Alevi students' longstanding discontentment regarding compulsory religious education has become an important human rights issue in Türkiye. Although many theologists, political scientists, and legal scholars have conducted research on this subject, studies addressing the issue through curriculum and teaching practices are limited. This study seeks to examine the experiences of 12 Alevi university students in the province of Nevsehir who attended Türkiye's compulsory Religious Culture and Ethics course within the context of religious identity and gender from a multidimensional perspective. Participants included six female and six male students. Data were analyzed along the axis of gender. The findings highlight institutionalized discrimination through curricula and teaching practices in different dimensions. According to the findings, teachers' attitudes and behaviors on the axis of religious identity included discrimination and hatred, with participants being subjected to both verbal and physical violence. Alevism topics in the content of the course book were either not dealt with or were considered superficially or on the axis of imposition/discrimination. When the experiences of Alevi participants were investigated in terms of gender, it was determined that both female and male students reported being restrained, although the extent differed by gender. While female students were pressured to adopt an obedient attitude amid fear and tension, male students were controlled by heavy accusations and disciplinary punishments, even as they resisted them. Participants' experiences with RCE teachers demonstrate that teachers' perception of the Alevi religious identity intersected with the social perception of gender. Alevi participants experienced cross-cutting discrimination based on religious identity and gender.