(NewsNation) — The University of Oklahoma has suspended an instructor after a student filed a complaint saying the grade she received on an essay citing her interpretation of the Bible was a violation of her rights.

In November, junior Samantha Fulnecky was assigned a 650-word essay for a psychology class to react to an article about how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender.

According to The Oklahoman, Fulnecky wrote in her essay that traditional gender roles should not be considered stereotypes and cited the Bible to support her stance that eliminating gender roles in society would be “detrimental” because that would put people “farther from God’s original plan for humans.”

She received a zero out of 25 on the essay.

The instructor, a graduate assistant at OU, said Fulnecky did not follow the assignment’s instructions and called parts of her essay offensive, including Fulnecky’s argument that “Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic.”

“To call an entire group of people ‘demonic’ is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population,” the instructor wrote on online grading platform Canvas.

After receiving the grade on the essay, Fulnecky reached out to the course’s professor and asked for reconsideration of her grade. When the professor said no, she reached out to Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, OU President Joseph Harroz Jr. and the Teacher Freedom Alliance, led by former state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters, asking for help.

She then filed a formal complaint with the university along with a grade appeal, USA Today reports. Fulnecky also told The Oklahoman that she believes it was “absurd” that she was “clearly discriminated against for her beliefs.”

In a post on social media platform X, Stitt agreed with Fulnecky and said she was discriminated against for her religious beliefs and called on the university to investigate.

On Sunday, OU confirmed the instructor has been placed on administrative leave.

The debacle also drew the attention of the university’s Turning Point USA chapter, which wrote a post in defense of Fulnecky, saying they “stand beside her.”

“We should not be letting mentally ill professors around students,” the post read. “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.”

Fulnecky is set to make her first public appearance since her essay and the instructors’ responses went viral on Dec. 3 at an event for the OCPAC Foundation, a conservative think tank that promotes Christian principles and culture.