Christian doctor from the UK who lost his job over his objection to preferred pronouns said it was important for Christians and health care workers to stand up to transgender ideology in the workplace.
A Christian doctor, who was fired for refusing to use transgender pronouns with patients, says his case is not an isolated one and urged other medical professionals and people of faith to “stand up” and “affirm truth” in battles over gender ideology.
Dr. David Mackereth, 60, lost his job as an emergency room doctor in the United Kingdom in 2019, after practicing medicine for 26 years. He had objected to using a hypothetical patient’s preferred pronouns in a training exercise.
“I told them as a Christian in good conscience, I couldn’t do that,” Mackereth told Fox News Digital. His refusal eventually led to his dismissal.
His employer declared that failing to use a patient’s preferred pronouns would fall under “harassment” under the U.K. Equality Act of 2010 and fired him.
The doctor said he would never treat a transgender patient different than any other patient but to him it was a matter of honesty.
“If we are introducing a fundamental principle of dishonesty into medical practice… that has a very big impact on the quality of our health care,” he told Fox News Digital.
After his firing he filed a lawsuit against his former employer for religious discrimination but lost his claim before the Employment Tribunal just three months later. The Tribunal ruled his biblical beliefs on gender were “incompatible with human dignity.”
“If Christianity isn’t protected by the Equality Act here in the United Kingdom, then surely the Equality Act is worthless,” Mackereth said.
The anti-discrimination law claims to protect citizens from being harassed or discriminated against for their religious beliefs, gender identity and other characteristics.
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