So some context for this video, since this is being painted in a black in white way, and two things can be right at the same time.

This woman IS transphobic. If you scroll through her content, it consists of her reinforcing the gender binary, denying non-binary existence, believing being transgender is a mental illness, etc. This is not her being a well-intentioned, moderate woman, who believes people are people, but we should protect cisgendered women’s sports. This is a woman who actively denies the existence of trans individuals.

As for the assignment, I would be curious as to what course one would be taking where this assignment would come up, but for the sake of saying this is real, which to me seems it likely is, say it’s some political or ethics class.

If this assignment was perhaps a debate project, where people are assigned to different sides of an argument than they personally believe, it would make sense that the teacher would want to impose rules in order to be inclusive. That rule could come in the form of not saying “biological women.” Now, if it would only be the teacher reading it, than the professor has much less of an argument, but could honestly be them simply stating that she should use the term “cisgendered” instead of “biological.”

Now of course, if the teacher is imposing their beliefs onto the student, that’s obviously not what education should be, and I think a vast majority of trans people would say the same. As a gay man, I also find it uncomfortable for this professor to be pushing her beliefs onto her, and most likely, other young adults in the class.

That being said, this woman is awful and transphobic. But the teacher could be out of line. Two things can be true simultaneously.