Nah, this is not what professional academic feedback for a 650 word project should look like. The entirety of the feedback for a tiny piece of writing (that most of the class will have ChatGPT write for them anyway) should have been:

“0/10 does not address the question.”

Anything more than that should not have been written by the TA. The TA is absolutely not being paid enough to write such lengthy feedback, and it isn’t a TA’s responsibility to deal with formal appeals. This whole thing was mismanaged by the tenured academics and administrators and should have never happened, and now they’re scapegoating the poor TA.

Material that is hazardous to online reactionaries needs to be discussed extremely carefully, and treating the students like royalty with lengthy bespoke feedback for baby’s-first-writing-project is just inviting disaster. Criticize them about their transphobia in-person during office hours or a small classroom setting where you can yell at them to put their phones away. Do not write that shit in the fucking chat window on moodle or blackboard where students can screenshot and post it to the toxic algorithmic apps that they actually pay attention to during their spare time instead of doing the fucking assigned readings.