Doctor Sacked Over His Belief That Gender Is Determined At Birth

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A Christian doctor has been fired from a top government role over his belief that gender is determined at birth.

Dr David Mackereth, who has worked as an NHS doctor for 26 years, was deemed ‘unfit to work’ after he said he would refuse to identify patients by their preferred gender.

The senior doctor was told he could not be employed as a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) disability assessor if he refused to identify patients as being of a sex that they did not see themselves as.

The Telegraph reports: The 55-year-old father of four believes sex is genetic and biological, so established at birth.

He now claims his right to freedom of speech has been denied and he has been classed “unfit” to work for the department because of his religious convictions.

And, the medic from Dudley in the West Midlands fears many other professional people of faith could also be dismissed simply for holding opinions about gender that are “centuries old”.

Dr Mackereth, who registered as a doctor in 1989 and spent most of his career working in Accident & Emergency wards, said: “I’m not attacking the transgender movement. But, I’m defending my right to freedom of speech, and freedom of belief.

“I don’t believe I should be compelled to use a specific pronoun. I am not setting out to upset anyone. But, if upsetting someone can lead to doctors being sacked then, as a society we have to examine where we are going.”

Dr Mackereth, a Reformed Baptist, started a training course in May to become a health and disability assessor for the DWP. His role would have meant interviewing and then writing independent reports about the health of those claiming disability benefits.

However, when his instructor stated that reports must only refer to the patient – or “client” – by the sex that person identified themselves as, a discussion took place among the medics about the “fluid” nature of gender, Dr Mackereth claims.

“I said that I had a problem with this. I believe that gender is defined by biology and genetics. And that as a Christian the Bible teaches us that God made humans male or female. I could have kept my mouth shut. But, it was the right time to raise it.

“The tutor took me aside and said he had passed my comments up the chain to the DWP.”

Dr Mackereth then received an email from Advanced Personnel Management (APM), the agency that employed him and would have hired him out to the DWP.

They explained he could undergo training about the department’s policy, but the DWP had consulted lawyers and was adamant that any report or contact with clients should refer to them in their chosen sex otherwise it “could be considered to be harassment as defined by the 2010 Equality Act”.

The doctor replied that “in good conscience” he could not conform to those demands, and so the contract was terminated between them.

He said: “Firstly, we are not allowed to say what we believe. Secondly, as my case shows, we are not allowed to think what we believe. Finally, we are not allowed to defend what we believe.

“By stating what has been believed by mankind for centuries – namely that gender and sex are determined at birth – you can come under ferocious attack.

“If we are no longer allowed to say that you believe sex and gender are the same and are determined at birth, everyone who holds my views can be sacked on the spot under this Act. I’m not an isolated case.”

6 Comments

  1. Proves again we are in an upside down society or world, for telling the truth will get you punished, and lying and cheating and misleading will get you advanced in one way or another. What you see today will be considered child’s play tomorrow. Great job sir great job sometimes doing the right thing can be very costly.

  2. look hes just the very tiny narrow tip of the iceberg of their legal totalitarian takeover of the world to make the legal profession as the master race above all religions , even satanism .In the past they would have burned him as an heretic or locked him up in bedlam for daring to defy their Authority Their Supremacy over mere mortals .They haven’t changed Democracy forced them to act like they are nice They’re not They’re still the same class or circle or Set, of people / personalities that would love , just love to be able to burn him at the stake For their Acts of protection of community health and safety.

    • Secular humanism, I believe they describe as that ‘religion’ at that level through society. You just have to look at the people on news paper and such comments that argue against homogenous society, and protect internationalising their demographics (communism iow), then wonder where morality went in relationships and why there are new stis (actually a deflection away from the point that sterility is being caused through stealth gmo, etc food)

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