A University of Oklahoma student who received a 0 on an essay about gender roles and stereotypes has become a new totem for Turning Point USA and the MAGA movement.

The OU arm of Turning Point , the conservative advocacy group co-founded by the late Charlie Kirk, ignited the firestorm last week after Samanta Fulnecky, a 20-year-old student, claimed her failing grade was the result of religious discrimination.

The assignment, given in a lifespan-development psychology course, required students to write a 650-word response to an academic study exploring whether middle-school students who conformed to traditional gender norms were more likely to be popular or subjected to bullying.

“In her essay, Fulnecky argued that traditional gender roles should not be considered stereotypes,” Turning

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