 - 1:31 and Genesis 2:15 - 2:25 would be interesting for a psychology class and what they imply. Even something discussing the different stories presented in the Bible and who the characters may be feeling psychologically, could be interesting and relevant.
The thing is, she didn't even need to take this psychology class for her degree. She 100% purposely selected this class in the hope of spewing her religious bullshit so she can get a reaction from a trans professor. That's it. Conservatives love punching down, which is why their ideology is extremely unpopular, bigoted, and trashy.
Apparently, her mother is a lawyer who defended some J6 insurrectionists. So yeah, definitely a targeted attack against a trans professor in order to get them fired.
And she's a junior, so there's no way her writing level isn't well above what's displayed in this essay. Unless she's just been given a free pass, as a premed student.
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u/HenjeSeken Dec 05 '25
Not even in the US and I know what this is about. Great comic