Joshua Sutcliffe, a secondary school teacher who was recently fired from their position at a school in Oxfordshire following an investigation into transphobic behaviour has announced that they will be suing their former employers.
Mr Sutcliffe claimed that he accidentally misgendered a student on one occassion, and immediately appologised for doing so, however, it has been reported that this was the last of several incidents in which he misgendered the same student, despite being informed not to.
After the event the students mother complained to the school, informing them that Mr Sutcliffe had misgendered her son on numerous occassions, calling him a girl in front of other students.
Mr Sutcliffe told the school's senior staff that he personally didn't see any harm in calling a transgender boy a girl, but did not intentionally do so in order to remain professional.
The school suspended the Maths teacher in order to conduct an investigation into these claims, and later chose to fire him after reaching the conclusion that this was not an isolated incident, and that he had 'contravened the school's equality policy' and 'demonstrated discriminatory behaviours'. As such, his employment was ended.
During the investigation Sutcliffe complained to the press, stating that he believes it was against his human rights to make him call a trans student by their correct pronouns, and that the school was pushing a 'liberal, leftish agenda', calling the school's equality policies 'totalitarian'.
Following his dismissal Mr Sutcliffe has written to the school to inform them that he intends to take legal action against them.
In a statement released today by the Christian Legal Centre, who are supporting Sutcliffe's case, said that Sutcliffe had not received the correct training.
'The child had self-declared as 'male', but Mr Sutcliffe, who had been given no formal instruction on how he was to refer to the pupil, said 'well done girls' in her presence.' The statement said. 'When the pupil became irate, Mr Sutcliffe sought to diffuse the situation and apologised.
'Nonetheless an investigation began, during which time Mr Sutcliffe was prevented from teaching and forced to spend all his time in isolation in the staff room. Following the week long investigation, the school found Mr Sutcliffe to have 'misgendered' the pupil, 'demonstrating discriminating behaviours' and 'contravened the school's equality policy'.'
The Christian Legal Centre previously released a statement on the case before Mr Sutcliffe's firing in which is referred to anti-discrimination policies as 'silencing' and 'punishing' teachers.
'This is one of a large number of cases we are encountering where teachers are finding themselves silenced or punished if they refuse to fall in line with the current transgender fad.' The chief executive Andrea Williams said.
Mr Sutcliffe has yet to comment on this announcement of legal action against the school.
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Soon as the word Christian is mentioned, it's time to break out the cannon and pull the trigger. Religion is just an excuse to be a bigoted, racist, homophobic, transphobic, utter bastard. Fraid it doesn't wash with me.
ReplyDeleteChristians especially the American evangelical kind operate as gate groups. The are just as bad as Isis.
ReplyDeleteOrganised religion is the problem. They teach hate and murder. Yet expect us the tax payers to finance their hate. Tax the churches.
Religion should be taught in the home and not in school. That is the problem now. Religion wants it's hands in school and politics. I have nothing against religion but keep it separate from the others. This is 2017 not 1017.
ReplyDeleteI am transgender and I support the teacher here. It is a basis of free will. How is it our expressionism should be forced as the normal or baseline for those who view definition of gender based upon sex. And to the above comment, I am proud to be transgender and Christian. Also republican. Please stop pushing your religious ideology and political agenda as transgender. Because it is not. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteumm no there is NO right to discriminate, if your religion discriminates against lgbt people get a new religion
DeleteUnknown claims to be trans,Christian,AND REPUBLICAN? Haha haha no. I call bullshit.
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