Adjunct who failed student for using term ‘biological women’ confirms story, plays the victim

Remember the University of Cincinnati student who was given a zero for using the term “biological women” on a paper about trans athletes competing in women’s sports?

Though Olivia Krolczyk never named her professor, this past week The Cincinnati Enquirer did — and scored an interview with her in the process.

Melanie Rose Nipper, an adjunct in the U. Cincinnati Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies department, confirmed Krolczyk’s “sequence of events” but added “her review of the [paper] idea and Krolczyk’s language was a routine element of her duties as a professor.”

In other words, “when a student uses ‘an outdated terminology'” Nipper (pictured) said “she feels it is necessary to correct those mistakes.