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February 15, 2023

Irish teacher’s religious objection to gender affirmation backed by the science

February 15, 2023

Enoch Burke was originally suspended from his role as a secondary school teacher at Wilson’s Hospital School in Ireland for refusing to recognise a student as having changed their gender rather than their biological sex, and not submitting to an instruction to refer to that student by the pronouns “they/them” and using their new name.

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