"I would not call a boy a girl": Irish teacher suspended, later jailed for violating court order
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A teacher in Ireland was suspended for refusing to call a student by the preferred gender-neutral pronoun.
Enoch Burke who teaches German, politics and debate was later jailed for violating the court order that banned him from going to where he teaches.
Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath suspended Burke for refusing to call the transitioning students 'they', according to Daily Mail.
Local media reports said that the controversy started after Burk refused to address students changing gender pronouns with they/them/ their rather than he/him/his.
The students, their parents, and the school requested Burke to comply with the decision in May last year, reports said.
Burke stuck to his gun even after the schools' principal asked him to use the pronoun 'they", saying that calling students so was against his Christian beliefs.
Subsequently, the school board placed Enoch Burke on temporary paid administrative leave, which he breached by continuing to reaching the school.
Afterwards the school got a court injunction to bar him coming to school which he went on to violate saying that the order was against his conscience.
"I love my school, with its motto Res Non Verba, actions not words, but I am here today because I said I would not call a boy a girl," Burke was quote telling the judge.
Burke added that "Transgenderism" is against his Christian belief. It is contrary to the scriptures, contrary to the ethos of the Church of Ireland and of my school, he said.
