A student claimed a professor gave her a zero on a college project for using the term "biological women."
Twenty-year-old Olivia Krolczyk, a sophomore at the University of Cincinnati, received a failing grade in her Women’s Gender Studies in Pop Culture class for use of an "exclusionary" term despite the professor admitting her project was "solid," the New York Post reported.
Her project focused on the changes female athletes have dealt with throughout the years and involved the fight of female athletes like Riley Gaines against the inclusion of biological males in sports.
Krolczyk said her conclusion was that "these rights and opportunities are being threatened by allowing men to compete in women’s sports."
"Olivia, this is a solid proposal," the professor wrote. "However, the terms ‘biological women’ are exclusionary and are not allowed in this course as they further reinforce heteronormativity." The professor said she would revise the grade once changes were made.
The school said it was reviewing the incident according to its policies.
Krolczyk said she's heard from numerous students online who face similar consequences for opposing left-wing views, the Post reported:
The Ohio native also claims hundreds of other students across the nation have contacted her about similar occurrences since she shared her video on TikTok.
"I can confidently say within my university and many across the country, dissenting opinions are frowned upon and the views of the professors are affecting their abilities to teach," she proclaimed.
"Regardless of what the course is, and what the assignment is, a professor assigning a zero on something that was turned in on time and is of high academic value is extreme."
Krolczkyk said political ideologies being injected into universities is turning young Americans off wanting to go.
"There are more and more people avoiding college, or finding the cheapest possible options simply because universities are losing their respect as educators and are building the reputation as indoctrinators of ‘wokeness,’" she said.
It's the latest example of leftist politics in the nation's schools. Last month, a senior at City University of New York went on a now-viral tirade against Israel during the school's commencement ceremony. Columbia Law students faced immense backlash earlier this year for visiting Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh, and students at George Mason University demanded Republican governor Glenn Youngkin (Va.) not be allowed to speak at their graduation ceremony.