Zinski told WSET News, “I got to a point where I felt like, ‘Okay, enough people are treating me with kindness and with God’s love. I feel like I can do this.'”
“It was just anxiety. Every single day, I remember just checking my emails and seeing if I had any correspondence at all, and every day there was nothing. It was anxiety-inducing,” Zinski added.
Zinski claimed to have identified as transgender before being hired at Liberty University but said that the university believed it was hiring a man, due to Zinski’s “name and appearance.”
“I hope that standing up to Liberty will show that they cannot do this to anyone else,” Zinski said. “I don’t want anyone to ever have to experience what I did.”
Page 10 of the Liberty University employment manual reads:
“Sinful acts are prohibited by God and include but are not limited to: worship of idols or gods other than the Lord God of the Bible; denying Jesus Christ as eternal, as God’s son in flesh, as resurrected, as Creator, as Lord or as Messiah who died for the sins of all people; rejection of Jesus Christ or rebellion against God; blasphemy; participation in devil worship, practice of the occult, astrology, fortune-telling, sorcery, or witchcraft; taking of innocent life; denial of birth sex by self-identification with a different gender; married persons sexually or romantically coupling with a person other than their spouse; sexual relations outside of marriage between one natural-born man and one natural-born woman; romantic coupling among persons of the same sex; prostitution; orgies; rape; drunkenness; use of profanity and vulgarity; injustice; making false statements; dishonest sales and exchanges of money; thievery; fits of rage; and illegal activity.”
ChurchLeaders has reached out to Liberty University and will update this article in the event of a response.
This article as been updated to reflect what is stated in the Liberty University’s employee handbook.
