The doctor who got fired for refusing to refer to transgender individuals by their preferred sex has not only lost his job but also his legal battle against the Department of Work And Pensions.
As Christian doctor David Mackereth previously argued, he refuses to “call any 6ft tall bearded man madam” because of his strong religious beliefs.
After he got fired by the DWP, he launched a legal battle against them and accused them of taking away his “right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.”
Following the review of the case, the panel has decided that David’s views were “incompatible with human dignity” and that he was rightfully sacked.
The doctor has already announced that he plans on appealing the ruling.
“His beliefs were likely to cause offence and have the effect of violating a transgender person’s dignity or creating a proscribed environment, or subjecting a transgender person to less favorable treatment,” the tribunal allegedly concluded.
Lashing out at the judgment, the doctor, who refuses to acknowledge the chosen sex of transgender people, said:
“I am not alone in being deeply concerned by this outcome. Staff in the NHS, even those who do not share my Christian convictions, are also disturbed as they see their own freedom of thought and speech being undermined by the judges’ ruling.
“No doctor, or researcher, or philosopher, can demonstrate or prove that a person can change sex. Without intellectual and moral integrity, medicine cannot function and my 30 years as a doctor are now considered irrelevant compared to the risk that someone else might be offended.
“I believe that I have to appeal in order to fight for the freedom of Christians – and any other NHS member of staff – to speak the truth. If they cannot, then freedom of speech has died in this country, with serious ramifications for the practice of medicine in the UK.”
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