A University of Oklahoma student got a zero on an essay about transgender rights after describing “the belief in multiple genders” as “demonic.” The student filed a discrimination complaint, alleging that the failing grade was based on her religious beliefs. The essay went viral, the instructor who gave the grade has been placed on leave, and a debate is raging about the quality of the work and views expressed in it. Never in the history of failing grades has a zero done so much to burnish the